On This Day
29 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1639 Shah Jahan laid the foundation of Delhi's Red Fort. The fort was completed on May 13, 1646.
- 1848 Raja Ravi Varma, celebrated Indian painter and artist, was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
- 1919 Alla Rakha, famous tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music, was born.
- 1936 Zubin Mehta, famous orchestral conductor (NY Philharmonic 1976), was born in Bombay, India.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1429 Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years' War.
- 1770 British explorer James Cook made his first landing in Australia, at Botany Bay.
- 1852 The first edition of Roget's Thesaurus was published. Peter Mark Roget was a London physician of French-Swiss ancestry who began to collect and organize English words to improve his public speaking.
- 1930 Telephone connection between Britain and Australia went into service.
- 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English filmmaker widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema, died in California, United States. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
- 1991 A huge tropical cyclone struck Bangladesh, killing an estimated 140,000 people and causing 10 million to lose their homes.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Dance Day is a global celebration of dance, created by the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, the main partner for the performing arts of UNESCO.
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