The Daily News | April 29

Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, film director, died, 1980
Rubber patented, 1813
Australia decided to send troops to South Vietnam, 1965
Challenger (US) launched, 1985
Dick Clark testified at Senate committee payola probe, 1960
Boeing 747-400 first flew, 1988
Saint Catherine of Siena (patron Saint of Italy), died, 1380
“Hair” opened on Broadway, 1968
Women first admitted to examinations at Oxford University, 1885
Solar eclipse terrified English, 1652
Roger Clemens struck out twenty batters in a game (Seattle), 1986
First electric tramway (Berline), 1882
Harold Washington sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago, 1983
German armies in Italy surrendered, 1945
Cheng Cheng Kung (Koxinga), Ming dynasty loyalist landed in Taiwan, 1661
First water-marked postage stamp issued, 1895
Police acquitted in Rodney King beating, rioting ensued (Los Angeles), 1992
Data General MV-8000 (Eagle) sent to market, 1980
Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor began operations (ten years behind schedule), 1984
US troops liberated Dachau concentration camp, 1945