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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29" title="April 29">April 29</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770" title="1770">1770</a> – On <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook" title="First voyage of James Cook">his first voyage</a>, British explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a> and the crew of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour" title="HMS Endeavour">HMS <i>Endeavour</i></a></b> landed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay" title="Botany Bay">Botany Bay</a>, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863" title="1863">1863</a> – Confederate forts at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Gulf,_Mississippi" title="Grand Gulf, Mississippi">Grand Gulf</a> survived <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Gulf" title="Battle of Grand Gulf">a bombardment by Union gunboats</a></b>, preventing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>'s troops from crossing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a> at that point.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903" title="1903">1903</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide" title="Frank Slide">A rockslide</a></b> buried part of the Canadian mining town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank,_Alberta" title="Frank, Alberta">Frank</a> under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: North Vietnam concluded its <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_Campaign" title="East Sea Campaign">East Sea Campaign</a></b> by capturing all of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands" title="Spratly Islands">Spratly Islands</a> held by South Vietnam.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mala" title="Cyclone Mala">Cyclone Mala</a></b> made landfall near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thandwe" title="Thandwe">Thandwe</a>, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Farquhar" title="George Farquhar">George Farquhar</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1707); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta_Blau" title="Marietta Blau">Marietta Blau</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1894); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_dalla_Torre_del_Tempio_di_Sanguinetto" title="Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto">Giacomo dalla Torre</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2020)</p>
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