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- 1711
- Under the Peace of Szatmár, the Habsburgs take control of the Principality of Transylvania.
- 1769
- New Hampshire is partitioned into Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Strafford counties.
- 1950
- The National Theater of Korea debuts in the Bumingwan in Seoul.
- 1965
- In California, a 12-mile-long (19 km) expressway segment of the Pacheco Pass Highway opens, bypassing a 1920s alignment that would soon be inundated by the San Luis Reservoir.
- 1973
- In the United States, four Michigan counties near the Wisconsin border return to the Central Time Zone from the Eastern Time Zone at 2 o’clock in the morning.
- 2005
- Folgefonna National Park is established in Norway.
- 2009
- The first McDonald’s in New Zealand closes after 33 years and relocates to another part of Porirua.
- 2022
- The original Kafka’s Cafe closes in Vancouver, British Columbia, after 12 years in business.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on April 29, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on April 29 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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