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Historical events & facts — April 29
What happened on April 29?
On April 29, 1945, American troops liberated Dachau concentration camp — the first founded by the Nazis in 1933, which operated for twelve years. They found more than 30,000 prisoners and the corpses of tens of thousands of victims in mass graves and train wagons. The liberation of Dachau was one of the most shocking episodes that confirmed to the world the reality of the Holocaust.
On April 29, 1901, Japanese Emperor Hirohito was born — who would reign as Showa (Enlightened Peace) for 62 years, the longest reign in Japanese history. Under his reign, Japan expanded militarily in Asia, fought in World War II and announced the surrender on August 15, 1945. Hirohito died on January 7, 1989. Controversy over his responsibility for the war remains alive.
On April 29, 1992, a Los Angeles jury acquitted four white police officers accused of beating Black motorist Rodney King, despite the incident having been filmed and broadcast on television. The acquittal triggered the 1992 Los Angeles Riots — the worst in American history: six days of violence with 63 deaths, 12,000 arrested and $1 billion in damage.
Notable birthdays — April 29
Famous people born on April 29
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation. His extravagant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human-interest stories.
Mary Petty
Mary Petty was an illustrator of books and magazines best remembered for a series of covers published by The New Yorker that feature a family she invented and named, "Peabody", along with their household servants.
Jeremy Thorpe
John Jeremy Thorpe was a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Devon from 1959 to 1979 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his former boyfriend, Norman Scott.
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and activist. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound.
Bernie Madoff
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.
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