WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009

Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2009. There are 246 days left in the year.

1429 _ Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to victory over English

1661 _ Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

1784 _ Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)

1813 _ Rubber is patented

1834 _ Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1856 _ End of Crimean War

1936 _ First pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5

1974 _ President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House

1995 _ Longest sausage ever, at 2,877 miles, made in Kitchener in Ontario, Canada