What Happened on April 29th?

Описание: Have you ever wondered what happened on a particular day in history? What events, what discoveries, what achievements occurred on a specific day? Your birthday perhaps? Well today we are bringing you the major events that happened on April 29th.

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Events covered:
1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1661 - Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan.
1672 – Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
1784 – Premiere of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat takes place in Vienna, Austria.
1852 – 1st Edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus is published.
1864 – 1700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 Maori warriors.
1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1916 – Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
1967 – Aretha Franklin releases her “Respect”.
1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 – The controversial musical “Hair” premieres on Broadway and its songs become anthems for the anti-Vietnam war movement.
1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1990 – Wrecking cranes begin taking down the Berlin Wall at the Brandonberg Gate.
1992 – Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King.
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
2002 – The US regains its seat on the UN Commission on Human Rights.
2010 – Felix Kjellberg creates his Youtube channel Pewdiepie after forgetting the passwords to his Pewdie channel.
2016 – Drake releases his 4th studio album titled “Views”.
2018 – UK Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, resigns amid an immigration scandal involving the Windrush generation.
2018 – The Simpsons becomes the TV series with the highest episode count in history (635).
2019 – The ant vaccination movement (anti-vaxxers) results in 700 cases of measles in the US, a 25-year high.