Poor Gabriel's Almanac

Interesting things that happened April 29th:

Birthdays on this date:

In 1830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor (1894-1896), built Cliff House, railways ...
In 1863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
In 1897 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
In 1899 Duke Ellington, musician, composer
In 1901 Hirohito, Japanese Emperor (1926-1989)
In 1907 Fred Zinnemann, movie director
In 1909 Tom Ewell, actor (The Seven Year Itch, Baretta)
In 1919 Celeste Holm, actor (Gentlemen's Agreement, All About Eve)
In 1922 George Allen, football coach
In 1933 Rod McKuen, poet and owner of over a thousand Compact Discs
In 1936 Zubin Mehta, conductor
In 1947 Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son and clo-o-ver o-o-ver and o-o-ver)
+ Johnny Miller, golfer
+ Jim Ryun, runner
In 1952 Nora Dunn (to Chicago, Illinois), actor (SNL)
In 1955 Kate Mulgrew (in Dubuque, Iowa), actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

Events worth noting:

In 1429 Joan of Arc enters Orleans, France, bringing supplies, raising morale, breaking the English seige.
In 1553 A Flemish woman introduces the practice of starching linen into England.
In 1857 Headquarters for the US Army, Division of the Pacific, permanently established at the Presidio.
In 1861 MD's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
In 1862 A 100,000 man federal army prepares to march into Corinth, Miss.
+ New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
In 1868 Japanese National Day.
In 1894 "Coxey's Army", of the unemployed, invade Washington, D.C.
In 1900 John Luther "Casey" Jones rides to his death on the Cannonball Express.
In 1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken NJ invents the zipper.
In 1932 The "real Alice", Mrs Alice Hargreaves (née Liddell), arrived aboard the luxury steamer Berengaria for her first and only visit to the United States of America.
In 1945 America liberates Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
In 1946 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
In 1957 First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Va.
In 1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration.
In 1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 7 is launched.
In 1992 Rioting claims 54 lives and causes $1 billion in damage following the near-total acquittal of policemen accused of beating Rodney King.

And remember ...

America's Heartland Development Month
Cancer Control Month
Math Education Month
National Poetry Month

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