Sunday 29th of April 1770

42-year-old Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook lands with the HMB Endeavour in Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Wednesday 29th of April 1863

Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

Friday 29th of April 1881

Murderer Royal S. Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, 546 State Farm Road, Windsor, Vermont, United States.

Saturday 29th of April 1899

Bandleader and composer Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Monday 29th of April 1901

Emperor of Japan Hirohito aka Emperor Shōwa is born in Aoyama Palace, Tokyo, Moto-Akasaka, Kantō, Japan.

Monday 29th of April 1907

Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

Monday 29th of April 1907

Singer and actor Tino Constantin Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

Sunday 29th of April 1917

Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren is born as Eleanora Derenkowskaia in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

Tuesday 29th of April 1919

Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

Thursday 29th of April 1943

Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Wandsworth, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sunday 29th of April 1945

Musician Hugh Colin Hopper known from the band ‘Soft Machine’ is born in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.

Sunday 29th of April 1945

56-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Sunday 29th of April 1945

The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by units of 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks and the 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division soldiers led by Brigadier General Henning Linden in Konzentrationslager Dachau, Dachau, Bayern, Germany.

Since 1945 adherents of the 42nd and 45th Division versions of events have argued over which unit was the first to liberate Dachau.

Friday 29th of April 1949

Murderer Andrew Martin Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Sunday 29th of April 1951

Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer at the age of 62 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 29th of April 1958

Double murderer Robert Wayne Vickers aka Bonzai Bob is born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Tuesday 29th of April 1958

Actress Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States.

Saturday 29th of April 1967

37-year-old Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by serial killer Hans van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Wednesday 29th of April 1970

Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Thursday 29th of April 1971

52-year-old Edna Terry MacDonald is strangled by serial rapist and murderer Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States.

Friday 29th of April 1977

Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.

Friday 29th of April 1977

21-year-old Marie-Therese Majer is murdered by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Schriesheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Friday 29th of April 1977

39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 54. Aktion in Studio Morra, Via Calabritto, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

Tuesday 29th of April 1980

Film director Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense dies of renal failure at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, Bel Air, California, United States.

Tuesday 29th of April 1980

19-year-old Darin Lee Kendrick is strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Stanton, California, United States.

Bonin and Vernon Butts picked up Kendrick near Knott's Berry Farm, tied him up and forced him to drink chloral hydrate.

Thursday 29th of April 1993

Guitarist, songwriter, arranger and producer Mick Michael Ronson known from David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars dies of liver cancer at the age of 47 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 29th of April 1997

34-year-old David Samuel Madson is shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Madson's body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake.

Tuesday 29th of April 1997

Double murderer Ernest Orville Baldree is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 29th of April 1998

Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Wednesday 29th of April 1998

Murderer Frank Basil McFarland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tuesday 29th of April 2003

Murderer David Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Brewer's last meal request was for fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, apple pie and root beer.

Friday 29th of April 2005

A carboot sale of fresh pig meat outside our apartment in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

Tuesday 29th of April 2014

Kidnapper and murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett dies of a heart attack during a botched execution by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.