What happened on 29 April?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1899 Born: Duke Ellington American bandleader and composer; central figure of 20th-century jazz.
2. 1587 Drake singes the King of Spain's beard Francis Drake sails into Cadiz harbour and destroys some thirty ships fitting out for the invasion of England, then spends weeks raiding the Portuguese coast and seizing the fleet'
3. 1854 Born: Henri Poincaré French polymath; foundational work in topology and the theory of relativity.
4. 1917 French mutinies of 1917 Widespread mutinies in the French army after the failed Nivelle Offensive.
5. 1992 Los Angeles riots The acquittal of police who beat Rodney King sparks six days of riots in Los Angeles, killing more than 60 and exposing racial fault lines.
6. 1798 Haydn's Creation Joseph Haydn's late oratorio narrating Genesis; landmark of the Classical era.
7. 1909 People's Budget and Parliament Act Lloyd George's budget triggers a constitutional crisis and the curbing of the Lords.
8. 1909 People's Budget Lloyd George's 1909 budget taxes land and wealth to fund pensions and social insurance; Lords block it, triggering constitutional crisis.
9. 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie The United States guarantees the Lakota the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, 'for as long as the grass shall grow'. Custer's 1874 gold expedition and the seizure