TODAY IN HISTORY

On April 29, 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp.

In 1946, 28 former Japanese officials went on trial

in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.

In 1967, Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” was released.

In 1991, a cyclone began striking Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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

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