Today is April 29. On this date in:
1429
Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.
1861
In Montgomery, Alabama, President Jefferson Davis asked the Confederate Congress for the authority to wage war.
1916
The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
1945
During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz president.
1946
28 former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
1951
Cincinnati’s streetcar service ended. (Streetcars did not resume in the city until the Cincinnati Bell Connector began operating Sept. 9, 2016.)
1957
The SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
1967
Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” was released as a single by Atlantic Records.
1968
The counterculture rock musical “Hair” heralding the “Age of Aquarius” opened at Broadway’s Biltmore Theater following limited engagements off-Broadway, beginning a run of 1,750 performances.
1972
Kings Island held its grand opening on April 29, 1972.
1991
A cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh; it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
1992
A jury in Simi Valley, California, 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.
2000
Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
2004
The National World War II Memorial opened in Washington, D.C.
2008
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed “divisive and destructive” remarks on race.
2011
Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey.
2013
NBA veteran center Jason Collins became the first male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay in a first-person account posted on Sports Illustrated’s website.
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