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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010

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Today is Thursday, April 29, the 119th day of 2010. 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

1813 _ Rubber is patented

1852 _ First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

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

1942 _ Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France

1945 _ U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany

1946 _ 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals

1957 _ First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va.

1990 _ Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate