On This Day — 29 April

2000s

2015

A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.

Baltimore Orioles

2013

A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.

2013 Prague explosion

2013

National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.

National Airlines Flight 102

2011

The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton

2004

The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.

Oldsmobile

1900s

1997

The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.

Chemical Weapons Convention

1992

Riots in Los Angeles begin, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

1992 Los Angeles riots

1991

A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.

1991 Bangladesh cyclone

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1991

The 7.0 Mw  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.

1991 Racha earthquake

1986

A fire at the Central library of the Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.

Los Angeles Public Library

1986

The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.

Aircraft carrier

1986

An assembly of Sikhs, known as a Sarbat Khalsa, officially declare independence for a state of Khalistan.

Sikhs

1985

Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on STS-51-B.

Space Shuttle Challenger

1975

Vietnam 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. This happens after the Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base.

Operation Frequent Wind

1975

Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands.

People's Army of Vietnam

1974

Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

Watergate scandal

1970

Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.

Vietnam War

1967

After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

Muhammad Ali

1953

The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

3D television

1952

Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.

Pan Am Flight 202

1946

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

1945

World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.

World War II

1945

World War II: Allied airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.

Operations Manna, Chowhound, and Faust

1945

World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.

Adolf Hitler

1945

Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

Dachau concentration camp

1916

World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.

World War I

1916

Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.

Easter Rising

1911

Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.

Tsinghua University

1910

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

Parliament of the United Kingdom

1903

A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.

Frank Slide

1800s

1864

Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.

Theta Xi

1862

American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.

American Civil War

1862

American Civil War: The Siege of Corinth begins as Union forces under General Henry Halleck move to engage Confederate forces led by General P. G. T. Beauregard.

Siege of Corinth