04-29-2005, 05:28 AM
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Location: Maryland
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April 29th
1770 ~ James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia.
1861 ~ American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates voted not to secede from the Union.
1863 ~ Birthday of William Randolph Hearst, American publisher.
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1936 ~ Birthday of Zubin Mehta, Indian-born American conductor.
1945 ~ The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by troops of the U.S. Seventh Army.
1958 ~ The Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, opened in London to a rapturous reception.
1980 ~ Death of Alfred Hitchcock, director.
1992 ~ Rioting broke out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King.
1997 ~ The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 came into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
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