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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011

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Today is Friday, April 29, the 119th day of 2011. 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

1852 ― First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1856 ― End of Crimean War

1892 ― Charlie Reilly is baseball's first pinch hitter

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.