Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
When a jury acquitted four officers caught on camera beating a Black motorist, anger over the verdict set Los Angeles ablaze for days.
On April 29, 1991, a Category 5 cyclone drove a 20-foot wall of sea over Bangladesh's coast, killing roughly 138,000 people overnight.
On April 29, 1770, Lieutenant James Cook and the Endeavour crew landed at Botany Bay — the first British footfall on the continent's eastern coast.
On April 29, 1429, a teenage Joan of Arc rode through Orleans' eastern gate, reviving a starving city and turning the Hundred Years' War.
On 29 April 1913, a Swedish-born engineer in Hoboken won the U.S. patent for the interlocking-tooth design behind every zipper today.
