April 29
1429 - Joan of Arc entered the city of Orelans. She would end its months-long siege by the English and would become known as the "Maid of Orleans".
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1913 - Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey received a patent for a "separable fastener" -- later known as the zipper.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion in Ireland ended with the surrender of Irish nationalists.
1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1945 - Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz president. (The couple killed themselves the next day.)
1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
1957 - The SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
1978 - Japan's Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1980 - Film director Alfred Hitchcock died at age 80.
1981 - Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.
1991 - A cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people.
1992 - Deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused more than $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
1997 - The first joint U.S.-Russian space walk was made by Jerry Linenger and Vasily Tsibliyev from the Mir space station.
1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees (he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and dishonorably discharged).
2000 - Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
2008 - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed "divisive and destructive" remarks on race.
2010 - The U.S. Navy officially ended a ban on women serving on submarines, saying the first women would be reporting for duty by 2012.
2011 - Britain's Prince William married Kate Middleton in a lavish royal wedding at Westminster Abbey in London. It is estimated that more than 2 billion people worldwide watched the event.
2020 - Scientists announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus, the experimental antiviral medication remdesivir, which they said could speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients.
Birthdays
20 - Madisyn Menchaca (model)
25 - Katherine Langford (actress)
32 - Candace Owens (TV host)
33 - Jonathan Toews (hockey player)
35 - Amy Heidemann (singer)
37 - Taylor Cole (actress/model)
38 - Megan Boone (actress)
38 - Jay Cutler (football player)
43 - Tyler Labine (actor)
44 - Titus O'Neal (professional wrestler)
49 - Erica Campbell (singer)
49 - James Bonamy (country singer)
50 - Darby Stanchfield (actress)
51 - Master P (rapper)
51 - Andre Agassi (tennis player)
51 - Uma Thurman (actress)
52 - Paul Adelstein (actor)
53 - Carnie Wilson (singer)
55 - Vincent Ventresca (actor)
58 - Stephanie Bentley (country singer)
63 - Eve Plumb (actress)
63 - Michelle Pfeiffer (actress)
64 - Daniel Day-Lewis (actor)
66 - Kate Mulgrew (actress)
66 - Leslie Jordan (actor)
67 - Jerry Seinfeld (comedian)
74 - Tommy James (singer)
78 - Duane Allen (country singer)
88 - Keith Baxter (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 29
1941 - The Boston Bees changed their name to Braves.
1961 - "ABC's Wide World of Sports" premiered with Jim McKay as host.
1980 - The Detroit Lions selected Oklahoma running back Billy Sims with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1980 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft: TE - Junior Miller (1st round, 7th pick, Atlanta Falcons); DT - Rod Horn (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); DE - Bill Barnett (3rd round, Miami Dolphins); WR - Tim Smith (3rd round, Houston Oilers); RB - I.M. Hipp (4th round, Atlanta Falcons); DT - Dan Pensick (5th round, Kansas City Chiefs); OG - John Havekost (7th round, Denver Broncos); C - Kelly Saalfeld (9th round, Green Bay Packers); OT - Mark Goodspeed (9th round, Miami Dolphins) and WR - Kenny Brown (10th round, Minnesota Vikings).
1981 - The New Orleans Saints selected South Carolina running back George Rogers with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1981 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1981 NFL Draft: S - Russell Gary (2nd round, New Orleans Saints); RB - Jarvis Redwine (2nd round, Minnesota Vikings); RB - Andra Franklin (2nd round, Miami Dolphins); LB - Derrie Nelson (4th round, Dallas Cowboys); WR - John Noonan (9th round, Miami Dolphins); OG - Randy Schleusener (9th round, Cleveland Browns); and OG - Joe Adams (12th round, St. Louis Cardinals).
1981 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first left-handed pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a major league record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game in a win over the Seattle Mariners. (He would repeat the feat in 1996.)
1986 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Auburn running back Bo Jackson with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1986 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1986 NFL Draft: FB - Tom Rathman (3rd round, San Francisco 49ers); DE - Jim Skow (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); RB - Paul Miles (7th round, Seattle Seahawks); and C - Bill Lewis (7th round, Los Angeles Raiders).
1988 - The Baltimore Orioles snap their record season-opening losing streak of 21 games with a 9-0 win over the Chicago White Sox.
2006 - The Houston Texans select North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2006 - The following Huskers were selected in the 2006 NFL Draft: S - Daniel Bullocks (2nd round, Detroit Lions); P - Sam Koch (6th round, Baltimore Ravens); DT - Le Kevin Smith (6th round, New England Patriots) and DT - Titus Adams (7th round, New York Jets).
2010 - The NCAA's Board of Directors approved expanding the men's Division I basketball tournament to 68 teams beginning the following season.
2015 - The Baltimore Orioles beat the White Sox 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. This was the first time a Major League Baseball game was played in front of an empty house.
2018 - Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal equals his Open-era record for most wins at the same event with his 11th Barcelona ATP title.
1429 - Joan of Arc entered the city of Orelans. She would end its months-long siege by the English and would become known as the "Maid of Orleans".
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1913 - Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey received a patent for a "separable fastener" -- later known as the zipper.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion in Ireland ended with the surrender of Irish nationalists.
1945 - American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1945 - Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz president. (The couple killed themselves the next day.)
1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
1957 - The SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
1978 - Japan's Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1980 - Film director Alfred Hitchcock died at age 80.
1981 - Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.
1991 - A cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people.
1992 - Deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused more than $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
1997 - A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
1997 - The first joint U.S.-Russian space walk was made by Jerry Linenger and Vasily Tsibliyev from the Mir space station.
1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees (he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and dishonorably discharged).
2000 - Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
2008 - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed "divisive and destructive" remarks on race.
2010 - The U.S. Navy officially ended a ban on women serving on submarines, saying the first women would be reporting for duty by 2012.
2011 - Britain's Prince William married Kate Middleton in a lavish royal wedding at Westminster Abbey in London. It is estimated that more than 2 billion people worldwide watched the event.
2020 - Scientists announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus, the experimental antiviral medication remdesivir, which they said could speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients.
Birthdays
20 - Madisyn Menchaca (model)
25 - Katherine Langford (actress)
32 - Candace Owens (TV host)
33 - Jonathan Toews (hockey player)
35 - Amy Heidemann (singer)
37 - Taylor Cole (actress/model)
38 - Megan Boone (actress)
38 - Jay Cutler (football player)
43 - Tyler Labine (actor)
44 - Titus O'Neal (professional wrestler)
49 - Erica Campbell (singer)
49 - James Bonamy (country singer)
50 - Darby Stanchfield (actress)
51 - Master P (rapper)
51 - Andre Agassi (tennis player)
51 - Uma Thurman (actress)
52 - Paul Adelstein (actor)
53 - Carnie Wilson (singer)
55 - Vincent Ventresca (actor)
58 - Stephanie Bentley (country singer)
63 - Eve Plumb (actress)
63 - Michelle Pfeiffer (actress)
64 - Daniel Day-Lewis (actor)
66 - Kate Mulgrew (actress)
66 - Leslie Jordan (actor)
67 - Jerry Seinfeld (comedian)
74 - Tommy James (singer)
78 - Duane Allen (country singer)
88 - Keith Baxter (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 29
1941 - The Boston Bees changed their name to Braves.
1961 - "ABC's Wide World of Sports" premiered with Jim McKay as host.
1980 - The Detroit Lions selected Oklahoma running back Billy Sims with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1980 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1980 NFL Draft: TE - Junior Miller (1st round, 7th pick, Atlanta Falcons); DT - Rod Horn (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); DE - Bill Barnett (3rd round, Miami Dolphins); WR - Tim Smith (3rd round, Houston Oilers); RB - I.M. Hipp (4th round, Atlanta Falcons); DT - Dan Pensick (5th round, Kansas City Chiefs); OG - John Havekost (7th round, Denver Broncos); C - Kelly Saalfeld (9th round, Green Bay Packers); OT - Mark Goodspeed (9th round, Miami Dolphins) and WR - Kenny Brown (10th round, Minnesota Vikings).
1981 - The New Orleans Saints selected South Carolina running back George Rogers with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1981 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1981 NFL Draft: S - Russell Gary (2nd round, New Orleans Saints); RB - Jarvis Redwine (2nd round, Minnesota Vikings); RB - Andra Franklin (2nd round, Miami Dolphins); LB - Derrie Nelson (4th round, Dallas Cowboys); WR - John Noonan (9th round, Miami Dolphins); OG - Randy Schleusener (9th round, Cleveland Browns); and OG - Joe Adams (12th round, St. Louis Cardinals).
1981 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first left-handed pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a major league record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game in a win over the Seattle Mariners. (He would repeat the feat in 1996.)
1986 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Auburn running back Bo Jackson with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1986 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1986 NFL Draft: FB - Tom Rathman (3rd round, San Francisco 49ers); DE - Jim Skow (3rd round, Cincinnati Bengals); RB - Paul Miles (7th round, Seattle Seahawks); and C - Bill Lewis (7th round, Los Angeles Raiders).
1988 - The Baltimore Orioles snap their record season-opening losing streak of 21 games with a 9-0 win over the Chicago White Sox.
2006 - The Houston Texans select North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2006 - The following Huskers were selected in the 2006 NFL Draft: S - Daniel Bullocks (2nd round, Detroit Lions); P - Sam Koch (6th round, Baltimore Ravens); DT - Le Kevin Smith (6th round, New England Patriots) and DT - Titus Adams (7th round, New York Jets).
2010 - The NCAA's Board of Directors approved expanding the men's Division I basketball tournament to 68 teams beginning the following season.
2015 - The Baltimore Orioles beat the White Sox 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. This was the first time a Major League Baseball game was played in front of an empty house.
2018 - Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal equals his Open-era record for most wins at the same event with his 11th Barcelona ATP title.
