TODAY IN HISTORY

1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish

nationalists surrendered to British authorities. 1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz as president of Nazi Germany.

1946: In Tokyo, 28 former Japanese officials went on trial as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.

1957: The SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.

1967: Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” was released as a single by Atlantic Records.

1991: A cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 1992: A jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King; the verdicts were followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths.

1997: A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.

2010: The U.S. Navy officially ended a ban on women serving on submarines, saying the first women would be reporting for duty by 2012. The NCAA’s board of directors approved a 68-team format for the men’s basketball tournament beginning the next season.

2011: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey.

2012: An out-of-control SUV plunged more than 50 feet off the side of a New York City highway overpass and landed on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven people inside, including three children.

2017: A white suburban Dallas policeman fired into a moving car carrying five Black teenagers, killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards. (Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver would be convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.)

2020: Scientists announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus, the experimental antiviral medication remdesivir, which they said could speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients.