Today is Sunday, April 29, the 119th day of 2018. There are 246 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Actor Keith Baxter is 85. Bluesman Otis Rush is 83. Conductor Zubin Mehta is 82. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is 80. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 64. Actor Leslie Jordan is 63. Actress Kate Mulgrew is 63. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 61. Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 60. Actress Uma Thurman is 48. International Tennis Hall of Famer Andre Agassi is 48. Rapper Master P is 48. Actress-model Taylor Cole is 34. Actor Zane Carney is 33. Pop singer Amy Heidemann (Karmin) is 32. Pop singer Foxes is 29.

In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

In 1798, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio ‘‘The Creation’’ was rehearsed in Vienna before an invited audience.

In 1861, the Maryland House of Delegates voted against secession.

In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.

In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau camp.

In 1957, the SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated in Virginia.

In 1967, Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s ‘‘Respect’’ was released as a single by Atlantic Records.

In 1968, the counterculture rock musical ‘‘Hair’’ h opened at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater, beginning a run of 1,750 performances.

In 1977, Pope Paul VI and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, participated in a Christian unity service in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

In 1983, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.

In 1992, a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King; the verdicts were followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths.

In 1993, construction began on new Boston Garden.

In 2011, Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey.

Last year, President Trump marked his 100th day in office with a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.