Today in History - History - April 29th

1956Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open

2004Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.

1996"Rent", starring Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, opens at Nederlander Theater NYC

1987Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle

1910Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam

1984Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1834Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

1992Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin

199227th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks

1933Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, American country singer (On the Road Again)

1963Mike Babcock, Manitouwadge Ontario, NHL Coach (Anaheim, Detroit, Team Canada)

1863William Randolph Hearst, San Francisco California, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)

1899Duke Ellington, Washington, District of Columbia, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train)

1957Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)

1970Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)

1954Jerome 'Jerry' seinfeld, Brooklyn New York, comedian/actor ('Seinfeld')

1970Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nevada, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)

1885Novelist Edith Wharton (23) weds Edward Robbins Wharton (35)

1945Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun

2006John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)

1864Abraham Gesner, Canadian geologist (inventor of kerosene), dies at 66