April 29th

Kate Middleton marries Prince William in a lavish royal wedding at Westminster Abbey in London.

The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.

The musical 'Rent' opened on Broadway.

Rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Fifty-four people were killed.

Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.

Pitcher Roger Clemens set a major league baseball record by striking out 20 batters in a regular nine-inning game. He repeated his feat in 1996.

Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the 'Yorkshire Ripper,' the killer of 13 women in northern England over five years.

Film director Alfred Hitchcock died at age of 80.

Japan's Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, became the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate it's citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.

The musical Hair goes to Broadway. As a portrait of the 1960s hippie counterculture and sexual revolution, it was highly controversial at the time. Some of the musical's songs became anthems of the peace movement during the Vietnam War.

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler married his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. (The couple killed themselves the next day.).

Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising.

Jazz musician and bandleader Duke Ellington was born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C.

Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.

New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.

Maryland's House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.

Joan of Arc entered the city of Orléans. She would end its months-long siege and would become known as the "Maid of Orléans.".