Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 29
April 29: Shōwa Day in Japan, International Dance Day.
- 1770 - James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour made their first landfall on Australia.
- 1882 - Ernst Werner von Siemens (pictured) began operating his "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler dictated his last will and testament to his secretary Traudl Junge in the Führerbunker, and then married Eva Braun in a brief ceremony.
- 1991 - A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless in Bangladesh.
- 1992 - The acquittal of policemen who had beaten Rodney King sparked civil unrest in Los Angeles.