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