TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 29
1289 Qala’un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
1429 Joan of Arc leads French forces to victory over English at Orleans.
1624 Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council of France.
1813 Rubber is patented.
1852 The first edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus is published.
1861 The Maryland House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union.
1862 New Orleans falls to Union forces during US Civil War
1894 Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey’s Army) arrives in Washington DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol
1913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents the all-purpose zipper
1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising
1927 Construction of the Spirit of St. Louis is completed.
1945 The Nazi concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by Allied troops
1945 In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.
1946 Former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.
1974 President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
1975 The U.S. embassy in Vietnam is evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fight their way into Saigon.
1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
1992 Four Los Angeles police offices are acquitted of charges stemming from the beating of Rodney King. Rioting ensues.
1992 Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.
1998 The U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.
2015 The White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. This was the first time a Major League Baseball game was played in front of an empty house.
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