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April 29 in History
2005
Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2004
Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
1999
The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1992
1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1991
A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
1986
A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
1980
Corazones Unidos Siempre Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. is founded.
1975
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1974
Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
1970
Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1968
The controversial musical ''Hair'' opens on Broadway.
1967
After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1965
Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its ''Rehber'' series.
1953
The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1951
Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1946
Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
1945
The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day.
World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1916
Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1903
A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
1882
The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus
1864
The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
1862
American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1861
American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1832
Évariste Galois released from prison.
1770
James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1672
Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1624
In France, Richelieu assumes as Prime Minister of Louis XIII.
1483
Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
1429
Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
711
Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).