Sunday, April 29, 2018

On This Day in History

April 29, 2018

 Historical Events

1862  New Orleans falls to Union forces during US Civil War
1864  Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga
1916  Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising
1945  US Army liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany
1975  Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war
1990  Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
1991  Cyclone strikes the Chittagong district in Bangladesh, killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless
1997  The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
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Famous Birthdays


Andre Agassi

48th Birthday


Daniel Day-Lewis

61st Birthday

Duke Ellington

(1899 - 1974)


Willie Nelson

85th Birthday
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Famous Deaths


Alfred Hitchcock

(1899 - 1980)

John Kenneth Galbraith

(1908 - 2006)
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April 29th: WR Hearst – The Master of Fake News


Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst was a towering figure of his age. Immensely wealthy, he believed he had unlimited influence, even on matters of war.
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