April 29

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Lead Story
World War II monument opens in Washington, D.C., 2004
American Revolution
Nathanael Greene takes command of Long Island, 1776
Automotive
The end of the road for Oldsmobile, 2004
Civil War
Union captures New Orleans, 1862
Cold War
American statesmen deny Lattimore's influence, 1950
Crime
Rodney King trial verdict announced, 1992
Disaster
Cyclone kills 135,000 in Bangladesh, 1991
General Interest
Joan of Arc relieves Orleans, 1429
First African-American college chartered, 1854
Dachau liberated, 1945
Riots erupt in Los Angeles, 1992
Britain's Prince William weds Kate Middleton, 2011
Hollywood
Daniel Day-Lewis born, 1957
Literary
Henry James' Transatlantic Sketches is published, 1875
Music
Hair premieres on Broadway, 1968
Old West
William Randolph Hearst is born, 1863
Presidential
Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes, 1974
Sports
Roger Clemens strikes out 20 batters in single game, 1986
Vietnam War
U.S.-South Vietnamese forces launch Cambodian "incursion", 1970
New casualty figures released., 1971
Operation Frequent Wind begins, 1975
World War I
British forces surrender at Kut, Mesopotamia, 1916
World War II
Adolf and Eva marry, 1945
International Military Tribunal indicts Hideki, 1946

World War II

Apr 29, 1946:

International Military Tribunal indicts Hideki

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Also on this day in 1946, Tojo Hideki, wartime premier of Japan, is indicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of war crimes. In September 1945, he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself but was saved by an American physician who gave him a transfusion of American blood. He was eventually hanged by the Americans in 1948 after having been found guilty of war crimes.

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This Week in History, Apr 29 - May 5

Apr 29, 1945
Adolf and Eva marry
Apr 29, 1946
International Military Tribunal indicts Hideki
Apr 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
May 01, 1887
Alan G. Cunningham, British liberator of Ethiopia, is born
May 02, 1945
German troops in Italy surrender to the Allies, while Berlin surrenders to Russia's Zhukov.
May 03, 1942
The Battle of the Coral Sea begins
May 04, 1945
As the Nazi threat dies, the Red Army rises
May 05, 1941
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to his capital

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