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.