Today in History - April 29
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1289 Apr 29,
Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1429 Apr 29, Joan of Arc led
French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred
Years’ War. Legend has it that King Charles VII of France had a suit of
armor made for Joan at a cost of 100 war horses. In 1996 a suit of
armor was found and proposed to be Joan’s armor.
(ATC, p.107) (SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10) (AP, 4/29/98)(HN,
4/29/98)
1522 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V
named Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1535 Apr 29, John Houghton,
English, was executed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1550 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V
gave inquisitors additional authority.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1553 Apr 29, A Flemish woman
introduced to England the practice of starching linen.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1584 Apr 29, Melchior Teschner,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1623 Apr 29, 11 Dutch ships
departed for the conquest of Peru.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1624 Apr 29, Louis XIII appointed
Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1636 Apr 29, Esaias Reusner,
composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1661 Apr 29, Chinese Ming dynasty
occupied Taiwan.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1667 Apr 29, John Arbuthnot
(d.1735), Scottish mathematician, was born. With Alexander Pope,
Jonathan Swift, John Gay and Thomas Parnell he founded the Scriblerus
Club in 1714, whose purpose was to satirize bad poetry and pedantry.
The club was short-lived.
(http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Arbuthnot.html)
(MC, 4/29/02)
1672 Apr 29, King Louis XIV of
France invaded the Netherlands.
(HN, 4/29/99)
1676 Apr 29, Michiel A. de Ruyter
(69), Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), was killed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1707 Apr 29, English-Scottish
parliament accepted Act of Union and formed Great Britain. [see May 1]
(MC, 4/29/02)
1727 Apr 29, Jean-Georges Noverre,
French dancer, choreographer (ballet d'action), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1745 Apr 29, Oliver Ellsworth,
third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1769 Apr 29, The Duke of
Wellington (1769-1852) was born.
(CFA, '96, p.44)
1781 Apr 29, French fleet stopped
Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1783 Apr 29, David Cox (d.1857),
English watercolorist, was born. He books included “Treatise on
Landscape Painting” (1813).
(SFC, 4/29/97,
p.B5)(www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Cox_David/Cox_David.htm)
1784 Apr 29, Premiere of Mozart's
Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna).
(MC, 4/29/02)
1798 Apr 28, Joseph Haydn's
oratorio "The Creation" was rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an
invited audience.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1813 Apr 29, Rubber was patented.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1834 Apr 29, Charles Darwin's
expedition saw the top of Andes from Patagonia.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1842 Apr 29, Karl Millocker,
conductor, composer (Beggar Student), was born in Austria.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1852 Apr 29, The first edition of
Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was published. Roget (1779-1869) was a
London physician of French-Swiss ancestry who began to collect and
organize English words to improve his public speaking.
(HN, 4/29/98)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.B1)
1854 Apr 29, Henri Poincare
(1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, was born. He
investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too
complex for mathematics. Rather space is an assumption, and it can be
described and controlled only so far as we assume it. In other words
there is no such thing as space. Instead, there are as many spaces as
there are people... for every person can assume an indefinite number of
different spaces.
(V.D.-H.K.p.272)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9)
1855 Apr 29, Anatol K. Liadov,
Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS], was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1856 Apr 29, During the Tule River
War Yokut Indians repelled a second attack by the 'Petticoat Rangers,'
a band of civilian Indian fighters-some wearing body armor-at Four
Creeks, California. The Yokuts lived along the shores of Tulare Lake in
the Central Valley, which disappeared by 1900 due to water diversion
and farming.
(HN, 4/29/00)(WW, 6/99)
1856 Apr 29, A peace treaty
between England and Russia was signed.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1858 Apr 29, Austrian troops
invaded Piedmont (Italy).
(HN, 4/29/98)
1859 Apr 29, In the Italian
Campaign some 150,000 Piedmontese troops invaded Piedmontese territory
as the French army raced to support them and the Austrian army
mobilized to oppose them.
(HN, 4/29/00)
1860 Apr 29, Lorado Taft, US
sculptor (Black Hawk), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1861 Apr 29, The Maryland House of
Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1862 Apr 29, Forts Philip and
Jackson surrendered to Union forces under Admiral Farragut outside New
Orleans.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1862 Apr 29, 100,000 federal
troops prepared to march into Corinth, Miss.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1863 Apr 29, William Randolph
Hearst (d.1951), American newspaper publisher, was born. He helped
launch the Spanish-American War. "Any man who has the brains to think
and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is
considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and
willing to endure disaster." In 1998 Ben Proctor authored “William
Randolph Hearst – The Early Years, 1863-1910.”
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFEM, 12/12/98, p.8)(AP, 5/1/99)
1868 Apr 29, The US government and
the Sioux Indians signed another treaty that ended Red Cloud’s War, but
it did not last long. The treaty at Fort Laramie (Wyoming) made the
Black Hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
(www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17638/1146/8)(Econ,
8/2/08, p.37)(AH, 6/03, p.36)
1877 Apr 29, Tad Dorgen,
cartoonist and columnist, was born.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1879 Apr 29, Sir Thomas Beecham,
founder of London Philharmonic, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1893 Apr 29, Harold C. Urey,
physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), was born in Indiana.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1894 Apr 29, The Commonweal of
Christ, called Coxey's Army, arrived in Wash, DC, 500 strong to protest
unemployment; Coxey was arrested for trespassing at Capitol.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1895 Apr 29, Malcolm Sargent,
English conductor (Promenade Concerts), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1899 Apr 29, Edward Kennedy "Duke"
Ellington (d.1975), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington
D.C. His compositions included "Take the A Train."
(HN, 4/4/98)(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.32) (AP, 4/29/99)
1901 Apr 29, Hirohito, emperor of
Japan (1926-1989), was born.
(HN, 4/29/99)(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, In the 27th Kentucky
Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence won in 2:07.75.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, Anti Semitic riot
took place in Budapest.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1907 Apr 29, Fred Zinnemann
(d.3/14/97), Hollywood film director, was born in Vienna. His films
included “A Hatful of Rain,” “The Sundowners,” “The Nun’s Story,” “From
Here to Eternity,” “Julia” and “A Man for All Seasons” (1966) with Paul
Scofield.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(AP, 4/29/07)
1909 Apr 29, Tom Ewell, [S Yewell
Tompkins], actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch), was born in Ky.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1912 Apr 29, Henri Poincare
(d.1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, died. He
investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too
complex for mathematics. In 2002 Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman
solved the 1904 Poincare Conjecture. In 2007 Donal O’Shea authored “The
Poincare Conjecture.”
(V.D.-H.K.p.272)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9)
1913 Apr 29, Gideon Sundback of
Hoboken patented an all-purpose zipper. The name was coined by B.F.
Goodrich, who used it to fasten rubber galoshes. [see Apr 21]
(HN, 4/29/98)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)
1916 Apr 29, The Easter Rising in
Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British
authorities. Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
during Easter Uprising.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)(MC, 4/29/02)
1918 Apr 29, America's WWI Ace of
Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scored his first victory with the help of
Captain James Norman Hall. He eventually racked up 26 victories before
the end of the war.
(HN, 4/29/99)
1922 Apr 29, A 100-mile-long
battle raged near Peking, China.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1924 Apr 29, Open revolt broke out
in Santa Clara, Cuba.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1927 Apr 29, Construction of the
Spirit of St Louis was completed. B.F. Mahoney was the ‘mystery man’
behind the Ryan Aeronautical Company that built Lindbergh’s Spirit of
St. Louis. Engineer Donald Hall designed the $10,580 plane to carry 400
gallons of fuel.
(HN, 4/29/98)(ON, 2/08, p.1)
1930 Apr 29, The film “All Quiet
on the Western Front,” based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel “Im
Western Nichts Neues,” premiered.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1930 Apr 29, Telephone connection
England-Australia went into service.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1933 Apr 29, Constantine Cavafy
(b.1863), Greek poet, died in Alexandria, Egypt. The 1996 Greek film
"Cavafy" was a profile of the Greek homosexual poet, and a winner of
Greece’s National Film Award for best feature of the year. Cavafy spent
30 years working as a clerk in the Ministry of Irrigation. In 2006 “The
Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy,” translated by Aliki Barstone, was
published.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.E4)(SSFC, 6/24/01, DB
p.64)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kafavis.htm)
1935 Apr 29, It was reported that
live rabbits were being sewn onto dog-track racing machines in the San
Francisco Bay Area counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara.
(SSFC, 4/25/10, DB p.54)
1936 Apr 29, Zubin Mehta,
conductor (NY Philharmonic 1976), was born in Bombay, India.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1939 Apr 29, Whitestone Bridge,
connecting Bronx and Queens, opened.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Robert Sherwood's
"There Shall be No Night," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Norwegian King Haakon
and government fled to England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1942 Apr 29, Japanese troops
marched into Lashio and cut off the Burma Road.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Noel Coward's
"Present Laughter," premiered in London.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Internationally
prominent theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer was arrested by Nazis.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Karl Adrian Wohlfart
(68), composer, died.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, American soldiers
liberated 31,601 in the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp; that same
day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz
his successor.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, The German Army in
Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Venice and Mestre were
captured by the Allies. In 1956 Norman Kogan, historian at the Univ of
Connecticut, wrote "Italy and the Allies."
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFC, 9/21/99, p.E4)(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, Japanese army
evacuated Rangoon.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1946 Apr 29, In Japan 28 former
leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being
sentenced to death.
(HN, 4/29/98)(AP, 4/29/07)
1947 Apr 29, Irving Fisher
(b.1867), American economist, died. His Fisher hypothesis is the
proposition that the real interest rate is independent of monetary
measures, especially the nominal interest rate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher)
1951 Apr 29, Ludwig Wittgenstein
(b.1889), Austrian-born philosopher, died in Cambridge, England. His
“Tractatus Logico-Philosophicos” (1921) purported to address all of
philosophy’s major problems. His posthumous work was edited by
Elizabeth Uncombed (d.2001), and included his "Philosophical
Investigations" (1953).
(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C4)(WSJ, 2/28/09,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein)
1957 Apr 29, The 1st military
nuclear power plant was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Daniel Day-Lewis,
actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot), was born in England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Michelle Pfeiffer,
actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1959 Apr 29, Premier Castro denied
any Cuban role, direct or indirect, in a Panamanian invasion.
(DBD, p.824)
1961 Apr 29, ABC's "Wide World of
Sports made its debut.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.38)(MC, 4/29/02)
1961 Apr 29, The diesel-powered
aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned at the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard. In 1976 the ship was drydocked in Bremerton, Wa., for a
year-long overhaul.
(AP,
8/5/05)(www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/history/history.html)
1962 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony
Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1965 Apr 29, Seattle experienced
an earthquake. 7 people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5
million.
(http://neic.usgs.gov)
1965 Apr 29, Australian government
announced it would send troops to Vietnam.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1968 Apr 29, The counterculture
musical "Hair" opened on Broadway following limited engagements
off-Broadway.
(AP, 4/29/08)
1968 Apr 29, Dr. Ralph Abernathy
led The Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C., less than a month
after the assassination of King. It concluded on June 23. The campaign
was for reforms in welfare, employment and housing policies. Abernathy
was the successor to Rev. Martin Luther King as head of the Southern
Christian Leadership conference.
(HNQ, 1/19/99)
1970 Apr 29, Andre Agassi, tennis
star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born in Las
Vegas, Nev.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi)
1970 Apr 29, Uma Thurman, actress,
was born in Boston, Mass. Her films included “The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen” (1988) and “Pulp Fiction” (1994).
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000235/)
1970 Apr 29, In Australia a large
wooden log was placed on the winding track in front of a royal train
carrying Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip to the town of
Orange. The train did not derail as it was traveling too slowly. The
incident was only revealed in 2009 by a retired detective.
(AFP, 1/28/09)
1970 Apr 29, 50,000 US and South
Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia [see Apr 30].
(SFEC, 4/23/00,
p.A19)(www.democraticcentral.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1972)
1971 Apr 29, Bill Graham announced
the close of the Fillmore in SF and the Fillmore East in NYC along with
his retirement from concert promotion. He was angered by his perceived
greed of rock bands and the anger and distrust of his audience. He soon
relented and put on shows with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Pink
Floyd, the Who and the Grateful Dead. The final concert at Fillmore
East took place on June 27.
(SFC,12/13/97,
p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_East)
1974 Apr 29, President Nixon
announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made
White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1975 Apr 29, US forces pulled out
of Vietnam. The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North
Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon. Just hours after the
last American was lifted out by helicopter from the roof of the
embassy, James Reston of the NY Times issued an apologia for the press.
NVA shell Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon, killing two U.S. Marines at
the compound gate. Conditions then deteriorate as South Vietnamese
civilians loot the air base. President Ford orders Operation Frequent
Wind, the helicopter evacuation of 7000 Americans and South Vietnamese
from Saigon. At Tan Son Nhut, frantic civilians begin swarming the
helicopters. The evacuation is then shifted to the walled-in American
embassy, which is secured by U.S. Marines in full combat gear. But the
scene there also deteriorates, as thousands of civilians attempt to get
into the compound. Three U.S. aircraft carriers stand by off the coast
of Vietnam to handle incoming Americans and South Vietnamese refugees.
Many South Vietnamese pilots also land on the carriers, flying
American-made helicopters which are then pushed overboard to make room
for more arrivals.
(WSJ, 10/5/98,
p.A21)(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1975 Apr 29, The last four
Americans killed in action in Vietnam included two Marines: Lance
Corporal Darwin Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Corporal Charles
McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts, by rocket and artillery
bombardment following an air raid on Tan Son Nhut. Two Marine
helicopter pilots died when their chopper crashed into the sea near an
aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig
Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea
of El Paso, Texas.
(www.dixiedavis.com/michaelshea.htm)
1977 Apr 29, Donald Evans
(b.1945), American artist, died in a fire in the Netherlands. His work
included the creation of postage stamp series for imaginary countries.
(WSJ, 2/5/03,
p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Evans_(artist))
1979 Apr 29, Democracy was
restored in Ecuador. Jaime Roldos Aguilera was elected as president in
a 2nd round of voting. He was killed in plane crash in 1981.
(AP, 4/21/05)(Econ, 10/14/06,
p.39)(www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/ecu79pres.html)
1980 Apr 29, Alfred Joseph
Hitchcock (b.1899), British director (Psycho, Birds), died in Los
Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)
1981 Apr 29, Truck driver Peter
Sutcliffe (b.1946) admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire
Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year
period. He was convicted on May 22 and sentenced to serve a minimum of
30 years.
(AP, 4/29/00)(AP, 1/13/04)
1982 Apr 29, The Dance Committee
of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International
Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The aim of
International Dance Day is to celebrate dance as an art form and to
bring people together in peace and friendship through the shared
language of dance. The date was chosen in commemoration of the death of
the greatly influential dancer, choreographer and innovator
Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810).
(http://www.pch.gc.ca/arts/dance/danse_e.htm)
1982 Apr 29, Alfredo Magana was
elected president of El Salvador.
(www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/ced-timeline-1982.html)
1983 Apr 29, Harold Washington was
sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1986 Apr 29, Some 350,000 books
were damaged by fire and water in the LA Central Library.
(http://tinyurl.com/y3ssgk)
1986 Apr 29, Seamus McElwaine
(25), Irish IRA-terrorist, was killed by undercover members of the
British Army in County Fermanagh.
(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1986.html)
1988 Apr 29, Molloko, the 1st
California condor chick conceived in captivity, was born in the San
Diego Zoo.
(www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:6703253)
1988 Apr 29, McDonald's announced
it would open its first restaurants in Moscow.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1988 Apr 29, James McCracken (61),
US tenor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCracken)
1988 Apr 29, In Pakistan Pres.
Zia-ul Haq dismissed the government Mohammed Khan Junejo on charges of
incompetence.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A9)
1989 Apr 29, In a sign that
student demonstrators in Beijing had gained influence, China's
government conducted informal talks with leaders of the democracy
protests, and then televised the discussions.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1990 Apr 29, The space shuttle
Discovery landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a
mission which included deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1991 Apr 29, US troops continued
airlifting Iraqi refugees from a camp in southern Iraq to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1991 Apr 29, George Sperti (91),
inventor of Preparation H, died.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-so.htm)
1991 Apr 29-1991 Apr 31, A cyclone
in Bangladesh killed an estimated 131,000 people. 9 million were left
homeless. Thousands of survivors died from hunger and water borne
disease.
(http://tinyurl.com/duk2u)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1991 Apr 29, More than 100 people
were killed and some 100,000 were left homeless when a strong
earthquake struck Soviet Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1992 Apr 29, "Falsettos" opened at
John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4686)
1992 Apr 29, Exxon executive
Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, N.J., home by
Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security official, and Seale's wife,
Irene, and held for ransom; Reso died in captivity. Arthur Seale is
serving a 95-year prison term, while his wife is serving a 20-year
sentence.
(AP, 4/29/02)
1992 Apr 29, Deadly rioting
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. White truck driver Reginald Denny
was beaten by a mob in south Central LA angered by the acquittal of 4
police officers caught on video tape in the beating of black motorist
Rodney King. Three days of violence ensued with 55 people killed, 2,300
injured and an estimated $1 billion [$717 million] in property damages.
Rioters tore through the city following the not guilty verdicts on
state charges for Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Stacey C. Koon
and officer Laurence M. Powell for beating Rodney King. 1093 buildings
were damaged or destroyed. Of these, 764 retail stores were owned by
Koreans. The US Congress later authorized $1 billion to revitalize
south central Los Angeles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A4)(SFC,
1/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.CA1)(AP,
4/29/98)(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A3)
1993 Apr 29, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II announced that, for the first time, Buckingham Palace
would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at
fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1994 Apr 29, Israel and the PLO
signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to
set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza
Strip and Jericho.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1994 Apr 29, A ferry boat capsized
near Mombasa, Kenya, and 272 people were killed.
(http://65.18.147.106/archive/102002/msg00163.html)
1994 Apr 29, Hundreds of thousands
of refugees fleeing the terror of ethnic massacres in Rwanda were
pouring into Tanzania.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1995 Apr 29, 10 days after the
blast, rescue workers in Oklahoma City continued the grim task of
searching for bodies and pulling debris from the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building, where 168 people died.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1996 Apr 29, "Rent" opened at
Nederlander Theater in NYC.
(www.broadway.com/_grp/groups_show.aspx?SI=1257)
1996 Apr 29, Opening ceremonies
were held for The Stratosphere Tower of Robert Stupak in Las Vegas. The
structure rises 1,149 feet. The last 149 feet consist of a needle
perched atop a swollen bulb.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-3)
1997 Apr 29, The Global Anti-Golf
Movement, GAG’M, proclaimed a World No-Golf Day.
(Hem., 1/97, p.47)
1997 Apr 29, Staff Sgt. Delmar
Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was
convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years
in prison and dishonorably discharged.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1997 Apr 29, A worldwide treaty to
ban chemical weapons went into effect.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, Astronaut Jerry
Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian
space walk.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, It was reported that
a monster fountain of antimatter was discovered erupting from the core
of the Milky Way. Observations from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
launched by NASA in 1991 made the observations since last November.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A5)
1997 Apr 29, Newspaper columnist
Mike Royko died in Chicago at age 64.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, In Brazil a court
injunction stopped the privatization of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce,
the huge state-owned mining company. Some 1,000 demonstrators protested
the attempted privatization in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.A11)
1997 Apr 29, In China at
Rongjiawan in Hunan province a train crash killed at least 67 and
injured 260 people.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 29, The French oil
company Total signed a $2 billion contract to explore for gas in Iran
despite warnings from the Clinton administration.
(SFC, 9/30/97, p.A14)
1997 Apr 29, In Indonesia police
broke up a demonstration and 5 activists were given 7-13 year prison
terms on charges of subversion.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A10)
1998 Apr 29, The United States,
Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for
$1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris of the North American Free
Trade Agreement.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1998 Apr 29, The US and European
powers decided to impose new sanctions and agreed to freeze the assets
of Yugoslavia. A ban on investments would follow in 10 days if security
police was not withdrawn from Kosova.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court
called for ending judicial delays of execution in a 5-4 vote. This
reversed the US Court of Appeals Aug, 1997, reprieve for Thomas
Thompson, accused of the 1981 murder of Ginger Fleischli in California
and reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 29, In England it was
reported that Nicholas van Hoogstraten was building the largest and
most expensive house of the century in Sussex, named Hamilton Place at
a cost of $50 million. The palace was to include a gallery for his
French furniture and a mausoleum for his future.
(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1998 Apr 29, British writer
Douglas Adams, author of the 1979 classic “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy,” began marketing his CD-ROM game “Starship Titanic.”
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E1)
1998 April 29, Israel formally
opened the celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding.
According to the Gregorian calendar, the anniversary fell on May 14th.
(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
1998 Apr 29, In the Philippines
Imelda Marco withdrew from the presidential race.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1999 Apr 29, Rev. Jesse Jackson
and a delegation of religious leaders arrived in Belgrade to talk with
Pres. Milosevic concerning the release of 3 captured Americans.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, The US decided to
sell an early-warning radar system to Taiwan.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D4)
1999 Apr 29, US planes bombed
sites in the no-fly zone of northern Iraq after being attacked by
missiles and anti-aircraft fire. Iraq said 20 civilians were injured in
Mosul and 4 in separate attacks in the south.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D8)
1999 Apr 29, NATO jets struck
Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade and the federal interior
ministry. A telecommunications tower was hit and knocked Serbian TV off
the air.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Bulgaria an errant
NATO HARM missile hit a home in Gorna Banya on the outskirts of Sofia.
There were no casualties.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13,D2)
1999 Apr 29, China announced that
1.6 million people would be allowed to move to Hong Kong over the next
10-13 years.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D7)
1999 Apr 29, In Colombia a 2,500
member group of the Embera-Katio Indians called for a safe haven in
Europe due to the civil war in their homeland.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.B1)
1999 Apr 29, In Macedonia another
6,500 refugees arrived. 3 refugees were killed by a mine as they
attempted to cross the border northwest of Blace.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, In Japan Honda
announced that its last EV Plus electric car was built in March.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Russia Pres.
Yeltsin approved a plan for upgrading thousands of short-range or
tactical nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D5)
1999 Apr 29, Yugoslavia filed
World Court cases against 10 countries, including the United States,
claiming their bombing campaign breached international law.
(AP, 4/29/00)
2000 Apr 29, Lennox Lewis knocked
out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New
York to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, Tens of thousands of
angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana,
protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked six-year-old
Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, In Washington DC some
1000 gay and lesbian couples proclaimed their love at the Lincoln
Memorial as part of the events leading to the 4th annual Millennium
March the next day.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A13)
2000 Apr 29, In Chechnya Alman
Mesiyev, the mayor of Khattuni, was shot at close range by rebels for
cooperating with Russian troops.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 29, In Malaysia a court
upheld the 1999 corruption conviction against former finance minister
Anwar Ibrahim.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 29, In Pakistan it was
reported that the worst drought in 100 years ravaged southern Sindh and
Baluchistan provinces. Up to 500 people were dead from diseases related
to the drought.
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A14)
2000 Apr 29, In the Philippines
fighting on Basilan Island left 4 soldiers dead and 27 wounded. On Sulu
Island kidnappers made a written demands that included the return of
barter trade to the southern Philippines, a ban on large fishing boats
to protect local fishermen, and full implementation of a 1976 agreement
that called for a 13-province Muslim autonomous region.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.C14)
2000 Apr 29, In Vietnam Pham Van
Dong, former revolutionary and prime minister, died at age 94.
(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A24)
2001 Apr 29, Nasa scientists
reported that they had contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched in
1972, after 8 months of no communication.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 29, The International
Monetary Fund endorsed a program to establish better procedures to
prevent a repeat of the 1997-98 Asian currency crisis that plunged
two-fifths of the world into recession.
(AP, 4/29/02)
2001 Apr 29, China offered to
allow US officials to inspect the US Navy spy plane on Hainan Island.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, Sri Lanka appealed
for peace talks following bloody battles and retreats in the north.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, In Uganda Pres.
Museveni withdrew from a peace pact in anger over a UN report on
plundering.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, A year after the loss
of a seat it had held for over 50 years, the United States won election
to the UN Human Rights Commission.
(WSJ, 4/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
2002 Apr 29, US forces in
Afghanistan engaged al Qaeda fighters near the Pakistan border and
killed 4.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, The 1st 20 of some
2000 US soldiers landed in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, Two suits were filed
against Cardinal Roger Mahoney of LA for violation of racketeering laws
by protecting priests who molested children.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, Britain decided to
treat al Qaeda and Taliban fighters as prisoners of war and turn them
over to the interim Afghan government.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2002 Apr 29, Israeli forces went
into Hebron and at least 9 people were killed and dozens arrested. It
was a retaliation for the Apr 27 attack.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, In Liberia Pres.
Taylor suspended all political activity. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, leader
of the opposition Unity Party, returned to Liberia to gear up for
elections.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, In Madagascar the
High Court ruled that opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana received over
51% of the vote in December and that Pres. Ratsiraka won close to 36%.
Ratsiraka said he would not abide by the vote.
(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, Turkey officially
agreed to take command of the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2003 Apr 29, Pres. Bush embraced a
plan for a $15 billion AIDS initiative that included money for groups
that promote birth control and abortion.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A3)
2003 Apr 29, The US said it would
withdraw all combat forces from Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A14)
2003 Apr 29, The governor of
Virginia signed a tough anti-spam law that called for prison and asset
seizures.
(WSJ, 4/30/03, A1)
2003 Apr 29, Tyco Corp. reported
some $1.2 billion in fresh accounting problems on top of some $265-325
million reported in March. [See Sep 29]
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R9)
2003 Apr 29, The World Health
Organization ended its warning that travelers avoid Toronto, Canada.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, China reported 9 more
deaths and more than 200 new cases, most of them in the capital Beijing.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, In Colombia the high
court has stripped President Alvaro Uribe of the emergency powers he
assumed last year to battle leftist rebels.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, Croatian wartime army
chief Janko Bobetko (84), hailed at home as a hero of Croatia's 1991
struggle for independence but charged with war crimes by a UN court,
died.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, The leaders of
France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, all critics of the U.S.-led
war on Iraq, agreed to beef up their military cooperation in an effort
to make Europe's defense less reliant on the US.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Indian troops raided
a base of suspected Islamic militants in Kashmir, sparking a firefight
that lasted more than five hours and resulted in 17 deaths.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Pakistani police
arrested six men linked to al-Qaeda, including a Yemeni man, Tawfiq
Attash Khallad (Waleed bin Attash), wanted in connection with the Sept.
11 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole.
(AP, 4/30/03)(WSJ, 5/1/03, A1)(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, The Palestinian
parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister, clearing the final
obstacle to the launch of a U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, A Palestinian suicide
bombing killed 3 Israelis in a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber,
Asif Hanif (21), grew up in Britain. A 2nd bomber escaped.
(AP, 4/30/03)(SFC, 5/2/03, p.A8)
2003 Apr 29, Qataris voted on
their first permanent constitution.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2004 Apr 29, The US Sep 11 panel
held a joint interview behind closed doors with Pres. Bush and VP
Cheney.
(WSJ, 4/29/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, A national monument
to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II
opened to the public in Washington DC. Official dedication was set for
May 29.
(AP, 4/29/04)(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2004 Apr 29, GM ended production
of its Oldsmobile line (b.1897), named after Ransom E. Olds. The last
Olds Alero rolled of a GM assembly line in Lansing, Mich.
(SFC, 4/28/04, p.C1)
2004 Apr 29, Google unveiled an
IPO that could raise as much as $2.7 billion.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Cleanup crews arrived
at Suisun Marsh in the SF Bay area to tackle an estimated 60,000 gallon
diesel fuel spill from a pipeline operated by Kinder Morgan Energy
Partners of Houston, Texas.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Thousands of Cubans,
young and old, played their favorite game into the night to break the
world record for most people playing chess simultaneously.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, US Marines announced
an agreement to end a bloody, nearly month long siege of Fallujah,
saying American forces will pull back and allow an all-Iraqi force
commanded by one of Saddam Hussein's generals to take over security.
Elsewhere 10 U.S. soldiers were killed, 8 of them from a car bomb south
of Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/04)(WSJ, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, In Peru 800 people in
a village near Lake Titicaca took five aldermen hostage Thursday after
their mayor fled in fear of his life.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, A Russian court
acquitted 4 commando officers in the shooting deaths of 6 Chechen
civilians, after the officers admitted in court that they mistakenly
opened fire on their vehicle and set the car on fire to conceal the
incident based on orders from superiors.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2005 Apr 29, NASA again delayed
the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster, worrying
that ice falling off fuel tank could doom Discovery.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, Apple began selling
the Tiger operating system, OS X version 10.4, for the Mac computer.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.C1)
2005 Apr 29, Afghan security
forces opened fire during a celebration in a western city, killing a
mother and her daughter. In central Afghanistan an airstrike on a
suspected insurgent camp killed three civilians and four militants. A
bomb tore through a jeep carrying Afghan anti-drug police in eastern
Afghanistan, killing 3 officers and injuring two more, in the first
deadly attack on the country's new counter-narcotics forces.
(AP, 4/30/05)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, In Colombia
government troops consolidated their grip on Tacuejo, a mountain town
retaken from leftist rebels, and the town's Indian residents slowly
began to return despite fears of more violence.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The German government
finally scaled back its 2005 growth forecasts, acknowledging that its
earlier prognosis had been too optimistic in face of high oil prices
and an unexpected economic contraction at the end of last year.
(AFP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, An audiotape
purportedly by America's most-wanted insurgent in Iraq, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, posted on the Internet and threatened more attacks against
U.S. forces and urges followers to be wary of any American attempts at
dialogue.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents staged a
series of car bombings and other attacks, killing at least 41 people,
including three US soldiers, a day after the country's first
democratically elected government was approved.
(AP, 4/29/05)(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, India signed a pact
with the United Nations to combat HIV infections among military
personnel after defense authorities sounded a health alert last week.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The head of India's
new task force, fighting to save the nation's dwindling stock of
tigers, said the big cats were on the verge of extinction, because of
rampant poaching for their body parts.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents set off at
least 17 bombs in Iraq, killing at least 50 people, including 5 US
soldiers, in a series of attacks aimed at shaking Iraq's newly formed
government.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.A1)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy and the United
States said they had failed to agree on whether U.S. soldiers were at
fault in the death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
(AP, 4/30/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy slashed its
2005 growth forecast by almost half to 1.2 percent and warned its
budget deficit could hit 4 percent of gross domestic product.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Japanese PM Junichiro
Koizumi wooed India, aiming to build a partnership with New Delhi to
cope with the growing clout of China in a changing continent.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Heavy rains in
western Romania have flooded hundreds of villages, forcing 3,700 people
to abandon their homes and disrupting rail and road traffic.
(Reuters, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Russian President
Vladimir Putin laid a wreath on the late-Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's tomb and held talks with Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas,
but Palestinians held out little hope for concrete results.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Sri Lanka's
government ordered a "full-scale investigation" into the slaying of a
senior Tamil journalist who was abducted overnight as he left a
restaurant.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The UN health agency
reported 18 new cases of polio in Yemen and said more people are
believed infected, sparking fears of an epidemic in the Middle Eastern
country with a low immunization rate among children.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Vietnam marked the
30th anniversary of war's end.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Thousands of US
anti-war demonstrators converged on lower Manhattan to call for an
immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A rock slide at
Ferguson Ridge, 8 miles west of El Portal, Ca., shut down the Highway
140 connection to Yosemite National Park.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 29, John Kenneth
Galbraith (97), an influential liberal Canadian-born economist and
author, died in Massachusetts. His more than 40 works included
“American Capitalism” (1952), "The Affluent Society" (1958), in which
he argued that the US had become rich in consumer goods but poor in
social services and “The New Industrial State” (1967).
(Reuters, 4/30/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.86)
2006 Apr 29, Afghan security
forces clashed with Taliban militants hiding in a cave complex in the
southern Helmand province, killing 11 insurgents after militants killed
three policemen and wounded another in an ambush. An Afghan cell phone
company confirmed that an Indian contractor was being held hostage by
the Taliban. Afghan soldiers and police attacked a Taliban camp co
miles north of Lashkar Gah and killed at least 2 militants.
(AP, 4/30/06)(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, Bolivia's new
left-leaning president, Evo Morales, signed a pact with Cuba and
Venezuela on rejecting US-backed free trade and promising a socialist
version of regional commerce and cooperation. Bolivia became the 3rd
member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
(AP, 4/29/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.38)
2006 Apr 29, A cyclone hit Burma
with 150 mph winds. Scattered deaths and injuries were reported.
(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, A coalition of
Chinese Web activists launched a petition decrying censorship of the
Internet and challenging the legality of government information
controls on China's more than 100 million net users.
(Reuters, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, In northwestern China
a gas explosion at a coal mine killed at least 30 miners and left eight
missing at the Wayaobao Coal Mine in Shaanxi province.
(AP, 4/30/06)(AP, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, It was reported that
just over 8% of workers in France belonged to a trade union compared
with 12% in America and nearly 30% in Britain.
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.54)
2006 Apr 29, In Hong Kong while
riding a bus Elvis Ho asked Roger Chan to lower his voice while talking
on his cellphone. Chan proceeded to berate Ho for nearly 6 minutes and
the encounter was captured on video camera by another passenger, Jon
Fong. The video became famous as “Bus Uncle.” Some phrases in the
video, such as “I’ve got pressure” and “It’s not over,” quickly became
part of Hong Kong’s lexicon.
(WSJ, 6/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 29, In central India 13
people abducted by insurgents were found dead but 37 others were freed.
2 people were found dead a day earlier. Rebels had abducted 52 people
from a single village in the district of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh
state on April 25.
(AFP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Iraq 6 people were
killed in scattered violence. A top Iraqi official said sectarian
violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their
homes. A US Army soldier died when a roadside bomb hit his convoy near
Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Kyrgyzstan
thousands of protesters demanding reform gathered in the main square in
Bishkek but dispersed peacefully after President Bakiyev and PM Felix
Kulov addressed the crowd.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Newly returned
Nepalese legislators demanded that King Gyanendra be stripped of
control over the 90,000-strong army, fearing he could use it to regain
power after his recent concession to weeks of pro-democracy protests.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A car bombing in the
Nigerian oil city of Warri destroyed at least five tanker trucks. The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which demands
more local control over the southern delta's oil wealth, said it had
used a mobile phone to detonate 30 kg (66 lb) of dynamite in the
bombing.
(Reuters, 4/30/06)
2006 Apr 29, North Korea claimed
that the US conducted about 160 spy flights against the communist state
this month.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Peru recalled its
ambassador from Venezuela over what it called President Hugo Chavez's
"persistent and flagrant interference" in its upcoming presidential
elections.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In the Philippines
military intelligence agents captured Abdasil Malangka Dima, an alleged
member of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, in Isabela, the
capital of the southern island province of Basilan. He was allegedly
involved in the abduction of three Americans, including a missionary
couple, from a resort five years ago.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A Qatar newspaper
reported that Qatar has frozen bilateral free trade talks with the US,
saying Washington was imposing preconditions that were not in Doha's
interest.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki
to suspend enriching uranium and ensure full-scale cooperation with the
UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, The UN said reports
of a Ugandan army incursion into Congo were "credible" after
peacekeepers conducted a verification mission in the remote
northeastern border region.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Scientists tried to
discover why some 400 dolphins washed up dead on a beach popular with
tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.
(AP, 4/29/06)(WSJ, 4/29/06, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, A stretch of highway
near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after a gasoline
tanker crashed and burst into flames, leaving one of the nation's
busiest spans in a state of near paralysis. Officials said traffic
could be disrupted for months. Driver James Mosqueda (51) managed to
away with 2nd degree burns.
(AP, 4/29/07)(SFC, 5/1/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, In Kansas City, Mo.,
David W. Logsdon, driving a dead woman’s car, was shot and killed by
police after he killed 2 people in the parking lot of a mall.
(SFC, 4/30/07, p.A3)(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, St. Louis Cardinals
relief pitcher Josh Hancock, 29, was killed in the crash of his sport
utility vehicle.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, Hundreds of angry
protesters chanting "Death to Bush" demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan
after six people, including a woman and a teenage girl, were reportedly
killed when US-led coalition and Afghan forces raided a suspected car
bomb cell. Afghanistan's education minister said at least 85 students
and teachers were killed last year in attacks blamed on insurgents who
oppose education for girls and teaching boys anything other than
religion. In western Afghanistan coalition and Afghan forces attacked
the insurgents and called in an airstrike, destroying seven Taliban
positions and killing 87 fighters during a 14-hour engagement in Herat
province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Octavio Frias de
Oliveira (94), who published Brazil's biggest newspaper and Web site
and helped modernize the country's media, died of kidney failure.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In China 7 suspects
went on trial in the beating death of a reporter at an illegal coal
mine in northern Shanxi province. Lan Chengzhang was attacked along
with a colleague when they went to interview Hou Zhenrun, the owner of
the small unlicensed coal mine outside the northern city of Datong on
Jan 10. He died the next day from head injuries.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Colombia's navy made
the largest drug seizure in the nation's history as it uncovered up to
27 tons of cocaine buried along the Pacific coast.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Ethiopia 7 Chinese
oil workers and two Africans kidnapped during a rebel attack on a
Chinese oil field near the Somali border were released.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Egypt police
arrested two lawmakers and at least 10 other members of the banned
Muslim Brotherhood group as part of an ongoing campaign against the
country's strongest opposition group.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, American troops also
detained 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other
bomb-making materials during raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in Anbar
province. Britain said one of its soldiers was shot to death while on
patrol in southern Iraq. In Basra 5 people were reported killed by an
explosion. Iraqi police initially said it was a car bomb, but the
British military said it appeared the blast accidentally occurred while
explosives and weapons were being moved. A roadside bomb killed 3
American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter on a combat patrol in
eastern Baghdad. A Marine was killed during combat operations in Anbar
province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Japan and the
resources-rich United Arab Emirates agreed to launch a high-level
dialogue aimed at boosting economic ties and to speed up talks on a
free trade pact. Officials of the governmental Japan Bank for
International Cooperation decided to extend massive loans to Abu Dhabi
National Oil Co. in exchange for securing a stable oil supply for Japan.
(AP,
4/29/07)(http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070430a2.html)
2007 Apr 29, Saudi Arabia's King
Abdullah held an unannounced meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas to discuss the recent escalation in Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
Saudi Arabia banned the sale of concentrated fertilizer, a favorite
component of homemade terrorist bombs.
(AP, 4/30/07)(Econ, 5/5/07, p.60)
2007 Apr 29, Tamil Tiger rebels
bombed a fuel refinery and gasoline storage facility near the Sri
Lankan capital, and authorities cut power to the city. Hours later, the
military pounded rebel positions in the north.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Protests took place
around the world to demand that world leaders act to prevent further
bloodshed in Darfur on the fourth anniversary of the conflict's start.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Suspected Muslim
insurgents in southern Thailand killed two Buddhist villagers,
beheading one of them, and left a note saying the attack was revenge
for a deadly weekend bombing at a mosque.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Some 700,000 Turks
waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul to demand the
resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's
leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, President Hugo Chavez
said that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the
United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America,
part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil
supply.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2008 Apr 29, Sen. Barack Obama, US
presidential candidate, angrily repudiated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his
former pastor, for his recent remarks on race and US foreign policy.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, California’s Gov.
Gov. Schwarzenegger said the state deficit could grow to as much as $20
billion.
(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, James Woodward (55)
walked out of a Dallas court after DNA testing overturned his
conviction over 27 years ago for the murder and rape of his girlfriend.
(Reuters, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, The videogame “Grand
Theft Auto IV,” produced by Take-Two Interactive Software, hit the
stores with expectations of record sales. First week sales topped $50
million.
(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.B7)(WSJ, 5/8/08, p.B8)
2008 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomb tore through a team preparing to eradicate opium poppy
fields, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 40 others in
eastern Nangarhar province. 12 police officers were among the dead.
(AFP, 4/29/08)(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Australia's
government promised to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from
farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A Chinese court
jailed 30 people for terms ranging from three years to life for their
roles in Tibet's deadly riots, which triggered anti-China protests
across the globe ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, In China a newspaper
reported that thousands of children in southwest China have been sold
into slavery like "cabbages," to work as laborers in more prosperous
areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Colombia police
killed Victor Manuel Mejia in a raid at his ranch hideout. The
government initially said it was his brother Miguel Angel. Both were
wanted for extradition to the United States, with US$5 million rewards
for their capture. In 2009 Miguel Angel Mejia was extradited to the US
on drug trafficking charges.
(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 3/5/09, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Gastao Salsinha, the
leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate
President Jose Ramos-Horta, surrendered with 12 of his men, raising
hopes that the troubled young nation can find some rare stability.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, European nations
failed to convince Lithuania to allow the EU to launch talks on a new
partnership pact with Russia.
(AFP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, EU nations signed a
premembership trade-and-aid pact with Serbia to help pro-Western
parties win elections. The deal would only be implemented if Belgrade
fully cooperates with the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A11)
2008 Apr 29, A $7 billion gas
pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda as the
Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite
strong US objections to the project.
(AP, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, In Iraq a roadside
bomb hit Dhia Jodi Jaber, director general at the Ministry of Labor and
Social Affairs, as he left his Baghdad home in his car. Militants
killed the nephew of Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry
spokesman, and hanged the body from an electric pole in Baghdad. The
attack was in apparent retaliation for the spokesman's role in a
government crackdown against Shiite militias. US soldiers killed 28
militants during a four-hour firefight in Baghdad's Shiite militia
stronghold of Sadr City. 2 US were killed soldiers in separate attacks
in Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/08)(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 5/1/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Migrant rights
activists applauded a vote by Mexico's Congress to remove long-standing
criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country.
President Felipe Calderon's office declined to say whether he would
sign the popular measure into law.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Human rights watchdog
Amnesty International accused Mozambique police of killing and
torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with
growing crime.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, The International
Criminal Court in The Hague published an arrest warrant for Bosco
Ntaganda (35), known as "the Terminator," a Congo militia leader wanted
for allegedly using child soldiers.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Russia announced it
was beefing up its peacekeeping force in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia
and South Ossetia regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying
its forces for an attack.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Workers returned to
the Grangemouth refinery in central Scotland after a 48-hour strike
that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, An explosion in
southwestern Somalia killed four Ethiopian troops and the subsequent
gunfire killed two civilians.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Albert Hofmann (102),
the father of the mind-altering drug LSD, died. His medical discovery
inspired, and arguably corrupted, millions in the 1960s hippie
generation. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25
in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat
and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became
the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the
substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on
April 16, 1943. Hofmann to LSD for the last time when he was 97.
(AP, 4/30/08)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.21)
2008 Apr 29, In Taiwan the de
facto US envoy assured incoming president Ma Ying-jeou that Washington
will continue to back Taiwan militarily while it pushes for peace talks
with China.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A power outage left
wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity, including much of the
capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power
lines in the central state of Guarico.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2009 Apr 29, The Obama
administration joined a federal judge in urging Congress to end a
racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using
crack versus powdered cocaine.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, It was reported that
more than 50 million American retirees can expect to receive $250
payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of
the economic stimulus package enacted in February.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Florida Juwhan
Yun, a Korean American who had served prison time for attempting to
broker the sale of nerve gas bombs to Iran, was indicted in Miami on
charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket
technology.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, In New York Teresa
Tambunting of Scarsdale was charged with grand larceny and criminal
possession of stolen property. Prosecutors said she had stolen over $12
million in gold over six years from the Queens jewelry manufacturer
where she worked. Police found 450 pounds of gold at her home.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, The WHO raised its
alert for swine flu from level 4 to level 5, its 2nd highest alert
level. Austria and Germany confirmed cases of swine flu, becoming the
third and fourth European countries hit by the disease. US health
officials reported that a 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the
disease. The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting to
consider its pandemic alert level.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A8)
2009 Apr 29, In Afghanistan US-led
troops battled militants and announced they killed 42 suspected
insurgents. Two attacks on German forces killed one soldier and wounded
nine as Germany's foreign minister began a two-day visit to the country.
(AFP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Australia announced
it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about
1,550 as part of the US-led surge of international forces to bolster
the faltering fight against Taliban insurgents.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Two boats carrying
almost 80 people were intercepted off Australia's northern coast as the
conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry
into refugee policy.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain’s PM Gordon
Brown said it will boost its troops in Afghanistan to 9,000 to help the
country through upcoming elections, unveiling a new strategy for
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain and Libya
ratified a prisoner transfer deal that could potentially allow Abdel
Basset Ali al-Megrahi (57), the man convicted of the Lockerbie
bombings, to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the North
African country.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, The prime ministers
of China and Japan pledged to lay a stronger foundation for cooperation
between the historic Asian rivals amid global economic and health
crises.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, China Mobile said it
would buy 12% of Far EasTone Telecommunications, a big Taiwanese mobile
operator.
(Econ, 5/9/09, p.65)
2009 Apr 29, A Boeing 737 on a
test flight from Brazzaville crashed southeast of Kinshasa, killing 7
people.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Cuba a statement
published in state newspapers said that effective midnight, flights
from Cuba to Mexico would be grounded due to swine flu. After that,
airlines can fly presumably empty planes to the island and pickup
Mexico travels. This amended a blanket 48-hour ban on flights between
Mexico and Cuba announced a day earlier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Egypt began
slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country as a precautionary
measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been
reported here yet.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, An Iraqi-US patrol
was ambushed while distributing grants to Iraqi businesses near the
northern city of Kirkuk. Iraqi officials said two civilians were killed
when the Americans returned fire, but the US military said those killed
were enemy fighters. Five bombs hit various neighborhoods of Baghdad,
killing at least 48 people in another powerful strike by suspected
Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A2)
2009 Apr 29, Youssef Magied
al-Molqui, one of the 4 Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro
cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985, left prison in
Palermo, Sicily, after more than 23 years in jail. Ibrahim Fatayer
Abdelatif, another convicted Achille Lauro hijacker, was released last
year.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, Lebanon released four
generals held for nearly four years in the 2005 truck-bomb
assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri after a UN-backed tribunal in
the Netherlands ordered them freed, setting off celebrations with
fireworks and dancing.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Mexican police
arrested suspected Zeta gang leader Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, one of
Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traffickers.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, NATO and Russia
resumed formal contacts eight months after they were suspended because
of last year's war with Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Pakistani airstrikes
killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them
from the Buner district, within 60 miles (100 kilometers) of Islamabad.
Troops faced an estimated 450-500 militants in Buner and forecast that
the operation to drive them out would take about a week. Gun attacks in
the mega-city of Karachi killed at least 34 people and threatened to
ignite ethnic tension. 2 Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) activists were
gunned down by unknown shooters, sparking street violence.
(AP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, A South Korean
presidential advisory committee announced that South Korea will lift a
three-year ban on human stem cell research.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Sri Lanka the
visiting French and British foreign ministers urged Sri Lanka to accept
a cease-fire in its war with ethnic Tamil rebels, saying it needed to
act quickly to save the lives of civilians in the war zone.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Taiwan said it had
persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key UN body, offering a
victory for President Ma Ying-jeou's campaign to win greater
international recognition for the democratic island. China confirmed
that Taiwan will attend next month's meeting of the World Health
Assembly in Geneva as an observer.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Tanzania huge
blasts rocked an ammunition dump at an army camp in the coastal city of
Dar es Salaam. Several people were feared dead.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In southeastern
Turkey suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed
nine soldiers in a US-made armored personnel carrier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Zimbabwe's teachers
vowed to go on strike when the new school term begins next week after
government reneged on a pledge to increase their salaries.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
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