Today, April 29

1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans by the English.

1770 – Captain James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.

1861 – Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.

1945 – In the Führerbunker,  Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
Near Munich, Dachau concentration camp is liberated by troops of the U.S. Army’s 42nd Infantry Division.

1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo, and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

1968 – The musical opera Hair opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.

1975 – Beginning Operation Frequent Wind, the U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover.

1986 – The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.

1992 – Following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King, riots break out over the city. Over the next 3 days, 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed. Armed South Korean merchants guarding their business premises from looters spawn the term “Roof Koreans”.

1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories. Several U.S. government chemical weapons depots from Colorado to Kentucky begin planning on how to safely dispose of their inventory which still continues to date.

2004 – The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.

2013 – National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all 7 U.S. crew aboard.

2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all time and never to be beaten, low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests over an alleged incident of police brutality.