Today, April 29<\/p>\n
1429 \u2013 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orl\u00e9ans by the English.<\/p>\n
1770 \u2013 Captain James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013 In the F\u00fchrerbunker,\u00a0 Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl D\u00f6nitz as his successor.
\nNear Munich, Dachau concentration camp is liberated by troops of the U.S. Army\u2019s 42nd Infantry Division.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n
1953 \u2013 The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol<\/em> on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The musical opera Hair <\/em>opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 Beginning Operation Frequent Wind, <\/em>the U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Enterprise<\/em> 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 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”.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, April 29 1429 \u2013 Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orl\u00e9ans by the English. 1770 \u2013 Captain James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names. 1861 \u2013 Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. 1945 \u2013 In the F\u00fchrerbunker,\u00a0 Adolf Hitler marries his longtime … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92294,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67328\/revisions\/92294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}