On April 29
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly April 29 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Apr 26 – May 2)
On 28 April 224 CE Ardashir I, a ruler from Persis (Fars) descended from the line of Sasan, defeated and killed Artabanus IV, the last Arsacid king of kings, on the plain of Hormozdgan.
On 30 April 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.
On 30 April 1993 the European physics laboratory CERN, at the urging of the Web's inventor Tim Berners-Lee, signed a declaration placing the World Wide Web's underlying software and protocols into the public domain, making the technology…
On 27 April 1994 South Africa held its first fully democratic election, the first in which citizens of all races could vote, ending the apartheid system of institutionalised racial segregation that had governed the country since 1948.
By a treaty signed in Paris and dated 30 April 1803, the United States bought the vast Louisiana Territory from Napoleonic France for roughly $15 million, acquiring some 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.
On 27 April 1848 the provisional government of the French Second Republic issued a decree abolishing slavery in all French colonies, freeing roughly 250,000 enslaved people in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and elsewhere.
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened in Hyde Park, London, on 1 May 1851 and ran until 15 October, the first in the great series of international world's fairs.
On 26 April 1956, the SS Ideal X, a converted World War II T-2 oil tanker owned by Malcom McLean's Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company, departed Port Newark, New Jersey, carrying 58 standardised 35-foot truck-trailer containers alongside a load…
In late 2009 Greece revealed that its budget deficits were far larger than previously reported, and by April 2010 credit-rating agencies had downgraded Greek bonds to junk status, freezing the country out of private capital markets and…
On 2 May 2011 (1 May in the US), US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda and architect of the September 11 attacks, during a covert night raid on his fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.