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Historical Events
on April 29th
- Lead Story
- World War II monument opens in Washington, D.C.,2004
- American Revolution
- Nathanael Greene takes command of Long Island,1776
- Automotive
- The end of the road for Oldsmobile,2004
- Civil War
- Union captures New Orleans,1862
- Cold War
- American statesmen deny Lattimore's influence,1950
- Crime
- Rodney King trial verdict announced,1992
- Disaster
- Cyclone kills 135,000 in Bangladesh,1991
- General Interest
- Joan of Arc relieves Orleans,1429
- First African-American college chartered,1854
- Dachau liberated,1945
- Riots erupt in Los Angeles,1992
- Hollywood
- Daniel Day-Lewis born,1957
- Literary
- Henry James' Transatlantic Sketches is published,1875
- Music
- Hair premieres on Broadway,1968
- Old West
- William Randolph Hearst is born,1863
- Presidential
- Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes,1974
- Sports
- Roger Clemens strikes out 20 batters in single game,1986
- Vietnam War
- U.S.-South Vietnamese forces launch Cambodian "incursion",1970
- New casualty figures released.,1971
- Operation Frequent Wind begins,1975
- World War I
- British forces surrender at Kut, Mesopotamia,1916
- World War II
- Adolf and Eva marry,1945
- International Military Tribunal indicts Hideki,1946
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