| 49111 | April 29 | Event | 1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. |
| 49112 | April 29 | Event | 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. |
| 49113 | April 29 | Event | 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. |
| 49114 | April 29 | Event | 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. |
| 49115 | April 29 | Event | 1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. |
| 49116 | April 29 | Event | 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
| 49117 | April 29 | Event | 1975 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands. |
| 49118 | April 29 | Event | 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items. |
| 49119 | April 29 | Event | 1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant |
| 49120 | April 29 | Event | 1991 – 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. |
| 49121 | April 29 | Event | 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. |
| 49122 | April 29 | Event | 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. |
| 49123 | April 29 | Event | 1999 – The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. |
| 49124 | April 29 | Event | 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. |
| 49125 | April 29 | Event | 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production. |
| 49126 | April 29 | Event | 2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.[dubious – discuss] |
| 49127 | April 29 | Event | 2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 49128 | April 29 | Event | 2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people. |
| 49129 | April 29 | Birth | 1636 – Esaias Reusner, German lute player and composer (d. 1679) |
| 49130 | April 29 | Birth | 1665 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1745) |
| 49131 | April 29 | Birth | 1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish-English physician and polymath (d. 1735) |
| 49132 | April 29 | Birth | 1686 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (d. 1742) |
| 49133 | April 29 | Birth | 1727 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French actor and dancer (d. 1810) |
| 49134 | April 29 | Birth | 1745 – Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1807) |
| 49135 | April 29 | Birth | 1758 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (d. 1820) |
| 49136 | April 29 | Birth | 1762 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1833) |
| 49137 | April 29 | Birth | 1780 – Charles Nodier, French librarian and author (d. 1844) |
| 49138 | April 29 | Birth | 1784 – Samuel Turell Armstrong, American publisher and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850) |
| 49139 | April 29 | Birth | 1810 – Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English journalist and author (d. 1892) |
| 49140 | April 29 | Birth | 1814 – Sadok Barącz, Galician religious leader, historian, folklorist, archivist (d. 1892) |