Today is Monday, April 29, the 119th day of 2013. 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
1913 ― Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1945 ― Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
1946 ― Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals
1992 ― Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin