| 2013 | The World Health Organization announces that the Novel coronavirus 2012, the newly discovered coronavirus, also referred to as Saudi SARS, can be transmitted from person-to-person contact |
| 2013 | Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking number of new Catholic Church saints; Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI submitted the 813 'Martyrs of Otranto' who were beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam |
| 2012 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to his home after successfully completing radiotherapy treatments for cancer in Cuba |
| 2012 | A missing piece of the Mayan calendar is discovered, proving the Maya didn't believe 2012 would be the end of the world |
| 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II becomes the second-longest-reigning monarch in Britain |
| 2011 | Amid protests, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, is sworn in for a fourth term |
| 2010 | After new allegations of torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports a second U.S. secret prison exists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan |
| 2008 | 8.0 Earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000 |
| 1997 | 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea |
| 1997 | Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox |
| 1997 | Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict |
| 1997 | Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida |
| 1997 | Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami |
| 1996 | "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1996 | "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1996 | 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies |
| 1996 | Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8 |
| 1995 | Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59) |
| 1995 | Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves |
| 1995 | Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4 |
| 1994 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan |
| 1993 | Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands |
| 1993 | Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS |
| 1993 | Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
| 1993 | Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II |
| 1992 | 1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest |
| 1991 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
| 1991 | A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest |
| 1990 | 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) |
| 1990 | Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million |
| 1990 | Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting |
| 1989 | "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance |
| 1989 | Last graffiti covered New York City subway car retired |
| 1989 | Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists |
| 1988 | "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1986 | Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph |
| 1986 | President Reagan appoints Dr. James C Fletcher NASA Administrator |
| 1986 | Fred Markham (U.S.), unpaced and unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California |
| 1985 | Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi |
| 1985 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-D |
| 1984 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1984 | Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole |
| 1984 | South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
| 1984 | White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 |
| 1984 | World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans |
| 1983 | Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA |
| 1983 | Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
| 1982 | FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II |
| 1982 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' |
| 1982 | U.S. Football League forms |
| 1982 | In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II |
| 1981 | "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander New York City for 333 performances |
| 1981 | Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minnesota |
| 1980 | 1st nonstop crossing of U.S. via balloon (Maxie Anderson and son Chris) |
| 1979 | Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end |
| 1978 | Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female |
| 1977 | Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation |
| 1976 | Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1 |
| 1975 | U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces |
| 1974 | 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3 |
| 1974 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
| 1973 | 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
| 1973 | Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92 |
| 1972 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13) |
| 1972 | Paul McCartney and Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
| 1971 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St. Tropez Town Hall |
| 1970 | Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run |
| 1970 | Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court |
| 1970 | KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, Montana (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops) |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | Kenneth H. Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH |
| 1968 | "March of Poor" under Reverend Abernathy reach Washington, D.C. |
| 1968 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| 1968 | WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student |
| 1967 | Provo disbands in Netherlands Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| 1967 | 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London) |
| 1966 | St. Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns |
| 1965 | Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations |
| 1964 | Manlio Brosio chosen as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1963 | Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open |
| 1963 | Race riot in Birmingham Alabama |
| 1962 | Grevelingendam closes |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1961 | Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time |
| 1960 | Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special |
| 1959 | "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| 1959 | Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher) |
| 1958 | "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo and The Dont's hits #40 |
| 1958 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| 1957 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open |
| 1956 | Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0 |
| 1956 | East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves |
| 1955 | Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0) |
| 1953 | KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Charlton Playground named in Bronx |
| 1951 | 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll |
| 1950 | Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris |
| 1949 | 1st foreign woman ambassador received in U.S. (S V L Pandit India) |
| 1949 | West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade |
| 1948 | Queen Wilhelmina resigns |
| 1944 | 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen and Brux |
| 1944 | Krim purged of nazi troops |
| 1944 | Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat |
| 1943 | Axis forces in North Africa surrender |
| 1943 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in U.S. |
| 1943 | German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
| 1942 | 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz |
| 1942 | David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine |
| 1942 | Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River |
| 1942 | Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943 |
| 1941 | Great British convoy marches into Alexandria |
| 1940 | French mariners occupy St. Maarten |
| 1940 | German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug |
| 1940 | Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River |
| 1938 | Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) |
| 1937 | George VI crowned King of England |
| 1937 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3 |
| 1936 | Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London |
| 1934 | "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1 |
| 1934 | 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 |
| 1933 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers |
| 1932 | Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey |
| 1932 | Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney |
| 1930 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) |
| 1929 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) |
| 1928 | Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy |
| 1926 | Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole |
| 1926 | British general strike ends |
| 1926 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
| 1926 | General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared |
| 1926 | Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole |
| 1925 | Uzbekistan and Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics |
| 1925 | Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1924 | 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 |
| 1924 | 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind |
| 1923 | 49th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6 |
| 1921 | National Hospital Day 1st observed |
| 1919 | Yankees and Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 |
| 1917 | 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4 |
| 1917 | 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 |
| 1915 | Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250 |
| 1915 | Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week" |
| 1913 | Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2) |
| 1910 | 2nd NAACP conference (New York City) |
| 1910 | Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 |
| 1909 | 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 |
| 1908 | George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London |
| 1908 | Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield |
| 1901 | President McKinley visits San Francisco |
| 1900 | Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed |
| 1900 | Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city |
| 1898 | Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters |
| 1897 | 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente, Netherlands |
| 1897 | Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece |
| 1894 | Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City |
| 1891 | Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname |
| 1890 | Louisiana legalized prize fighting |
| 1888 | Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale |
| 1881 | France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony |
| 1881 | Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate |
| 1877 | Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia |
| 1875 | 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St. Louis 0 |
| 1874 | U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized |
| 1871 | Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1870 | Manitoba becomes a province of Canada |
| 1865 | Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas |
| 1864 | Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (Ft. Darling) |
| 1864 | Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia |
| 1864 | Battle of Todd's Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid) |
| 1864 | Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River |
| 1864 | U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general |
| 1863 | Battle of Raymond, Mississippi |
| 1862 | Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana |
| 1849 | Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile |
| 1832 | Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan |
| 1792 | Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented |
| 1789 | Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses |
| 1780 | British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina |
| 1780 | Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War) |
| 1777 | 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette) |
| 1776 | Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns |
| 1733 | Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague |
| 1701 | Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701) |
| 1695 | English king Willem III departs to Netherlands |
| 1689 | England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg |
| 1641 | Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9) |
| 1640 | Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV |
| 1604 | Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius |
| 1588 | Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris |
| 1551 | San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens |
| 1534 | Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian |
| 1525 | Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers |
| 1459 | Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur |
| 1328 | Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V |
| 1215 | English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country |
| 1082 | Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr |
| 919 | Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich |
| 254 | Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope |
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