Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 120th day of 2008. 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
1707 _ English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1813 _ Rubber is patented
1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1856 _ End of Crimean War
1945 _ Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1946 _ 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1957 _ First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va
1991 _ Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die, 10 million homeless