Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 29
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April 29: Queen's Day in the Netherlands (2006), Greenery Day in Japan, International Dance Day.
- 1770 - James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour made their first landfall on Australia.
- 1882 - Ernst Werner von Siemens (pictured) began operating his "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus.
- 1916 - Khalil Pasha of the Ottoman 7th Army accepts the surrender of the British Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force ending the battle and Siege of Kut in World War I.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler dictated his last will and testament to his secretary in the Führerbunker, and then married Eva Braun in a brief ceremony.
- 1992 - The acquittal of policemen who had beaten Rodney King sparked civil unrest in Los Angeles.