9 Ordibehesht 1396

Events

• 801 (1225 years ago) An earthquake in the Central Apennines hits Rome and Spoleto, damaging the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura.
• 1770 (256 years ago) James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
• 1916 (110 years ago) World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
• 1991 (35 years ago) A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
• 2013 (13 years ago) A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.

Births

• 1818 (208 years ago) Alexander II of Russia,
• 1854 (172 years ago) Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist and engineer (died 1912)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died 1989)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
• 1958 (68 years ago) Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1968 (58 years ago) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician and diplomat, 4th President of Croatia
• 1970 (56 years ago) Uma Thurman, American actress
• 1970 (56 years ago) Andre Agassi, American tennis player

Deaths

• 1380 (646 years ago) Catherine of Siena, Italian mystic, philosopher and saint (born 1347)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (born 1863)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1889)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (born 1899)
• 2006 (20 years ago) John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (born 1908)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (born 1906)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Bob Hoskins, English actor (born 1942)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (born 1967)

All 320 events, births and deaths of April 29