1429: French national heroine Joan of Arc and her troops entered the besieged city of Orléans during the Hundred Years’ War.
1696: There were many attempts on the life of William III, King of England, who attracted opposition, in part, because he was a foreigner. On This Day, three would-be assassins, Rookwood, Lowick, and Cranbourne, were executed for an attempt that failed.
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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.
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.
1972: Ntare V, age 24, the last King of Burundi, is assassinated at age 24. He only reigned for a few months in 1966 when a military coup d’état took over the government and forced him into exile. His return last month (March 1972) was seen as an attempt to re-establish the monarchy, coinciding with an uprising of the Hutus. He is shot dead. In the months ahead, up to 210,000 Hutus will die in the genocide carried out by government forces.
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.
1992: Riots erupt in Los Angeles after police officers are acquitted in Rodney King trial. In Los Angeles, California, four Los Angeles police officers who had been caught beating an unarmed African American motorist in an amateur video are acquitted of any wrongdoing in the arrest. Hours after the verdicts were announced, outrage and protest turned to violence as the LA riots began.
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.
2011: Britain’s Prince William weds Kate Middleton. On April 29, 2011, Great Britain’s Prince William marries his longtime girlfriend Catherine Elizabeth “Kate” Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. Some 1,900 guests attended the ceremony, while another 1 million spectators lined the streets of London and an estimated 2 billion people around the world watched on television.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY APRIL 29
Mike Adenuga, 71 years
Nigerian businessman and Africa’s third richest person was born on 29 April 1953 in Nigeria. The founder of Globalcom, Nigeria’s second-largest telecom provider, and the Chairman of the oil exploration firm Conoil. His company, Globacom has a presence in Ghana and Benin. He made money early in life by selling lace and distributing soft drinks. His fortune truly arrived when he acquired a drilling license and struck oil in the shallow waters of Ondo State.
Uma Thurman, 54 Years
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress, born on 29 April 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British Vogue, Thurman starred in Dangerous Liaisons.
Katherine Langford, 28 years
Katherine Langford is an Australian actress who was born on April 29, 1996. After appearing in several independent films, she had her breakthrough starring as Hannah Baker in the Netflix television series 13 Reasons Why, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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