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On April 29, 801: An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

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Featured moment · 801

An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

An earthquake originating in the Central Apennines was felt in Rome and Spoleto on 29 April 801. It is reported in two independent contemporary sources, Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals and the Liber Pontificalis. The information provided by the written sources has been augmented by archaeology.

People

Born on April 29

Mirra Andreeva 2007– Russian tennis player (born 2007)
Infanta Sofía of Spain 2007– Member of the Spanish royal family (born 2007)
Xochitl Gomez 2006– American actress (born 2006)
Danilo 2001– Brazilian footballer
Mateo Retegui 1999– Footballer (born 1999)
Kimberly Birrell 1998– Australian tennis player (born 1998)
Mallory Pugh 1998– American soccer player (born 1998)
Lucas Tousart 1997– French footballer (born 1997)
Katherine Langford 1996– Australian actress (born 1996)
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Christina Shakovets 1994– German tennis player
Alina Rosenberg 1992– German Paralympic equestrian
Adam Smith 1991– English footballer
Jung Hye-sung 1991– South Korean actress (born 1991)
Misaki Doi 1991– Japanese tennis player (born 1991)
James Faulkner 1990– Former Australian cricketer
Chris Johnson 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
Candace Owens 1989– American political commentator (born 1989)
Domagoj Vida 1989– Croatian footballer (born 1989)

People

Died on April 29

Padma Desai Indian-American development economist (1931–2023)
Joanna Barnes American actress and writer (1934–2022)
Cate Haste English author (1945–2021)
Irrfan Khan Indian actor (1967–2020)
Guido Münch Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist (1921–2020)
Josef Šural Czech footballer (1990–2019)
Luis García Meza 57th President of Bolivia (1980–1981)
Michael Martin British politician (1945–2018)
R. Vidyasagar Rao Indian politician
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Dmytro Hnatyuk Soviet and Ukrainian singer and politician
Renato Corona Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 to 2012
François Michelin French businessman (1926–2015)
Jean Nidetch American entrepreneur (1923–2015)
Calvin Peete American professional golfer (1943–2015)
Dan Walker Governor of Illinois from 1973 to 1977
Iveta Bartošová Musical artist
Al Feldstein American comics artist
Bob Hoskins English actor (1942–2014)

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Every April 29 on record

  1. 801 An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

    An earthquake originating in the Central Apennines was felt in Rome and Spoleto on 29 April 801. It is reported in two independent contemporary sources, Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals and the Liber Pontificalis. The information provided by the written sources has been augmented by archaeology.

  2. 1091 Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

    1091 battle of the Komnenian Restoration

    The Battle of Levounion was the first decisive Byzantine victory of the Komnenian restoration. On 29 April 1091, an invading force of Pechenegs was crushed by the combined forces of the Byzantine Empire under Alexios I Komnenos and his Cuman allies.

  3. 1429 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

    French folk heroine and saint (1412–1431)

    Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she acted under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France.

  4. 1483 Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

    Spanish island in the North Atlantic

    Gran Canaria, also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. As of 2023 the island had a population of 862,893 that constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of the island, is the largest city of the Canary Islands and the ninth-largest city of Spain.

  5. 1492 The Crown's decision to expel the Jews is announced in Zaragoza, Aragon, to the kingdom's procurators.

    On 31 March 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all unconverted Jews to leave their kingdoms and territories by the end of July that year, unless they converted to Christianity. Motivated by a desire for religious unity following the completion of the Reconquista and amid fears that unconverted Jews were influencing conversos to revert to Judaism, the decree brought to an end more than a millennium of Jewish presence in the Iberian Peninsula. It also ranks among the most consequential events in Spanish and Jewish history.

  6. 1521 Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.
  7. 1670 Emilio Altieri is elected pope after a four-month conclave and takes the name Clement X.
  8. 1760 French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British.
  9. 1770 James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
  10. 1781 American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
  11. 1826 The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.
  12. 1861 Maryland in the American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
  13. 1862 American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
  14. 1862 American Civil War: The Siege of Corinth begins as Union forces under General Henry Halleck move to engage Confederate forces led by General P. G. T. Beauregard.
  15. 1864 Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
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  1. 1903 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
  2. 1910 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
  3. 1911 Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
  4. 1916 World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  5. 1916 Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
  6. 1945 World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
  7. 1945 World War II: Allied airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.
  8. 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
  9. 1945 Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
  10. 1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
  11. 1952 Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.
  12. 1953 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
  13. 1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
  14. 1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
  15. 1974 Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

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