Riots erupt in Los Angeles
1992 - Rioters ransacked stores and set dozens on fire in race violence that killed more than 58 people, following the acquittal of white policemen who beat a black motorist. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the city of three million people and his police chief said it was “essential to shut down things after sundown”. The curfew had originally been imposed on a 65-square-km stretch of south-central and downtown Los Angeles, where the rioting was centred. More than 250 people were arrested in the rioting, the worst in Los Angeles since the Watts section went up in flames in 1965, leaving 34 dead. The riots have caused at least $100 million (Dh367.8 million) in damages to insured commercial buildings.
April 29
1848 - Pope Pius IX disassociates himself from the Italian national movement.
1862 - New Orleans falls to Union forces during the US Civil War.
1913 - Gideon Sundback of New Jersey patents the zipper.
1918 - Germany’s main offensive on Western Front in World War I ends.
1931 - US President Herbert Hoover receives the King of Siam.
1975 - US task force evacuates foreigners and Vietnamese from Saigon by helicopter.
1980 - Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense in Hollywood, dies at the age of 80.
1985 - Israeli troops pull out of the last major Lebanese city of Tyre.
1990 - Wrecking cranes tear down the section of the Berlin Wall surrounding the Brandenburg Gate.
1991 - A severe cyclone strikes Bangladesh, killing more than 125,000 people.
1992 - Lithuania becomes the first former Soviet republic to join the International Monetary Fund.
1994 - South Africa’s first democratic elections end.
2000 - New premises of Ajman Chamber of Commerce and Industry is inaugurated.
2001 - Godolphin’s finest horse, Dubai Millennium, dies as a result of equine grass sickness.
2004 - General Motors closes down its Oldsmobile division after 107 years of production.
2007 - Abu Dhabi launches Desert Islands, a Dh11.5 billion eco-tourism project.
2011 - Prince William marries his girlfriend Catherine Middleton in Westminster Abbey.
2015 - British actor Bob Hoskins dies of pneumonia at the age of 71.
2016 - South Africa court rules President Jacob Zuma should face almost 800 graft charges.
