Saturday April 29th is the 119th day of the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint Catherine of Siena
April Proverb
Open a drop or a fountain
It happened today
1917 – Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo is declared blessed by Pope Benedict XV
1946 – Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tōjō and twenty-eight Japanese politicians are accused of war crimes
1955 – Italy: Giovanni Gronchi is elected president of the Italian Republic with 658 votes out of 833; he will be sworn in on May 11
1961 – Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut in the world of opera in the role of Rodolfo in La bohème, at the Romolo Valli Municipal Theater in Reggio Emilia
1969 – USA: Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
1973 – The Soviet space station Salyut 2 crashes and is destroyed
1981 – Netherlands: just one vote allows the law legalizing abortion to be approved
2001 – A group of international researchers, led by Paolo De Bernardis and Andrew Lange of the California Institute of Technology, presents the discovery of the “sound” of the Big Bang.
2006 – Faroe Islands: the Norðoyatunnilin is inaugurated, an underwater tunnel over 6 km long that crosses the Leirvíksfjørður and connects the island of Eysturoy to that of Borðoy. It is the longest tunnel in the Faroes.
2011 – William, Duke of Cambridge marries Kate Middleton
2017 – Turkey blocks access to Wikipedia
Birthdays
Sara Errani – Italian tennis player born in Bologna (29 April 1987)
Luca Laurenti – Italian TV personality, presenter, comedian, singer and actor (29 April 1963)
Michelle Pfeiffer – American actress (April 29, 1958)
Uma Thurman – American actress (April 29, 1970)
