04-29-2006, 06:38 AM
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April 29th
1770 ~ James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia.
1863 ~ Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher.
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1936 ~ Birthday of Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor.
1945 ~ Start of Operation Manna.
1945 ~ American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1958 ~ The Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, opened in London.
1980 ~ Death of Alfred Hitchcock, director.
1992 ~ Rioting broke out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King.
1997 ~ A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
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