Volume 15 , Issue 17

On This Day In History - 29 April (1429-1992)

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.

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.)

1945 American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

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.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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