Bill Bryson

The April 29th is the 119e Jour of the Année (120e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

336: The emperor Constantin Ier makes adopt a law penalizing the illegitimacy.
1091 : Victoire of the Byzantine combined with the Coumans on the Petchenègues with the Battle of the hill of Lebounion.
1429 : War One hundred Year old: Jeanne d' Arc break-in the Head office of Orleans and releases the city of the English.
1487 : Although the Parlement of Toulouse supported with strength the cause of Cahors and Montauban, a stop of the Grand the Council of the king restores the secondary jurisdictions of the Sénéchaussée of Quercy, which had been removed three years before
1545: By letters patent, the King de France François I {{er}} orders the rebuilding of the town of Vitry-en-Perthois, destroyed the previous year by Charles Quint. The new city will take the name of Vitry-le-François. He entrusts the building site of it to the architect and Italian military engineer Girolamo Marini, originating in Bologna.
1550 : Henri Ier d' Albret, resulting with the fifteenth degree from Amanieu d' Albret, obtains letters patent of the king bearing Henri II erection of the Vicomté of Albret in Duché.
1624 : The cardinal of Richelieu becomes minister of Louis XIII.
1627 : Armand of Richelieu founds the Company of the News-France
1789: At a few days of opening of the General states to Versailles, protest of noble entering, of which Pierre-Louis-Robert de Briois, against any modification of the rights and prerogatives of the nobility of the States of Artois.
1877 : Large Fire of Montreal
1899: The limit of 100 km/h is crossed by a electric car, the “ Jamais Satisfies ”.

20th century

1913 : A Brevet of invention is granted to Gideon Sandback for the Zipper.
1916 : In Ireland, end of the insurrection of Easter to Dublin; it had begun the April 24th; unconditional surrender of the insurrectionists.
1941 : The Canadian obtain to be able to make career in the Droit.
1945 :

Release of the Concentration camp of Dachau.
the women votes NT for the first time in France.
Marriage of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, day before their suicide.
Dismissal of Pierre II of Yugoslavia by a vote of the Yugoslav constituent assembly.

1946 : The general and old Prime Minister of the Japan Hideki Tōjō as 28 former Japanese chiefs are shown war crimes.
1961 : Beginnings of Luciano Pavarotti with the opera.
1973 : With Seville (Spain), alternate of Jose Antonio Campuzano, Spanish Matador.
1982 : The China account from now on more than one billion inhabitants.
1990 : In Great Britain, celebrates it Collège of Eton removes the obligation to carry the Queue-de-pie.
1991 : Coup d'etat of Valentine Strasser with the Sierra Leone, which reverses Joseph Saidu Momoh
1992:

the four white police officers of Los Angeles filmed on March 3rd, 1991 passing to tobacco the black motorist Rodney King are discharged from all the criminal charges who weighed against them, except one. Riots make 52 dead.
Publication of the decree on enforcement of a law of the law Evin, which envisages prohibition to smoke in all the closed public places and covers, in the collective means of transport, the collective work places.

1994 : Battle of Saraci-Kalesija between FORPRONU and the Serb S of Bosnia-Herzégovine.
1997 : The astronaut Jerry Linenger and the cosmonaut Vassili Tsibiliev carry out the first American-Russian exit in space.
1998 : The judges Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky put Roland Dumas in examination for concealment and complicity of abuse of corporate asset.

21e century

2002 : Diane Pretty sees herself refusing her right to die in front of the European Cour of the human rights.
2003 : In France, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin announces the creation of the Prestation of reception of the young child.
2004 :

Ousmane Issoufi Maïga is named Prime Minister for the Mali.
Left in kiosk the book of Corinne Maier Hello idleness: Art and need for making some the least possible in company .
the APTS, Québécois trade union of the professionals and technicians of health is founded.

2005 :

“historical” Meeting with Beijing ( Beijing ), between the general secretary of the Central committee of the Chinese Communist party (PCC) Hu Jintao and chairs it Kuomintang, Lien Chan. It has been about the first between more the top-ranking executives of the two parties for 60 years
Mozilla Firefox exceeds the 50 million remote loadings.

2007 : Mali: First turn of the presidential election.

Sport

1950 : James Fuchs beats the world records of the Shot put to 17 m 82
2004:

Olivier de Kersauson gains the Trophée Jules Verne over Geronimo by buckling the tour in 63 days and 14 hours.
First victory of the national team of Football of San Marino

2006: The Paris Saint-Germain gains the final of the Coupe de France of football vis-a-vis the Olympique of Marseilles over the score from 2 to 1.

Births

1727 : Jean-Georges Noverre, creator of the modern ballet († October 19th 1810)
1780: Charles Nodier, French writer († January 27th 1844)
1824: Félicien Chapuis, Belgian entomologist († September 30th 1879)
1837: Georges Baker, general and politician French († September 10th 1891)
1848: Delighted Varmâ, Indian painter († October 2nd 1906)
1854:

Carlo Bugatti, decorator Art nouveau († March 31st 1940)
Jules Henri Poincaré, mathematician, founder of topology († July 17th 1912)

1860: Lorado Taft, American Sculptor . († October 30th 1936).
1863 : William Randolph Hearst, press baron. († 1951)
1876: Zaoditou, empress of Ethiopia of 1916 with 1930 († April 2nd 1930)
1893: Harold Clayton Urey, chemist, Nobel Prize of chemistry († January 6th 1981)
1899: Duke Ellington, pianist of jazz and type-setter († May 24th 1974)
1901: Hirohito, emperor of the Japan under the name of Shōwa, († January 7th 1989)
1907:

Tino Rossi, French singer († September 26th 1983)
Fred Zinnemann, American realizer († March 14th 1997)

1909: Daniel Mayer, French political personality, († December 29th 1996)
1919: Gerard Oury, realizer of cinema, an actor and a scenario writer French. († July 20th 2006)
1920: Armand Forel, Swiss politician
1922: Toots Thielemans, Belgian Harmoniciste of Jazz
1924: Zizi Jeanmaire, ballet dancer, singer, driving of review and French actress
1929: Ray Barretto, American musician († February 17th 2006)
1930: Jean Rochefort, French actor
1931: Lonnie Donegan, musician, father of the style " skiffle". († 3 November 2002)
1936: Zubin Mehta, Indian leader
1940: George Adams, musician states-unien
1943

Ian Kershaw, historian specialist in Adolf Hitler
Farm Dominique, French actress

1946: John Waters, American realizer
1950: Zouc, actress and Swiss humorist
1951: Marie-Jo Zimmermann, French political woman
1953:

Nikolai Budarin, Russian cosmonaut
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, type-setter of film music Polish

1954: Frederic Chichin, guitarist of the group Rita Mitsouko († November 28th 2007)
1955: Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1957: Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1962: Christine Defraigne, Belgian political woman of French language
1967: Curtis Joseph, player of professional Hockey
1969: Philippe Ermenault, champion of Cycling on track French
1970:

Andre Agassi, champion of American tennis
Uma Thurman, American actress

1971: Priscilia de Selve, journalist, presenter of the newspapers on the chain TNT I-Television
1973: David Belle, French founder of the Parkour
1974: Anggun, singer Indonesia.
1983 : David Lee, American player of Basketball

Death

1676 : Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral
1743: Abbot of Saint-Pierre, French philosopher
1793: John Michel, physicist and British geologist
1937: Wallace Hume Carothers, chemist states-unien
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher
1967: J.B. American Lenoir, bluesman, guitarist, singer and type-setter
1980: Alfred Hitchcock, at the same time British and American scenario writer. (° August 13rd 1899)
2005: William J. Beautiful, producer and American, creative scenario writer inter alia series " Fires of the amour". (° March 6th 1927)

Celebrations

international Day of the Dance.
Japan: Midori No Hi (green Day).

First names

Cathel, Cathia, Cathie, Katel, Katia, Katy and Ketty.
Segondel (Breton first name).

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

Catholic saints

Catherine of His

Orthodoxe saints

See too

April 29th in sport
April 29th in the railroads

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