April 29 Historical Events
The following events took place on April 29. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.
- 1970Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
- 1974Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
- 1975Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
- 1975Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
- 1986A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
- 1986Chernobyl disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
- 1991A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
- 1992Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
- 1997The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
- 1999The Avala Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- 2004Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
- 2004Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
- 2005Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.dubious date=April 2015
- 2011The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 2013A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
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