This day in history
Today is Monday, April 29, the 120th day of 2023. There are 246 days left in the year.
Birthdays. Conductor Zubin Mehta is 88. Pop singer Bob Miranda of The Happenings is 82. Country singer Duane Allen of The Oak Ridge Boys is 81. Singer Tommy James is 77. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan, is 74. Movie director Phillip Noyce is 74. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 70. Actor Kate Mulgrew is 69. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 67. Actor Michelle Pfeiffer is 66. Singer Carnie Wilson is 56. Actor Uma Thurman is 54. Tennis Hall of Famer Andre Agassi is 54. Rapper Master P is 54. Rock musician Mike Hogan of The Cranberries is 51. Actor Megan Boone is 41. NHL center Jonathan Toews is 36. Pop singer Foxes is 35.
▶ In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans
to lead a French victory over the English.
▶ In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
▶ In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Admiral Karl Doenitz president.
▶ In 1946, 28 former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
▶ In 1957, the SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.
▶ In 1967, Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” was released as a single by Atlantic Records.
▶ In 1991, a cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
▶ In 1992, a jury in Simi Valley, Calif, 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.
▶ In 1997, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
▶ In 2008, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed “divisive and destructive” remarks on race.
▶ In 2010, the US Navy officially ended a ban on women serving on submarines, saying the first women would be reporting for duty by 2012.
▶ In 2011, Britain’s Prince
William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey.
▶ In 2018, tennis great Boris Becker was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt.
▶ In 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.
▶ In 2021, Brazil became the second country to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths.
▶ Last year, hundreds of Americans fleeing two weeks of deadly fighting in Sudan reached the east African nation’s port in the first US-run evacuation, completing a dangerous land journey under escort of armed drones.