Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kenya floods
  • 2024 Kenya dam failure
    • At least 42 people are killed and dozens others are missing following a dam burst in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, amid continuing heavy rains and flash floods, whose total death toll has increased to more than 120. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Scottish government crisis
  • Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns. (CNBC) (New York Times)
• Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that he will not resign following a court opening preliminary procedings against his wife. (AP)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in North Caucasus
  • Two police officers are killed and four more injured during a mass shooting at a checkpoint in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. The five attackers are also killed in the ensuing shootout. The group also attacked another checkpoint a week ago in the same region, killing two officers and wounding another. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Donbas
    • Ukraine withdraws from the villages of Berdychi, Semenivka, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Nicole Kidman becomes the first Australian to earn the AFI Life Achievement Award for her contribution to American cinema. (Rolling Stone)

Disasters and accidents

• Eighteen people are killed and 32 others are injured as a bus crashes on a highway in Malinalco, Mexico. (Reuters)

Health and environment

• The Philippines announces that it will close all schools on Monday and Tuesday, due to an extreme heat wave currently affecting the country. (The Straits Times)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Cornel West 2024 presidential campaign
    • Cornel West wins the nomination of the Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party, gaining ballot access in Vermont. (Ballot Access News)
• International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • April 2024 Israel–Hamas war protests on university campuses
    • Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is arrested while participating in a pro-Palestine protest at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. (Newsweek)

April 29

• 1770 – On his first voyage, British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour (pictured) landed at Botany Bay, making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
• 1903 – A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock, killing around 70 people.
• 1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne, France, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group.
• 1968 – The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
• 2006 – Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe, Myanmar, causing 37 deaths.