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