What Happened On This Day ? April 29
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1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effective
The arms control treaty prohibits the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons. It has so far been ratified by some 190 countries.
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1992
Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles
53 people died in the riots, which started after the acquittal of the 4 Los Angeles police officers accused of the brutal beating of Rodney King.
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1975
Hubert van Es takes the famous picture of a helicopter airlift from a Saigon rooftop
The image shows South Vietnamese civilians employed by the U.S. trying to escape Saigon on the day before the city's fall. It came to symbolize the American defeat in Vietnam.
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1968
The musical Hair goes to Broadway
As a portrait of the 1960s hippie counterculture and sexual revolution, it was highly controversial at the time. Some of the musical's songs became anthems of the peace movement during the Vietnam War.
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1945
A day before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry
On the same day, U.S. troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
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1974
Anggun
Indonesian/French singer-songwriter, producer
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1958
Michelle Pfeiffer
American actress, singer
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1901
Hirohito
Japanese Emperor
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1899
Duke Ellington
American pianist, composer, bandleader
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1854
Henri Poincare
French mathematician, physicist, engineer
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2006
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian/American economist
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1980
Alfred Hitchcock
English director, producer
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1951
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian/English philosopher
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1937
William Gillette
American actor, author
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1921
Arthur Mold
English cricketer