...for Chris "CerminaraChris" Cerminara, on this birthdayest of birthday
days.
Elsewhere in history:
Apr 29 1901
Train robber and one of the last of the Old West outlaws, Thomas "Black
Jack" Ketchum is unsuccessfully hanged in Clayton, New Mexico. The
executioner's poor choice of rope and Ketchum's recent increase in
weight combine to produce a gruesome decapitation in the gallows.
Apr 29 1945
With Allied forces closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun
in their fortified bunker. They will kill themselves the following day.
Apr 29 1945
The American 7th Army liberates the Dachau death camp outside of Munich.
Apr 29 1981
Marilyn Barnett publicly alleged that she had a lesbian relationship for
seven years with Billie Jean King, one of America's best-known female
athletes and winner of many national and international tennis
championships.
Apr 29 1992
Rioting erupts in Los Angeles after Rodney King's assailants are
acquitted by a jury. The looting and destruction begins in South Central
L.A. and quickly radiates outward. By the time things are under control,
51 are dead and the city has sustained $1.5 billion in property damage.
Civil disorder manages to spread to other North American cities, through
the influence of live TV coverage.
Apr 29 1996
Search and rescue teams begin dragging Maryland's muddy Wicomico River
after former CIA director William Colby is reported missing. They soon
discover his partially-submerged canoe underneath a boat dock, but his
body isn't located until it rises to the surface a week later.
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