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April 29

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Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

15 years ago

Born this day

1901

Hirohito

Would be 125

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Oldest record

646th

Catherine of Siena

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Famous births29

1785 · 241 yrs

Karl Drais

Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785 – 10 December 1851) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. He is regarded as "the father" and as the inventor of the bicycle.

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TechnologyDied aged 66

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1818 · 208 yrs

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is also known as Alexander the Liberator because of his historic Edict of Emancipation, which officially abolished Russian serfdom in 1861.

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RoyaltyDied aged 62

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1848 · 178 yrs

Raja Ravi Varma

Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam:) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.

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ArtDied aged 58

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1854 · 172 yrs

Henri Poincaré

Jules Henri Poincaré (UK:, US:; French:; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.

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ScienceDied aged 58

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1863 · 163 yrs

Konstantinos P. Cavafy

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης; 29 April (OS 17 April), 1863 – 29 April 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1863 · 163 yrs

William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation.

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1876 · 150 yrs

Zewditu I of Ethiopia

Zewditu (Amharic: ዘውዲቱ, born Askala Maryam; 29 April 1876 – 2 April 1930) was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916.

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RoyaltyWould be 150

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1893 · 133 yrs

Harold Urey

Harold Clayton Urey ( YOOR-ee; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes.

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ScienceWould be 133

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1899 · 127 yrs

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".

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MusicWould be 127

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1901 · 125 yrs

Hirohito

Emperor Shōwa (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), personal name Hirohito, was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death on 7 January 1989. He reigned during a period of increasing Japanese nationalism and militarism, culminating in the entry of the Empire of Japan into World War II as an Axis power.

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RoyaltyWould be 125

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1907 · 119 yrs

Fred Zinnemann

Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian and American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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FilmWould be 119

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1917 · 109 yrs

Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950).

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FilmWould be 109

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Famous deaths11

1380 · 646 yrs

Catherine of Siena

Caterina di Jacopo di Benincasa, TOSD (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), known as Catherine of Siena, was an Italian Catholic mystic and diplomat who engaged in papal and Italian politics through extensive letter-writing and advocacy.

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ReligionDied aged 33

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1688 · 338 yrs

Frederick William of Brandenburg

Frederick William (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688.

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RoyaltyDied aged 68

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1933 · 93 yrs

Konstantinos P. Cavafy

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1951 · 75 yrs

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; Austrian German:; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Wittgenstein was born in Vienna into one of Europe's richest families.

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PhilosophyWould be 137

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1951 · 75 yrs

William Randolph Hearst

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1980 · 46 yrs

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of cinema.

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FilmWould be 127

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2006 · 20 yrs

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.

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ScienceWould be 118

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2008 · 18 yrs100 Club

Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin.

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ScienceWould be 120

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2014 · 12 yrs

Bob Hoskins

Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker in the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.

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FilmWould be 84

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2020 · 6 yrs

Irrfan Khan

Irrfan Khan (Hindustani pronunciation:; born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 1967 – 29 April 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films.

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FilmWould be 59

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2020 · 6 yrs

Yahya Hassan

Yahya Hassan (19 May 1995 – 29 April 2020) was a Danish poet and political activist of Palestinian descent, whose poems and public statements criticizing both Islam and Danish policies on migration and participation in armed conflicts made him a much-debated and controversial figure.

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LiteratureWould be 31

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Events5

1946 · 80 yrs

Tokyo Trial

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and…

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War

1992 · 34 yrs

1992 Los Angeles riots

Los Angeles, California, experienced a series of riots and civil disturbances from April 29 to May 3, 1992.

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Tragedy

2011 · 15 yrs

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, England. William was second in the line of succession to the British throne at the time, later becoming heir apparent.

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History

2017 · 9 yrs

Block of Wikipedia in Turkey

From 29 April 2017 to 15 January 2020, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey. On 29 April 2017, Turkish authorities blocked online access to all its language editions throughout the country.

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History

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

The 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 29 April 2018 at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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