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On This Day: April 29

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On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
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On April 29, 1901, Hirohito, ruler of Japan during World War II and Japan's longest-reigning monarch, was born. Following his death on Jan. 7, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1429	Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.
1861	Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
1862	New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.
1899	Jazz musician and bandleader Duke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C.
1916	The Easter uprising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
1945	Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. (The couple killed themselves the next day.)
1981	Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.
1992	Rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Fifty-four people were killed.
1996	The musical "Rent" opened on Broadway.
1997	A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
2004	President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were interviewed by the Sept. 11 commission.
2004	A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington D.C.
2006	Economist John Kenneth Galbraith died at age 97.

Current Birthdays

Chicago Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris turns 28 years old today.

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White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes turns 47 years old today.

AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

1917	Celeste Holm, Actress, turns 94
1933	Rod McKuen, Poet, turns 78
1934	Luis Aparicio, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 77
1934	Otis Rush, Blues musician, turns 77
1936	Zubin Mehta, Conductor, turns 75
1943	Duane Allen, Country singer (The Oak Ridge Boys), turns 68
1947	Tommy James, Singer (The Shondells), turns 64
1950	Debbie Stabenow, U.S. senator, D-Mich., turns 61
1954	Jerry Seinfeld, Actor, comedian ("Seinfeld"), turns 57
1955	Kate Mulgrew, Actress ("Star Trek: Voyager"), turns 56
1957	Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor, turns 54
1958	Michelle Pfeiffer, Actress, turns 53
1958	Eve Plumb, Actress ("The Brady Bunch"), turns 53
1968	Carnie Wilson, Singer (Wilson Phillips), turns 43
1970	Andre Agassi, Tennis player, turns 41
1970	Uma Thurman, Actress, turns 41

Historic Birthdays

Hirohito4/29/1901 - 1/7/1989Japanese emperor (1926-89).Go to obituary »

62	Oliver Ellsworth 4/29/1745 - 11/26/1807 American senator, jurist and chief author of the Judiciary Act of 1789
63	Alexander II 4/29/1818 - 3/13/1881 Russian emperor (1855-81); emancipated the serfs in 1861
58	Henri Poincare 4/29/1854 - 7/17/1912 French mathematician, theoretical astronomer and scientific philosopher
88	William Randolph Hearst 4/29/1863 - 8/14/1951 American newspaper publisher
82	Sir Thomas Beecham 4/29/1879 - 3/8/1961 English conductor and impresario
88	Harold Urey 4/29/1893 - 1/5/1981 American Nobel-Prize winning chemist (1934); helped develop the atom bomb
72	Sir Malcolm Sargent 4/29/1895 - 10/3/1967 English orchestra conductor
75	Duke Ellington 4/29/1899 - 5/24/1974 American composer, bandleader and pianist; a founder of big-band jazz
90	Fred Zinnemann 4/29/1907 - 3/14/1997 Austrian-born American motion-picture director
72	George Allen 4/29/1918 - 12/31/1990 American professional football coach