On this day: April 29

April 29: Shōwa Day in Japan

• 1770 – British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour, the first European ship to land in eastern Australia, reached the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces under David Farragut captured New Orleans, securing access into the Mississippi River.
• 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
• 1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake (pictured) parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local maquis group
• 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

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