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Events on April 29

• 1770 On his first voyage to the South Seas, British seafarer and explorer James Cook reaches the east coast of Australia and lands at Botany Bay in present-day New South Wales.
• 1882 Werner von Siemens demonstrates an electrically powered horsecar on a 540-meter-long test track in Halensee near Berlin. The so-called Elektromote is the world's first trolleybus.
• 1913 A patent application is filed for the numbered dial for telephone devices (“dial”), developed by Siemens & Halske and still occasionally used today.
• 1945 During the Second World War, Dachau concentration camp is liberated by a battalion of the 7th US Army, making it the penultimate concentration camp to be liberated.
• 1945 Shortly after midnight, Adolf Hitler marries his longtime secret mistress, Eva Braun, in the Berlin Führerbunker. The witnesses are Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann.
• 1956 The Axel Springer AG publishing house publishes the first edition of the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
• 1968 Following an off-Broadway preview, the musical Hair premieres at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway in New York. The book and lyrics are by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, and the music is by Galt MacDermot.
• 1972 The first German gay demonstration takes place in Münster, Westphalia.
• 1995 In Cottbus, the first Federal Garden Show in the territory of the new federal states opens to visitors.
• 1997 Just under five years after its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly, the Chemical Weapons Convention enters into force. It prohibits the development, manufacture, possession, transfer and use of chemical weapons.
• 2007 German handball clubs win all the European cup competitions: SC Magdeburg Gladiators win the EHF Cup, THW Kiel the EHF Champions League, and HSV Hamburg the European Cup Winners' Cup.
• 2011 In London's Westminster Abbey, Prince William and Catherine Middleton marry, with Catherine being granted the title of Duchess of Cambridge on this occasion.

Born on April 29

• 1854 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and theoretical physicist
• 1863 William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and media mogul
• 1901 Hirohito, Japanese emperor
• 1922 Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician
• 1931 Lonnie Donegan, British musician
• 1940 Jürgen Schumann, German pilot
• 1951 Dale Earnhardt, American auto racing driver
• 1952 Barbara Hendricks, German politician
• 1970 Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 Uma Thurman, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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