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29 April, 2005
Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
29 April, 2004
Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
29 April, 2002
The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
29 April, 1997
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
29 April, 1993
Buckingham Palace will open to the public for the first time in a bid to raise funds to repair Windsor Castle.
29 April, 1992
LA in flames after 'not guilty' verdict: Fierce rioting breaks out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
29 April, 1986
The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, is laid to rest alongside her husband, the abdicated King Edward VIII, at Frogmore in Windsor.
29 April, 1978
The new left-wing rulers of Afghanistan say almost all the leaders of the ousted Daoud regime are dead.
29 April, 1975
The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
29 April, 1974
Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
29 April, 1970
Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
29 April, 1967
After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
29 April, 1951
A Tibetan delegation to the Chinese government was presented with a treaty draft regarding the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
29 April, 1946
Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
29 April, 1945
The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops. Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. World War II: Start of Operation Manna and the German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
29 April, 1916
Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
29 April, 1854
Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician who applied mathematics to the study of optics, electricity, telegraphy, capillarity, elasticity, thermodynamics, potential theory, quantum theory, theory of relativity and cosmology, was born.
29 April, 1770
James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
29 April, 1672
Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
29 April, 1429
Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

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