April 29 historic events
711 Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1903 A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
1945 The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1946 Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
Tojo was among those convicted and executed for war crimes.
1967 After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1986 A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
“Fahrenheit 451” wasn’t just a book title in that library.
1991 A 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 10 million homeless.
1992 1992 Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, 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.
That week the rioting spread across the country to several other cities, including Atlanta, where there were several episodes.
2002 The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat that it had held for 50 years.
It has since been replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council. This is the body that commissioned the Goldstone report. Among other countries tasked with monitoring human rights across the world are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, China, Russia, Pakistan, Jordan and Cuba.
2004 Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.