On This Day for April 29 - British royal wedding, Hirohito is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-29 10:04 Updated: 2020-04-29 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 29

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Hirohito

Prince William and Catherine, duke and duchess of Cambridge

FEATURED EVENT

2011

British royal wedding

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2015: In what was thought to be the lowest-attended baseball game in MLB history, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox, 8–2, in an empty Camden Yards, Baltimore ; the game was closed to fans because of rioting in the city following the death of an African American man who was fatally injured while in police custody. [Test your knowledge of baseball.]

1992: Riots erupted in Los Angeles in response to the verdict of a highly publicized trial of four white Los Angeles police officers who were acquitted of charges related to the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist who had resisted arrest. [Learn about other riots in U.S. history.]

1991: A tropical cyclone struck Bangladesh, killing an estimated 140,000 people and causing 10 million to lose their homes. [ Test your knowledge of natural disasters.]

1954: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, whose television show Seinfeld was a landmark of American pop culture in the late 20th century, was born in Brooklyn, New York. [ Think you know everything about the “show about nothing”? ]

1945: The U.S. Seventh Army liberated tens of thousands of inmates at the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. [Take our quiz about Germany and World War II.]