Today in History - April 29
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1289 Apr 29, Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1429 Apr 29, Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War. Legend has it that King Charles VII of France had a suit of armor made for Joan at a cost of 100 war horses. In 1996 a suit of armor was found and proposed to be Joan’s armor.
(ATC, p.107) (SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10) (AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1522 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V named Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1535 Apr 29, John Houghton, English, was executed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1550 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V gave inquisitors additional authority.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1553 Apr 29, A Flemish woman introduced to England the practice of starching linen.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1584 Apr 29, Melchior Teschner, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1623 Apr 29, 11 Dutch ships departed for the conquest of Peru.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1624 Apr 29, Louis XIII appointed Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1636 Apr 29, Esaias Reusner, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1661 Apr 29, Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1667 Apr 29, John Arbuthnot (d.1735), Scottish mathematician, was born. With Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and Thomas Parnell he founded the Scriblerus Club in 1714, whose purpose was to satirize bad poetry and pedantry. The club was short-lived.
(http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Arbuthnot.html)
(MC, 4/29/02)
1672 Apr 29, King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands. A French army of 100,000 crossed the Rhine and invaded the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Golden Age fell apart when England, France and a pair of German principalities teamed up to attack the Netherlands and seize its colonies.
(HN, 4/29/99)(PC, 1992ed., p.255)(Econ, 4/18/20, p.38)
1676 Apr 29, Michiel A. de Ruyter (69), Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), was killed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1707 Apr 29, English-Scottish parliament accepted Act of Union and formed Great Britain. [see May 1]
(MC, 4/29/02)
1727 Apr 29, Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, choreographer (ballet d'action), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1745 Apr 29, Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1769 Apr 29, The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) was born.
(CFA, '96, p.44)
1771 Apr 29, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (b.1700), Italian architect, died in St. Petersburg. He was born in Paris and spent his entire career in Russia. His work included the Winter Palace (1754-1762) in St. Petersburg, which later became the Hermitage Museum.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bartolomeo_Rastrelli)
1781 Apr 29, French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1783 Apr 29, David Cox (d.1857), English watercolorist, was born. He books included “Treatise on Landscape Painting" (1813).
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.B5)(www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Cox_David/Cox_David.htm)
1793 Apr 29, John Michell (b.1724) English clergyman and natural philosopher, died in Yorkshire. He provided pioneering insights in a wide range of scientific fields, including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. Michell was the first person to propose that black holes existed.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell)
1784 Apr 29, Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna).
(MC, 4/29/02)
1798 Apr 28, Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" was rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1813 Apr 29, Rubber was patented.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1834 Apr 29, Charles Darwin's expedition saw the top of Andes from Patagonia.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1842 Apr 29, Karl Millocker (d.1899), conductor, composer (Beggar Student), was born in Austria.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mill%C3%B6cker)
1852 Apr 29, The first edition of Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was published. Roget (1779-1869) was a London physician of French-Swiss ancestry who began to collect and organize English words to improve his public speaking.
(HN, 4/29/98)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.B1)
1854 Apr 29, Henri Poincare (1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, was born. He investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too complex for mathematics. Rather space is an assumption, and it can be described and controlled only so far as we assume it. In other words there is no such thing as space. Instead, there are as many spaces as there are people... for every person can assume an indefinite number of different spaces.
(V.D.-H.K.p.272)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9)
1855 Apr 29, Anatol K. Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS], was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1856 Apr 29, During the Tule River War Yokut Indians repelled a second attack by the 'Petticoat Rangers,' a band of civilian Indian fighters-some wearing body armor-at Four Creeks, California. The Yokuts lived along the shores of Tulare Lake in the Central Valley, which disappeared by 1900 due to water diversion and farming.
(HN, 4/29/00)(WW, 6/99)
1856 Apr 29, A peace treaty between England and Russia was signed.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1858 Apr 29, Austrian troops invaded Piedmont (Italy).
(HN, 4/29/98)
1859 Apr 29, In the Italian Campaign some 150,000 Piedmontese troops invaded Piedmontese territory as the French army raced to support them and the Austrian army mobilized to oppose them.
(HN, 4/29/00)
1860 Apr 29, Lorado Taft, US sculptor (Black Hawk), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1861 Apr 29, The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1861 Apr 29, In Australia the Burke party shot one of their last 2 camels after it got stuck in mud. Supplies were divided between the 3 men and one camel.
(ON, 12/01, p.4)
1862 Apr 29, Forts Philip and Jackson surrendered to Union forces under Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1862 Apr 29, 100,000 federal troops prepared to march into Corinth, Miss.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1863 Apr 29, William Randolph Hearst (d.1951), American newspaper publisher, was born. He helped launch the Spanish-American War. "Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster." In 1998 Ben Proctor authored “William Randolph Hearst – The Early Years, 1863-1910."
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFEM, 12/12/98, p.8)(AP, 5/1/99)
1868 Apr 29, The US government and the Sioux Indians signed a treaty that ended Red Cloud’s War. The 1868 treaty at Fort Laramie (Wyoming Territory) made the Black Hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
(http://tinyurl.com/me6pfxd)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.37)(AH, 6/03, p.36)
1877 Apr 29, Tad Dorgen, cartoonist and columnist, was born.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1879 Apr 29, Sir Thomas Beecham, founder of London Philharmonic, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1893 Apr 29, Harold C. Urey, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), was born in Indiana.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1883 Apr 29, Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (b.1808), German economist, died. He was responsible for organizing of the world's first credit unions.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hermann_Schulze-Delitzsch)(Econ, 5/24/14, p.79)
1894 Apr 29, The Commonweal of Christ, called Coxey's Army, arrived in Wash, DC, 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey was arrested for trespassing at Capitol.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1895 Apr 29, Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1899 Apr 29, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (d.1974), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington DC.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.32)(AP, 4/29/99)
1901 Apr 29, Hirohito, emperor of Japan (1926-1989), was born.
(HN, 4/29/99)(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, In the 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence won in 2:07.75.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, Anti Semitic riot took place in Budapest.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1907 Apr 29, Fred Zinnemann (d.3/14/97), Hollywood film director, was born in Vienna. His films included “A Hatful of Rain," “The Sundowners," “The Nun’s Story," “From Here to Eternity," “Julia" and “A Man for All Seasons" (1966) with Paul Scofield.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(AP, 4/29/07)
1909 Apr 29, Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch), was born in Ky.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1913 Apr 29, Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patented an all-purpose zipper. The name was coined by B.F. Goodrich, who used it to fasten rubber galoshes. [see Apr 21]
(HN, 4/29/98)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)
1916 Apr 29, The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities. Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin during Easter Uprising.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1916 Apr 29, The British 6th Indian Division under General Townshend surrendered to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut after a siege of 147 days. Around 13,000 Allied soldiers survived to be made prisoners.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kut)
1918 Apr 29, America's WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scored his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall. He eventually racked up 26 victories before the end of the war.
(HN, 4/29/99)
1919 Apr 29, A parcel bomb aimed at US Senator Thomas Hardwick and designed to explode on May day, exploded unsuccessfully. It was one of nearly 30 devices sent by anarchist groups to politicians, judges and businessmen.
(Econ, 11/6/10, p.74)
1922 Apr 29, A 100-mile-long battle raged near Peking, China.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1924 Apr 29, Open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1927 Apr 29, Construction of the Spirit of St Louis was completed. B.F. Mahoney was the ‘mystery man’ behind the Ryan Aeronautical Company that built Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Engineer Donald Hall designed the $10,580 plane to carry 400 gallons of fuel.
(HN, 4/29/98)(ON, 2/08, p.1)
1927 Apr 29, With concern that Mississippi flood waters could overflow the city of New Orleans the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana, was dynamited downstream of the city, with the intention of increasing the speed of the river as it passed New Orleans and hence reducing the height of the anticipated flood wave.
(www.rms.com/publications/1927_MississippiFlood.pdf)
1930 Apr 29, The film “All Quiet on the Western Front," based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel “Im Western Nichts Neues," premiered.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1930 Apr 29, Telephone connection England-Australia went into service.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1933 Apr 29, Constantine Cavafy (b.1863), Greek poet, died in Alexandria, Egypt. The 1996 Greek film "Cavafy" was a profile of the Greek homosexual poet, and a winner of Greece’s National Film Award for best feature of the year. Cavafy spent 30 years working as a clerk in the Ministry of Irrigation. In 2006 “The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy," translated by Aliki Barstone, was published.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.E4)(SSFC, 6/24/01, DB p.64)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kafavis.htm)
1935 Apr 29, It was reported that live rabbits were being sewn onto dog-track racing machines in the San Francisco Bay Area counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara.
(SSFC, 4/25/10, DB p.54)
1936 Apr 29, Zubin Mehta, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1976), was born in Bombay, India.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1939 Apr 29, Whitestone Bridge, connecting Bronx and Queens, opened.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Norwegian King Haakon and government fled to England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1942 Apr 29, Japanese troops marched into Lashio and cut off the Burma Road.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premiered in London.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Internationally prominent theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer was arrested by Nazis.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Karl Adrian Wohlfart (68), composer, died.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, American soldiers liberated 31,601 in the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun (b.1912) and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler and Braun committed suicide the next day. In 2011 Heike B. Gortemaker authored “Eva Braun: Life With Hitler."
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)(SSFC, 10/30/11, p.F5)
1945 Apr 29, The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies. In 1956 Norman Kogan, historian at the Univ of Connecticut, wrote "Italy and the Allies."
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFC, 9/21/99, p.E4)(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, Japanese army evacuated Rangoon.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1946 Apr 29, The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened in Tokyo for Japanese War Crimes. 28 former leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death. Allies indicted Hideki Tojo, former premier and war minister of Japan, with 55 counts of war crimes. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East meted out justice to Japanese war criminals at locations throughout Asia.
(https://tinyurl.com/4x7sfpd2)(AP, 11/12/97)(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A15)(AP, 4/29/07)
1947 Apr 29, Irving Fisher (b.1867), American economist, died. His Fisher hypothesis is the proposition that the real interest rate is independent of monetary measures, especially the nominal interest rate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher)
1951 Apr 29, Ludwig Wittgenstein (b.1889), Austrian-born philosopher, died in Cambridge, England. His “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicos" (1921) purported to address all of philosophy’s major problems. His posthumous work was edited by Elizabeth Uncombed (d.2001), and included his "Philosophical Investigations" (1953).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein)(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C4)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.W10)
1954 Apr 29, India’s Jawaharla Nehru and China’s Zhou Enlai signed the “Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence." In India this became known as the as the as the Panchsheel Treaty. It entered into force on June 3.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Principles_of_Peaceful_Coexistence)(Econ, 7/31/04, p.36)
1957 Apr 29, The 1st military nuclear power plant was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot), was born in England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1959 Apr 29, Premier Castro denied any Cuban role, direct or indirect, in a Panamanian invasion.
(DBD, p.824)
1961 Apr 29, ABC's "Wide World of Sports made its debut.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.38)(MC, 4/29/02)
1961 Apr 29, The diesel-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. In 1976 the ship was drydocked in Bremerton, Wa., for a year-long overhaul.
(AP, 8/5/05)(www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/history/history.html)
1962 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1965 Apr 29, Seattle experienced an earthquake. 7 people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5 million.
(http://neic.usgs.gov)
1965 Apr 29, Australian government announced it would send troops to Vietnam.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1968 Apr 29, The counterculture musical "Hair" opened on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway.
(AP, 4/29/08)
1968 Apr 29, Dr. Ralph Abernathy led The Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C., less than a month after the assassination of King. It concluded on June 23. The campaign was for reforms in welfare, employment and housing policies. Abernathy was the successor to Rev. Martin Luther King as head of the Southern Christian Leadership conference.
(HNQ, 1/19/99)
1970 Apr 29, Andre Agassi, tennis star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born in Las Vegas, Nev.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi)
1970 Apr 29, Uma Thurman, actress, was born in Boston, Mass. Her films included “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988) and “Pulp Fiction" (1994).
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000235/)
1970 Apr 29, In Australia a large wooden log was placed on the winding track in front of a royal train carrying Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip to the town of Orange. The train did not derail as it was traveling too slowly. The incident was only revealed in 2009 by a retired detective.
(AFP, 1/28/09)
1970 Apr 29, 50,000 US and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia [see Apr 30].
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)(www.democraticcentral.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1972)
1971 Apr 29, Bill Graham announced the close of the Fillmore in SF and the Fillmore East in NYC along with his retirement from concert promotion. He was angered by his perceived greed of rock bands and the anger and distrust of his audience. He soon relented and put on shows with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, the Who and the Grateful Dead. The final concert at Fillmore East took place on June 27.
(SFC,12/13/97, p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_East)
1974 Apr 29, President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1975 Apr 29, US forces pulled out of Vietnam. The US embassy was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon. Just hours after the last American was lifted out by helicopter from the roof of the embassy, James Reston of the NY Times issued an apologia for the press. NVA shelled Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon, killing two US Marines at the compound gate. The last C-130A Hercules at Tan Son Nhut Air Base carried 452 people to Thailand. South Vietnamese civilians looted the air base. President Ford ordered Operation Frequent Wind, the helicopter evacuation of 7000 Americans and South Vietnamese from Saigon. At Tan Son Nhut, frantic civilians begin swarming the helicopters. The evacuation then shifted to the walled-in American embassy, secured by US Marines in full combat gear. Thousands of civilians attempted to get into the compound. Three US aircraft carriers stood by off the coast to handle incoming Americans and South Vietnamese refugees. Many South Vietnamese pilots also landed on the carriers, flying American-made helicopters which were then pushed overboard to make room for more arrivals.
(http://tinyurl.com/gmqh5)(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)(http://tinyurl.com/qerc2wt)
1975 Apr 29, The last four Americans killed in action in Vietnam included two Marines: Lance Corporal Darwin Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Corporal Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts, by rocket and artillery bombardment following an air raid on Tan Son Nhut. Two Marine helicopter pilots died when their chopper crashed into the sea near an aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea of El Paso, Texas.
(www.dixiedavis.com/michaelshea.htm)
1977 Apr 29, Donald Evans (b.1945), American artist, died in a fire in the Netherlands. His work included the creation of postage stamp series for imaginary countries.
(WSJ, 2/5/03, p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Evans_(artist))
1979 Apr 29, Democracy was restored in Ecuador. Jaime Roldos Aguilera was elected as president in a 2nd round of voting. He was killed in plane crash in 1981.
(AP, 4/21/05)(Econ, 10/14/06, p.39)(www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/ecu79pres.html)
1980 Apr 29, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (b.1899), British director (Psycho, Birds), died in Los Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)
1981 Apr 29, Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe (b.1946) admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year period. He was convicted on May 22 and sentenced to serve a minimum of 30 years.
(AP, 4/29/00)(AP, 1/13/04)
1981 Apr 29, In Sydney, Australia, 16 patients died in a nursing home fire in suburban Sylvania Heights.
(AP, 11/19/11)(http://tinyurl.com/6sq3xp8)
1982 Apr 29, The Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The aim of International Dance Day is to celebrate dance as an art form and to bring people together in peace and friendship through the shared language of dance. The date was chosen in commemoration of the death of the greatly influential dancer, choreographer and innovator Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810).
(http://www.pch.gc.ca/arts/dance/danse_e.htm)
1982 Apr 29, Alfredo Magana was elected president of El Salvador.
(www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/ced-timeline-1982.html)
1983 Apr 29, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1986 Apr 29, Some 350,000 books were damaged by fire and water in the LA Central Library.
(http://tinyurl.com/y3ssgk)
1986 Apr 29, Raul Prebisch (b.1901), Argentine policy maker and economic diplomat, died in Santiago, Chile. In 2009 Edgar J. Dosman authored “The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch."
(Econ, 3/7/09, p.90)(http://tinyurl.com/cgd359)
1986 Apr 29, Seamus McElwaine (25), Irish IRA-terrorist, was killed by undercover members of the British Army in County Fermanagh.
(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1986.html)
1988 Apr 29, Molloko, the 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity, was born in the San Diego Zoo.
(www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:6703253)
1988 Apr 29, McDonald's announced it would open its first restaurants in Moscow.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1988 Apr 29, James McCracken (61), US tenor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCracken)
1988 Apr 29, In Pakistan Pres. Zia-ul Haq dismissed the government Mohammed Khan Junejo on charges of incompetence.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A9)
1989 Apr 29, In a sign that student demonstrators in Beijing had gained influence, China's government conducted informal talks with leaders of the democracy protests, and then televised the discussions.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1990 Apr 29, The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a mission which included deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1991 Apr 29, US troops continued airlifting Iraqi refugees from a camp in southern Iraq to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1991 Apr 29, George Sperti (91), inventor of Preparation H, died.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-so.htm)
1991 Apr 29-1991 Apr 31, A cyclone in Bangladesh killed an estimated 131,000 people. 9 million were left homeless. Thousands of survivors died from hunger and water borne disease.
(http://tinyurl.com/duk2u)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1991 Apr 29, More than 100 people were killed and some 100,000 were left homeless when a strong earthquake struck Soviet Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1992 Apr 29, "Falsettos" opened at John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4686)
1992 Apr 29, Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, N.J., home by Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security official, and Seale's wife, Irene, and held for ransom; Reso died in captivity. Arthur Seale is serving a 95-year prison term, while his wife is serving a 20-year sentence.
(AP, 4/29/02)
1992 Apr 29, Deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. White truck driver Reginald Denny was beaten by a mob in south Central LA angered by the acquittal of 4 police officers caught on video tape in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. Three days of violence ensued with 55 people killed, 2,300 injured and an estimated $1 billion [$717 million] in property damages. Rioters tore through the city following the not guilty verdicts on state charges for Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Stacey C. Koon and officer Laurence M. Powell for beating Rodney King. 1093 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Of these, 764 retail stores were owned by Koreans. The US Congress later authorized $1 billion to revitalize south central Los Angeles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A4)(SFC, 1/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.CA1)(AP, 4/29/98)(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A3)
1993 Apr 29, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announced that, for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1994 Apr 29, Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1994 Apr 29, A ferry boat capsized near Mombasa, Kenya, and 272 people were killed.
(http://65.18.147.106/archive/102002/msg00163.html)
1994 Apr 29, Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the terror of ethnic massacres in Rwanda were pouring into Tanzania.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1995 Apr 29, 10 days after the blast, rescue workers in Oklahoma City continued the grim task of searching for bodies and pulling debris from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people died.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1996 Apr 29, "Rent" opened at Nederlander Theater in NYC.
(www.broadway.com/_grp/groups_show.aspx?SI=1257)
1996 Apr 29, Opening ceremonies were held for The Stratosphere Tower of Robert Stupak in Las Vegas. The structure rises 1,149 feet. The last 149 feet consist of a needle perched atop a swollen bulb.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-3)
1997 Apr 29, The Global Anti-Golf Movement, GAG’M, proclaimed a World No-Golf Day.
(Hem., 1/97, p.47)
1997 Apr 29, Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1997 Apr 29, Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, It was reported that a monster fountain of antimatter was discovered erupting from the core of the Milky Way. Observations from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory launched by NASA in 1991 made the observations since last November.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A5)
1997 Apr 29, Newspaper columnist Mike Royko died in Chicago at age 64.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, In Brazil a court injunction stopped the privatization of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the huge state-owned mining company. Some 1,000 demonstrators protested the attempted privatization in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.A11)
1997 Apr 29, In China at Rongjiawan in Hunan province a train crash killed at least 67 and injured 260 people.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 29, The French oil company Total signed a $2 billion contract to explore for gas in Iran despite warnings from the Clinton administration.
(SFC, 9/30/97, p.A14)
1997 Apr 29, In Indonesia police broke up a demonstration and 5 activists were given 7-13 year prison terms on charges of subversion.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A10)
1997 Apr 29, The UN ban on chemical weapons went into effect. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was formed this year to enforce the Chemical Weapons convention.
(http://tinyurl.com/owskts7)(AP, 4/29/98)
1998 Apr 29, The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1998 Apr 29, The US and European powers decided to impose new sanctions and agreed to freeze the assets of Yugoslavia. A ban on investments would follow in 10 days if security police was not withdrawn from Kosova.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court called for ending judicial delays of execution in a 5-4 vote. This reversed the US Court of Appeals Aug, 1997, reprieve for Thomas Thompson, accused of the 1981 murder of Ginger Fleischli in California and reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 29, In England it was reported that Nicholas van Hoogstraten was building the largest and most expensive house of the century in Sussex, named Hamilton Place at a cost of $50 million. The palace was to include a gallery for his French furniture and a mausoleum for his future.
(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1998 Apr 29, British writer Douglas Adams, author of the 1979 classic “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," began marketing his CD-ROM game “Starship Titanic."
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E1)
1998 April 29, Israel formally opened the celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding. According to the Gregorian calendar, the anniversary fell on May 14th.
(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
1998 Apr 29, In the Philippines Imelda Marco withdrew from the presidential race.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1999 Apr 29, Rev. Jesse Jackson and a delegation of religious leaders arrived in Belgrade to talk with Pres. Milosevic concerning the release of 3 captured Americans.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, The US decided to sell an early-warning radar system to Taiwan.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D4)
1999 Apr 29, US planes bombed sites in the no-fly zone of northern Iraq after being attacked by missiles and anti-aircraft fire. Iraq said 20 civilians were injured in Mosul and 4 in separate attacks in the south.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D8)
1999 Apr 29, NATO jets struck Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade and the federal interior ministry. A telecommunications tower was hit and knocked Serbian TV off the air.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Bulgaria an errant NATO HARM missile hit a home in Gorna Banya on the outskirts of Sofia. There were no casualties.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13,D2)
1999 Apr 29, China announced that 1.6 million people would be allowed to move to Hong Kong over the next 10-13 years.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D7)
1999 Apr 29, In Colombia a 2,500 member group of the Embera-Katio Indians called for a safe haven in Europe due to the civil war in their homeland.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.B1)
1999 Apr 29, In India Jessica Lall, a young New Delhi bartender, was shot and killed by Manu Sharma (24), after she refused him a drink at closing time. On Feb 21, 2006, Sharma the son of a powerful and wealthy politician with interests in sugar mills, and 8 friends were acquitted. Protesters took to the streets, holding candlelight vigils and waving signs calling for justice; officials from the president to the capital's police chief called for a review of the investigation. Courts convicted Sharma in 2006 and sentenced him to life in prison. In 2011 the Hindi film “No One Killed Jessica" was based on this story.
(AP, 3/10/06)(Econ, 1/15/11, p.96)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lall)
1999 Apr 29, In Macedonia another 6,500 refugees arrived. 3 refugees were killed by a mine as they attempted to cross the border northwest of Blace.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, In Japan Honda announced that its last EV Plus electric car was built in March.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin approved a plan for upgrading thousands of short-range or tactical nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D5)
1999 Apr 29, Yugoslavia filed World Court cases against 10 countries, including the United States, claiming their bombing campaign breached international law.
(AP, 4/29/00)
2000 Apr 29, Lennox Lewis knocked out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, In Washington DC some 1000 gay and lesbian couples proclaimed their love at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the events leading to the 4th annual Millennium March the next day.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A13)
2000 Apr 29, In Chechnya Alman Mesiyev, the mayor of Khattuni, was shot at close range by rebels for cooperating with Russian troops.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 29, In Malaysia a court upheld the 1999 corruption conviction against former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 29, In Pakistan it was reported that the worst drought in 100 years ravaged southern Sindh and Baluchistan provinces. Up to 500 people were dead from diseases related to the drought.
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A14)
2000 Apr 29, In the Philippines fighting on Basilan Island left 4 soldiers dead and 27 wounded. On Sulu Island kidnappers made a written demands that included the return of barter trade to the southern Philippines, a ban on large fishing boats to protect local fishermen, and full implementation of a 1976 agreement that called for a 13-province Muslim autonomous region.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.C14)
2000 Apr 29, In Vietnam Pham Van Dong, former revolutionary and prime minister, died at age 94.
(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A24)
2001 Apr 29, Nasa scientists reported that they had contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched in 1972, after 8 months of no communication.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 29, The International Monetary Fund endorsed a program to establish better procedures to prevent a repeat of the 1997-98 Asian currency crisis that plunged two-fifths of the world into recession.
(AP, 4/29/02)
2001 Apr 29, China offered to allow US officials to inspect the US Navy spy plane on Hainan Island.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, Sri Lanka appealed for peace talks following bloody battles and retreats in the north.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, In Uganda Pres. Museveni withdrew from a peace pact in anger over a UN report on plundering.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, A year after the loss of a seat it had held for over 50 years, the United States won election to the UN Human Rights Commission.
(WSJ, 4/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
2002 Apr 29, US forces in Afghanistan engaged al Qaeda fighters near the Pakistan border and killed 4.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, The 1st 20 of some 2000 US soldiers landed in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, Two suits were filed against Cardinal Roger Mahoney of LA for violation of racketeering laws by protecting priests who molested children.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, Britain decided to treat al Qaeda and Taliban fighters as prisoners of war and turn them over to the interim Afghan government.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2002 Apr 29, Israeli forces went into Hebron and at least 9 people were killed and dozens arrested. It was a retaliation for the Apr 27 attack.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, In Liberia Pres. Taylor suspended all political activity. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, leader of the opposition Unity Party, returned to Liberia to gear up for elections.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, In Madagascar the High Court ruled that opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana received over 51% of the vote in December and that Pres. Ratsiraka won close to 36%. Ratsiraka said he would not abide by the vote.
(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, Turkey officially agreed to take command of the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2003 Apr 29, Pres. Bush embraced a plan for a $15 billion AIDS initiative that included money for groups that promote birth control and abortion.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A3)
2003 Apr 29, The US said it would withdraw all combat forces from Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A14)
2003 Apr 29, The governor of Virginia signed a tough anti-spam law that called for prison and asset seizures.
(WSJ, 4/30/03, A1)
2003 Apr 29, Tyco Corp. reported some $1.2 billion in fresh accounting problems on top of some $265-325 million reported in March. [See Sep 29]
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R9)
2003 Apr 29, The World Health Organization ended its warning that travelers avoid Toronto, Canada.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, China reported 9 more deaths and more than 200 new cases, most of them in the capital Beijing.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, In Colombia the high court has stripped President Alvaro Uribe of the emergency powers he assumed last year to battle leftist rebels.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, Croatian wartime army chief Janko Bobetko (84), hailed at home as a hero of Croatia's 1991 struggle for independence but charged with war crimes by a UN court, died.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, The leaders of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, all critics of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, agreed to beef up their military cooperation in an effort to make Europe's defense less reliant on the US.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Indian troops raided a base of suspected Islamic militants in Kashmir, sparking a firefight that lasted more than five hours and resulted in 17 deaths.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Pakistani police arrested six men linked to al-Qaeda, including a Yemeni man, Tawfiq Attash Khallad (Waleed bin Attash), wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole.
(AP, 4/30/03)(WSJ, 5/1/03, A1)(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, The Palestinian parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister, clearing the final obstacle to the launch of a U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, A Palestinian suicide bombing killed 3 Israelis in a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, Asif Hanif (21), grew up in Britain. A 2nd bomber escaped.
(AP, 4/30/03)(SFC, 5/2/03, p.A8)
2003 Apr 29, Qataris voted on their first permanent constitution.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2004 Apr 29, The US Sep 11 panel held a joint interview behind closed doors with Pres. Bush and VP Cheney.
(WSJ, 4/29/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington DC. Official dedication was set for May 29.
(AP, 4/29/04)(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2004 Apr 29, GM ended production of its Oldsmobile line (b.1897), named after Ransom E. Olds. The last Olds Alero rolled of a GM assembly line in Lansing, Mich.
(SFC, 4/28/04, p.C1)
2004 Apr 29, Google unveiled an IPO that could raise as much as $2.7 billion.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Cleanup crews arrived at Suisun Marsh in the SF Bay area to tackle an estimated 60,000 gallon diesel fuel spill from a pipeline operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners of Houston, Texas.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Thousands of Cubans, young and old, played their favorite game into the night to break the world record for most people playing chess simultaneously.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, US Marines announced an agreement to end a bloody, nearly month long siege of Fallujah, saying American forces will pull back and allow an all-Iraqi force commanded by one of Saddam Hussein's generals to take over security. Elsewhere 10 U.S. soldiers were killed, 8 of them from a car bomb south of Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/04)(WSJ, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, In Peru 800 people in a village near Lake Titicaca took five aldermen hostage Thursday after their mayor fled in fear of his life.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, A Russian court acquitted 4 commando officers in the shooting deaths of 6 Chechen civilians, after the officers admitted in court that they mistakenly opened fire on their vehicle and set the car on fire to conceal the incident based on orders from superiors.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2005 Apr 29, NASA again delayed the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster, worrying that ice falling off fuel tank could doom Discovery.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, Apple began selling the Tiger operating system, OS X version 10.4, for the Mac computer.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.C1)
2005 Apr 29, Afghan security forces opened fire during a celebration in a western city, killing a mother and her daughter. In central Afghanistan an airstrike on a suspected insurgent camp killed three civilians and four militants. A bomb tore through a jeep carrying Afghan anti-drug police in eastern Afghanistan, killing 3 officers and injuring two more, in the first deadly attack on the country's new counter-narcotics forces.
(AP, 4/30/05)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, In Colombia government troops consolidated their grip on Tacuejo, a mountain town retaken from leftist rebels, and the town's Indian residents slowly began to return despite fears of more violence.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The German government finally scaled back its 2005 growth forecasts, acknowledging that its earlier prognosis had been too optimistic in face of high oil prices and an unexpected economic contraction at the end of last year.
(AFP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, An audiotape purportedly by America's most-wanted insurgent in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, posted on the Internet and threatened more attacks against U.S. forces and urges followers to be wary of any American attempts at dialogue.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents staged a series of car bombings and other attacks, killing at least 41 people, including three US soldiers, a day after the country's first democratically elected government was approved.
(AP, 4/29/05)(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, India signed a pact with the United Nations to combat HIV infections among military personnel after defense authorities sounded a health alert last week.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The head of India's new task force, fighting to save the nation's dwindling stock of tigers, said the big cats were on the verge of extinction, because of rampant poaching for their body parts.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents set off at least 17 bombs in Iraq, killing at least 50 people, including 5 US soldiers, in a series of attacks aimed at shaking Iraq's newly formed government.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.A1)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy and the United States said they had failed to agree on whether U.S. soldiers were at fault in the death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
(AP, 4/30/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy slashed its 2005 growth forecast by almost half to 1.2 percent and warned its budget deficit could hit 4 percent of gross domestic product.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi wooed India, aiming to build a partnership with New Delhi to cope with the growing clout of China in a changing continent.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Heavy rains in western Romania have flooded hundreds of villages, forcing 3,700 people to abandon their homes and disrupting rail and road traffic.
(Reuters, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath on the late-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tomb and held talks with Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinians held out little hope for concrete results.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Sri Lanka's government ordered a "full-scale investigation" into the slaying of a senior Tamil journalist who was abducted overnight as he left a restaurant.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The UN health agency reported 18 new cases of polio in Yemen and said more people are believed infected, sparking fears of an epidemic in the Middle Eastern country with a low immunization rate among children.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Vietnam marked the 30th anniversary of war's end.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Thousands of US anti-war demonstrators converged on lower Manhattan to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A rock slide at Ferguson Ridge, 8 miles west of El Portal, Ca., shut down the Highway 140 connection to Yosemite National Park.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 29, John Kenneth Galbraith (97), an influential liberal Canadian-born economist and author, died in Massachusetts. His more than 40 works included “American Capitalism" (1952), "The Affluent Society" (1958), in which he argued that the US had become rich in consumer goods but poor in social services and “The New Industrial State" (1967).
(Reuters, 4/30/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.86)
2006 Apr 29, Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants hiding in a cave complex in the southern Helmand province, killing 11 insurgents after militants killed three policemen and wounded another in an ambush. An Afghan cell phone company confirmed that an Indian contractor was being held hostage by the Taliban. Afghan soldiers and police attacked a Taliban camp co miles north of Lashkar Gah and killed at least 2 militants.
(AP, 4/30/06)(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, Bolivia's new left-leaning president, Evo Morales, signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on rejecting US-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation. Bolivia became the 3rd member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
(AP, 4/29/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.38)
2006 Apr 29, A cyclone hit Burma with 150 mph winds. Scattered deaths and injuries were reported.
(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, A coalition of Chinese Web activists launched a petition decrying censorship of the Internet and challenging the legality of government information controls on China's more than 100 million net users.
(Reuters, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, In northwestern China a gas explosion at a coal mine killed at least 30 miners and left eight missing at the Wayaobao Coal Mine in Shaanxi province.
(AP, 4/30/06)(AP, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, It was reported that just over 8% of workers in France belonged to a trade union compared with 12% in America and nearly 30% in Britain.
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.54)
2006 Apr 29, In Hong Kong while riding a bus Elvis Ho asked Roger Chan to lower his voice while talking on his cellphone. Chan proceeded to berate Ho for nearly 6 minutes and the encounter was captured on video camera by another passenger, Jon Fong. The video became famous as “Bus Uncle." Some phrases in the video, such as “I’ve got pressure" and “It’s not over," quickly became part of Hong Kong’s lexicon.
(WSJ, 6/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 29, In central India 13 people abducted by insurgents were found dead but 37 others were freed. 2 people were found dead a day earlier. Rebels had abducted 52 people from a single village in the district of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh state on April 25.
(AFP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Iraq 6 people were killed in scattered violence. A top Iraqi official said sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes. A US Army soldier died when a roadside bomb hit his convoy near Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Kyrgyzstan thousands of protesters demanding reform gathered in the main square in Bishkek but dispersed peacefully after President Bakiyev and PM Felix Kulov addressed the crowd.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Newly returned Nepalese legislators demanded that King Gyanendra be stripped of control over the 90,000-strong army, fearing he could use it to regain power after his recent concession to weeks of pro-democracy protests.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A car bombing in the Nigerian oil city of Warri destroyed at least five tanker trucks. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which demands more local control over the southern delta's oil wealth, said it had used a mobile phone to detonate 30 kg (66 lb) of dynamite in the bombing.
(Reuters, 4/30/06)
2006 Apr 29, North Korea claimed that the US conducted about 160 spy flights against the communist state this month.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Peru recalled its ambassador from Venezuela over what it called President Hugo Chavez's "persistent and flagrant interference" in its upcoming presidential elections.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In the Philippines military intelligence agents captured Abdasil Malangka Dima, an alleged member of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, in Isabela, the capital of the southern island province of Basilan. He was allegedly involved in the abduction of three Americans, including a missionary couple, from a resort five years ago.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A Qatar newspaper reported that Qatar has frozen bilateral free trade talks with the US, saying Washington was imposing preconditions that were not in Doha's interest.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki to suspend enriching uranium and ensure full-scale cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, The UN said reports of a Ugandan army incursion into Congo were "credible" after peacekeepers conducted a verification mission in the remote northeastern border region.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Scientists tried to discover why some 400 dolphins washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.
(AP, 4/29/06)(WSJ, 4/29/06, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames, leaving one of the nation's busiest spans in a state of near paralysis. Officials said traffic could be disrupted for months. Driver James Mosqueda (51) managed to away with 2nd degree burns.
(AP, 4/29/07)(SFC, 5/1/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, In Kansas City, Mo., David W. Logsdon, driving a dead woman’s car, was shot and killed by police after he killed 2 people in the parking lot of a mall.
(SFC, 4/30/07, p.A3)(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock, 29, was killed in the crash of his sport utility vehicle.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, Hundreds of angry protesters chanting "Death to Bush" demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan after six people, including a woman and a teenage girl, were reportedly killed when US-led coalition and Afghan forces raided a suspected car bomb cell. Afghanistan's education minister said at least 85 students and teachers were killed last year in attacks blamed on insurgents who oppose education for girls and teaching boys anything other than religion. In western Afghanistan coalition and Afghan forces attacked the insurgents and called in an airstrike, destroying seven Taliban positions and killing 87 fighters during a 14-hour engagement in Herat province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Octavio Frias de Oliveira (94), who published Brazil's biggest newspaper and Web site and helped modernize the country's media, died of kidney failure.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In China 7 suspects went on trial in the beating death of a reporter at an illegal coal mine in northern Shanxi province. Lan Chengzhang was attacked along with a colleague when they went to interview Hou Zhenrun, the owner of the small unlicensed coal mine outside the northern city of Datong on Jan 10. He died the next day from head injuries.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Colombia's navy made the largest drug seizure in the nation's history as it uncovered up to 27 tons of cocaine buried along the Pacific coast.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Ethiopia 7 Chinese oil workers and two Africans kidnapped during a rebel attack on a Chinese oil field near the Somali border were released.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Egypt police arrested two lawmakers and at least 10 other members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group as part of an ongoing campaign against the country's strongest opposition group.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, American troops also detained 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other bomb-making materials during raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in Anbar province. Britain said one of its soldiers was shot to death while on patrol in southern Iraq. In Basra 5 people were reported killed by an explosion. Iraqi police initially said it was a car bomb, but the British military said it appeared the blast accidentally occurred while explosives and weapons were being moved. A roadside bomb killed 3 American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter on a combat patrol in eastern Baghdad. A Marine was killed during combat operations in Anbar province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Japan and the resources-rich United Arab Emirates agreed to launch a high-level dialogue aimed at boosting economic ties and to speed up talks on a free trade pact. Officials of the governmental Japan Bank for International Cooperation decided to extend massive loans to Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. in exchange for securing a stable oil supply for Japan.
(AP, 4/29/07)(http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070430a2.html)
2007 Apr 29, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah held an unannounced meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the recent escalation in Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Saudi Arabia banned the sale of concentrated fertilizer, a favorite component of homemade terrorist bombs.
(AP, 4/30/07)(Econ, 5/5/07, p.60)
2007 Apr 29, Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a fuel refinery and gasoline storage facility near the Sri Lankan capital, and authorities cut power to the city. Hours later, the military pounded rebel positions in the north.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Protests took place around the world to demand that world leaders act to prevent further bloodshed in Darfur on the fourth anniversary of the conflict's start.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand killed two Buddhist villagers, beheading one of them, and left a note saying the attack was revenge for a deadly weekend bombing at a mosque.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Some 700,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America, part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil supply.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2008 Apr 29, Sen. Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, angrily repudiated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, for his recent remarks on race and US foreign policy.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, California’s Gov. Gov. Schwarzenegger said the state deficit could grow to as much as $20 billion.
(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, James Woodward (55) walked out of a Dallas court after DNA testing overturned his conviction over 27 years ago for the murder and rape of his girlfriend.
(Reuters, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, The videogame “Grand Theft Auto IV," produced by Take-Two Interactive Software, hit the stores with expectations of record sales. First week sales topped $50 million.
(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.B7)(WSJ, 5/8/08, p.B8)
2008 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a suicide bomb tore through a team preparing to eradicate opium poppy fields, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 40 others in eastern Nangarhar province. 12 police officers were among the dead.
(AFP, 4/29/08)(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Australia's government promised to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A Chinese court jailed 30 people for terms ranging from three years to life for their roles in Tibet's deadly riots, which triggered anti-China protests across the globe ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, In China a newspaper reported that thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages," to work as laborers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Colombia police killed Victor Manuel Mejia in a raid at his ranch hideout. The government initially said it was his brother Miguel Angel. Both were wanted for extradition to the United States, with US$5 million rewards for their capture. In 2009 Miguel Angel Mejia was extradited to the US on drug trafficking charges.
(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 3/5/09, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Gastao Salsinha, the leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta, surrendered with 12 of his men, raising hopes that the troubled young nation can find some rare stability.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, European nations failed to convince Lithuania to allow the EU to launch talks on a new partnership pact with Russia.
(AFP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, EU nations signed a premembership trade-and-aid pact with Serbia to help pro-Western parties win elections. The deal would only be implemented if Belgrade fully cooperates with the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A11)
2008 Apr 29, A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong US objections to the project.
(AP, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, In Iraq a roadside bomb hit Dhia Jodi Jaber, director general at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as he left his Baghdad home in his car. Militants killed the nephew of Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, and hanged the body from an electric pole in Baghdad. The attack was in apparent retaliation for the spokesman's role in a government crackdown against Shiite militias. US soldiers killed 28 militants during a four-hour firefight in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City. 2 US were killed soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/08)(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 5/1/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico's Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country. President Felipe Calderon's office declined to say whether he would sign the popular measure into law.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with growing crime.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, The International Criminal Court in The Hague published an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda (35), known as "the Terminator," a Congo militia leader wanted for allegedly using child soldiers.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Russia announced it was beefing up its peacekeeping force in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Workers returned to the Grangemouth refinery in central Scotland after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, An explosion in southwestern Somalia killed four Ethiopian troops and the subsequent gunfire killed two civilians.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Albert Hofmann (102), the father of the mind-altering drug LSD, died in Switzerland. His medical discovery inspired, and arguably corrupted, millions in the 1960s hippie generation. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943. Hofmann used LSD for the last time when he was 97.
(AP, 4/30/08)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.21)
2008 Apr 29, In Taiwan the de facto US envoy assured incoming president Ma Ying-jeou that Washington will continue to back Taiwan militarily while it pushes for peace talks with China.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A power outage left wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity, including much of the capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power lines in the central state of Guarico.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2009 Apr 29, The Obama administration joined a federal judge in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, It was reported that more than 50 million American retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus package enacted in February.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Florida Juwhan Yun, a Korean American who had served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of nerve gas bombs to Iran, was indicted in Miami on charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket technology.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, In New York Teresa Tambunting of Scarsdale was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Prosecutors said she had stolen over $12 million in gold over six years from the Queens jewelry manufacturer where she worked. Police found 450 pounds of gold at her home.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, The WHO raised its alert for swine flu from level 4 to level 5, its 2nd highest alert level. Austria and Germany confirmed cases of swine flu, becoming the third and fourth European countries hit by the disease. US health officials reported that a 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the disease. The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting to consider its pandemic alert level.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A8)
2009 Apr 29, In Afghanistan US-led troops battled militants and announced they killed 42 suspected insurgents. Two attacks on German forces killed one soldier and wounded nine as Germany's foreign minister began a two-day visit to the country.
(AFP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Australia announced it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about 1,550 as part of the US-led surge of international forces to bolster the faltering fight against Taliban insurgents.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Two boats carrying almost 80 people were intercepted off Australia's northern coast as the conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry into refugee policy.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain’s PM Gordon Brown said it will boost its troops in Afghanistan to 9,000 to help the country through upcoming elections, unveiling a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain and Libya ratified a prisoner transfer deal that could potentially allow Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi (57), the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombings, to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the North African country.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, The prime ministers of China and Japan pledged to lay a stronger foundation for cooperation between the historic Asian rivals amid global economic and health crises.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, China Mobile said it would buy 12% of Far EasTone Telecommunications, a big Taiwanese mobile operator.
(Econ, 5/9/09, p.65)
2009 Apr 29, A Boeing 737 on a test flight from Brazzaville crashed southeast of Kinshasa, killing 7 people.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Cuba a statement published in state newspapers said that effective midnight, flights from Cuba to Mexico would be grounded due to swine flu. After that, airlines can fly presumably empty planes to the island and pickup Mexico travels. This amended a blanket 48-hour ban on flights between Mexico and Cuba announced a day earlier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been reported here yet.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, An Iraqi-US patrol was ambushed while distributing grants to Iraqi businesses near the northern city of Kirkuk. Iraqi officials said two civilians were killed when the Americans returned fire, but the US military said those killed were enemy fighters. Five bombs hit various neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing at least 48 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A2)
2009 Apr 29, Youssef Magied al-Molqui, one of the 4 Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985, left prison in Palermo, Sicily, after more than 23 years in jail. Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif, another convicted Achille Lauro hijacker, was released last year.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, Lebanon released four generals held for nearly four years in the 2005 truck-bomb assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri after a UN-backed tribunal in the Netherlands ordered them freed, setting off celebrations with fireworks and dancing.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Mexican police arrested suspected Zeta gang leader Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, one of Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traffickers.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, NATO and Russia resumed formal contacts eight months after they were suspended because of last year's war with Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from the Buner district, within 60 miles (100 kilometers) of Islamabad. Troops faced an estimated 450-500 militants in Buner and forecast that the operation to drive them out would take about a week. Gun attacks in the mega-city of Karachi killed at least 34 people and threatened to ignite ethnic tension. 2 Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) activists were gunned down by unknown shooters, sparking street violence.
(AP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, A South Korean presidential advisory committee announced that South Korea will lift a three-year ban on human stem cell research.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Sri Lanka the visiting French and British foreign ministers urged Sri Lanka to accept a cease-fire in its war with ethnic Tamil rebels, saying it needed to act quickly to save the lives of civilians in the war zone.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Taiwan said it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key UN body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou's campaign to win greater international recognition for the democratic island. China confirmed that Taiwan will attend next month's meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva as an observer.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Tanzania huge blasts rocked an ammunition dump at an army camp in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam. More than a dozen people were killed.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 2/18/11, p.A2)
2009 Apr 29, In southeastern Turkey suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers in a US-made armored personnel carrier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Zimbabwe's teachers vowed to go on strike when the new school term begins next week after government reneged on a pledge to increase their salaries.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2010 Apr 29, The US Navy said the first US women allowed to serve aboard submarines will be reporting for duty by 2012.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Alabama shrimpers filed a class-action lawsuit against oil giant BP Plc and owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, as claims for economic losses anticipated from the disaster began to mount.
(Reuters, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, ChronoZoom was first publicly announced and demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley during the 97th Annual Faculty Research Lecture series. On Apr 12, 2011, Professor Alvarez introduced ChronoZoom, a free interactive zoomable timeline for the history of everything being developed at UC Berkeley. By 2012 there were about 30 people working on the project at Microsoft Research, Moscow State Univ. and the Univ. of Calif.
(http://eps.berkeley.edu/~saekow/chronozoom/introductionvideo/index.html)(Econ, 6/2/12, TQ p.10)
2010 Apr 29, In Oakland, Ca., Parking director Noel Pinto issued a memo curtailing nighttime parking enforcement, effecting as of May 13. The recently begun practice had enraged local residents.
(SFC, 5/11/10, p.C3)
2010 Apr 29, Australia said it will force tobacco companies to strip all logos and color from their packaging, in a move aimed at driving people away from smoking.
(SFC, 4/30/10, p.A2)
2010 Apr 29, A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, NATO troops in Nangarhar province raided the home of a prominent Afghan lawmaker overnight, killing one of her relatives. In Laghman province a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near an Afghan army training facility, killing a soldier.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Belgium's lower house of parliament banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public, but the measure faced a challenge in the Senate which will delay early enactment of the law. There were two abstentions. No one voted against.
(AP, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, The president of the Central African Republic scrapped plans to hold polls May 16 after the elections commission told him it would be unable to organize them in time.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In eastern China a knife-wielding jobless man, Xu Yuyuan (47), attacked a kindergarten class of 4-year-olds, slashing 29 children and 3 teachers in what an expert said was a copycat rampage of two other episodes at Chinese schools in the past month. On May 15 Xu Yuyuan was sentenced to death. He appealed the death sentence, saying the punishment was too severe considering no one was killed.
(AP, 4/29/10)(AP, 5/15/10)
2010 Apr 29, Colombian authorities detained Congressman Luis Carlos Restrepo Orozco on allegations of receiving drug money.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Avigdor Arikha (b.1929), Holocaust surviving artist, died in Paris. He was perhaps the best painter from life in the last decades of the 20th century.
(Econ, 5/15/10, p.94)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Arikha)
2010 Apr 29, The prime ministers of India and Pakistan agreed to resume peace talks between their top diplomats and work toward rebuilding trust shattered by the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militants.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Iraq's election commission said recounting all the ballots from the key Baghdad province will take around 2 to 3 weeks, further delaying the formation of a long awaited new government. 8 people were killed and 20 injured in car bomb outside a Baghdad liquor store. Iraq's banned Baath party, booted out of power in the 2003 US-led invasion, held its first public meeting in the Syrian capital.
(AP, 4/29/10)(AFP, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, Mexican police said that a crowd of villagers in Guerrero state chased down a group of alleged kidnappers, freed their victims and shot 3 men to death. The men had apparently entered the hamlet of La Union, near the coastal resort of Zihuatanejo, and abducted a man and two boys. They allegedly also shot another man to death.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent the dissolution of her party under a controversial new election law.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Thailand's "Red Shirt" protesters called on the European Union to send observers to prevent a crackdown by the army, but the government warned others not to meddle in its internal affairs. Theo-establishment activists demanded military action against anti-government protesters and an end to "anarchy" in the capital.
(AFP, 4/29/10)(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Venezuela Father Esteban Woods (68), an American priest, was slain inside his apartment in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Vietnam a Javan rhino, one of the world's rarest large mammals, was found shot dead with its horn chopped off in a southern national park, a suspected victim of poachers. There were only three to five Javan rhinos believed left in Vietnam. The animal was first caught on camera at the park in 1999.
(AP, 5/10/10)
2011 Apr 29, The US Federal Transit Administration determined that New Jersey must repay the federal government the entire $271 million it spent on early design and engineering work for a New Jersey - New York train tunnel that was scrapped by Gov. Chris Christie.
(SFC, 4/30/11, p.A6)
2011 Apr 29, Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine, was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges. Benjamin was captured by the Mexican military in 2002 in central Mexico.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, The state of Utah filed a lawsuit against the federal government over an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Australia a gunman killed three neighbors then shot a police officer in the face during a shootout and siege in the normally sleepy city of Adelaide.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, Brazil's population climbed to more than 190.7 million people in 2010, according to initial results of the decennial census released by the country's official institute of geography and statistics.
(AFP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In London Kate Middleton married Prince William in a union that promised to revitalize the British monarchy.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Northampton, England, university lecturer Jifeng Ding (46), his wife Helen Chui (47), and their daughters Xing (18) and Alice (12) were stabbed to death. Anxiang Du (53), a former business associate of the family who lived in Coventry, was named as the only suspect in the case shortly after the bodies were discovered. On July 7, 2012, a man believed to be Anxiang Du was arrested in Tangiers.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2011 Apr 29, Cambodian and Thai troops broke a brief cease-fire and clashed for an eighth day, shattering hopes of a quick end to a long-running border conflict that has forced nearly 100,000 villagers to flee. The death toll rose to 16.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, An Egyptian soldier of the border guard unit was killed in an exchange of gunfire with tunnel smugglers near the border with Gaza.
(AFP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Egypt at least 20 people drowned in the Nile while on a trip to visit the grave of a relative. 5 people were also missing after a minibus hired for the traditional graveyard visit slipped from the ferry that carried it across the river in Beni Suef province.
(Reuters, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Germany 3 suspected members of the al-Qaida terror organization were arrested. The suspects had been under surveillance since April 15.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In eastern India villagers protesting a noisy stone crushing plant burned to death its three owners and four employees in Orissa state's remote Bandaguda village.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Iraq attacks around the country killed six people, including the 8-year-old daughter of an imam who preached against violence and three brothers who fought al-Qaida. In southern Iraq an American soldier was killed while conducting military operations.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Japan senior nuclear advisor Toshiso Kosako resigned saying the government was not adequately protecting the public from radiation.
(SSFC, 5/1/11, p.A7)
2011 Apr 29, In Libya Moammar Gadhafi's forces holed up inside the airport in the key western city of Misrata have been shelling a civilian neighborhood around it. Rebels said at least two men died in the morning fighting. NATO warships intercepted several boats laying anti-shipping mines outside the harbor of Misrata. Forces loyal to Gaddafi fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town.
(AP, 4/29/11)(Reuters, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, Mexican federal police discovered a basement arsenal hidden behind the mirrors of a home gym in Ciudad Juarez that included three anti-aircraft guns, dozens of grenades, a grenade launcher, AK-47s and other high-powered weapons.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, Philippines’s Pres. Benigno Aquino forced the resignation of ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, the state’s chief prosecutor of official corruption. She was accused of failing to prosecute cases of alleged corruption within the administration of former president Gloria Arroyo, who had appointed her.
(Econ, 5/7/11, p.46)
2011 Apr 29, Thousands of Syrians called for the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad and pledged support for the city of Deraa where tanks and troops have tried to crush resistance to his authoritarian rule. At least 65 people were killed with 36 of the deaths in the Daraa province, 27 in the central Homs region, one in Latakia and another in the Damascus countryside. Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei (15) disappeared in Daraa. Activists on June 9 released video of his dead body and said he was tortured by security forces.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 4/30/11)(SFC, 6/10/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 29, In Tunisia more than 800 prisoners escaped from prisons in Kasserine and Gafsa after fires were started in cells. Some 11,000 inmates have escaped since Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile in January.
(SFC, 4/30/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 29, Ugandan army troops and police fired live bullets at rioting demonstrators, and at least two people were killed and 120 wounded in the largest anti-government protest in sub-Saharan Africa this year. Demonstrations over the last three weeks left eight people dead and wounded more than 250 others.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 Apr 29, Yemeni activists said police in plainclothes opened fire at protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster in the western port city of Hodeida ahead of mass demonstrations nationwide.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2012 Apr 29, In NYC an out of control SUV flew off an elevated portion of the Bronx River Parkway, falling more than 50 feet before landing in a horrific crash that left seven people dead.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A5)
2012 Apr 29, Thomas Preston (83), Texas gambler also known as Amarillo Slim, died in Amarillo. His 1972 win in the fledgling World Series of Poker in Las Vegas helped make him an ambassador for the game.
(Econ, 5/12/12, p.98)(http://tinyurl.com/8xlfd8l)
2012 Apr 29, In eastern Afghanistan a buried bomb killed two children who triggered the explosive when they were playing outside near their village in Paktika province.
(AFP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, Algerian security forces killed 20 members of an al-Qaida splinter group who were allegedly about to attack two fuel tankers.
(AP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Austria the body of former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem (69), was found floating in the Danube river. Police said he died from drowning.
(AP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Bangladesh 9 small bombs exploded in Dhaka, after an opposition supporter was shot dead the previous evening in clashes ahead of a 4th nationwide strike in eight days.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, British police arrested James Allen (36), of Lothian Road, Middlesbrough, for the deaths of Colin Dunford (81) from Middlesbrough, and Julie Davison (50) from Whitby, North Yorkshire. Their bodies were discovered last week.
(AFP, 5/2/12)
2012 Apr 29, The CongoDRC military launched an offensive against Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by The Hague for alleged war crimes. On May 5 the army announced a five-day cease-fire to give army defectors a chance to return. Defections began early this month, with ex-CNDP members claiming that the government had failed to implement the provisions in the 2009 accord. On May 6 they formed a new group taking the name - March 23 - from the date of the 2009 peace accord signed by rebel groups and the Congolese government.
(AFP, 5/9/12)(AFP, 5/28/12)
2012 Apr 29, Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament decided to suspend sessions for a week in protest at the ruling military refusing to sack the government and name the Muslim Brotherhood's party to head a new one. One person was killed and 119 injured in clashes between Abu Ismail supporters and residents of the Abbassiya neighborhood in Cairo, where the defense ministry is located.
(AFP, 4/29/12)(AFP, 5/2/12)
2012 Apr 29, In India a head-on collision between two buses killed 20 passengers and injured at least 18 others in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Japan a bus carrying dozens of vacationers to Tokyo Disneyland has crashed on a highway, killing 7 passengers.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Kenya one person died and 15 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown at God's House of Miracles International Church in Nairobi during Sunday service. A church elder said his church may have been targeted by neighbors who claim to own the land on which it is built. On May 15 police charged Ibrahim Kibe Kagwa, a Kenyan, with six counts of causing grievous body harm during the grenade attack.
(AP, 4/29/12)(AP, 5/16/12)
2012 Apr 29, Libya's National Transitional Council decided that the interim government should stay in place, notably to ensure the success of June elections for a constituent assembly.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, Malaysian police freed all 471 people arrested a day earlier during a demonstration for free and fair elections, including senior opposition lawmaker Tian Chia.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, Myanmar state media said a series of attacks in the conflict-hit north have left at least four officials dead in Kachin state, in rare acknowledgement of ethnic unrest that has marred the regime's reformist image.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In northern Nigeria gunmen attacked church services on the Bayero University campus in Kano, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed around 20 people. On May 18 police arrested Augustine Effiong (25), aka Abubakar Garba, a Boko Haram Islamist. He confessed to have participated in a series of attacks including the attack and killings in Bayero University Kano (BUK).
(AP, 4/29/12)(AFP, 4/30/12)(AFP, 5/21/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Pakistan the beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside in the southwestern city of Quetta. Khalil Rasjed Dale (60) was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work.
(Reuters, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Pakistan 3 militants were killed and two others wounded in a US drone attack in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. A remote-controlled car bomb in the Khyber tribal region killed two people and wounded five others.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In the Philippines clashes between army troops and communist guerrillas in two provinces left 10 people dead.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A2)
2012 Apr 29, In Spain tens of thousands of people protested against education and health care cuts as the country suffered its 2nd recession in three years.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A2)
2012 Apr 29, In Syria Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, head of the UN observer mission, arrived in Damascus to take charge of an advance team of 16 UN monitors. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government snipers shot dead two people in the Homs neighborhood of Joret al-Shayah. The group also said one civilian was killed and four wounded in random gunfire by security forces in the village of al-Saliha in the central Hama province.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In the northern United Arab Emirates security agents in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah detained Saleh al-Dhufairi, a rights activist, as part of an apparent widening crackdown on perceived opposition figures.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In southern Yemen Al-Qaeda freed 73 soldiers captured in battles on March 4, as three suspected militants were killed in an air strike in the north of the country.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Zimbabwe Benias Gwenhamo Madhakasi, who works as a street vendor in South Africa, was arrested at the Beit Bridge border post on charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the president. He had cartoons on his cell phone that showed a bony-looking Robert Mugabe in the nude. On July 24 a magistrate tossed out the case.
(AFP, 7/25/12)
2013 Apr 29, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation allowing immigrant students to pay at the tuition rate other in-state students pay at state colleges. Colorado became the 14th state to allow such payments.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, NBA beteran basketball player Jason Collins (34) announced that he was gay, smashing through one of the final frontiers in US sports with a frank personal statement and winning warm praise as a groundbreaker.
(Reuters, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A California jury in Santa Ana convicted Catherine Kieu (50) of torture and aggravated mayhem. She was accused of drugging her husband (60) and then severing his penis and tossing it into the garbage disposal. She was jealous of his plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend. On June 28 she was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A4)(SFC, 6/29/13, p.A4)
2013 Apr 29, It was reported that 62 prisoners have died in California from 2006 through 2013 after coming down with a fungal infection called valley fever. The highes rates were reported at Pleasant Valley and Avenal prisons. The federal manager of health care in the state’s prisons ordered officials to transfer 3,300 inmates out of Pleasant Valley and Avenal.
(SFC, 4/29/13, p.C4)(SFC, 4/30/13, p.C1)
2013 Apr 29, SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight. A special jet climbed to 48,000 feet over the Mojave Deset, released the craft and pilots triggered the ship’s rocket engine.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A4)
2013 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, soon after takeoff, killing all seven people aboard.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, The Catholic Church in Brazil said it has excommunicated Father Roberto Francisco Daniel for defending homosexuality, open marriage and other practices counter to Church teaching in online videos.
(Reuters, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, Mohammed Saleem (82), a grandfather, was stabbed to death as he walked home from his mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. On July 22 Pavlo Lapshyn (25), a Ukrainian in the UK on a sponsored work placement scheme, was charged with Saleem’s murder. On Oct 21 Lapshyn pleaded to stabbing Saleem and planting bombs near three British mosques. On Oct 25 Lapshyn was sentenced to 40 years.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)(http://tinyurl.com/llgflpp)(AFP, 10/25/13)
2013 Apr 29, Cameroon’s Supreme Court announced that the party of entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, In the Czech Rep. a powerful explosion badly damaged an office building in the center of Prague, injuring up to 40 people. Authorities believed people may still be buried in the rubble. Police later confirmed that the explosion was caused by a natural gas leak.
(AP, 4/29/13)(AP, 5/9/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Dubai court sentenced three British tourists to four years in prison on drug charges in a case that drew international scrutiny over claims of abuses in custody. Suneet Jeerh, Grant Cameron and Karl Williams, were arrested last July with what police said was the synthetic drug known as Spice.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, France’s Pres. Hollande announced a clutch of pro-business measures, such as cutting the capital gains tax he had raised just six months earlier.
(Econ, 5/4/13, p.67)
2013 Apr 29, France said it will effectively freeze its military spending for the next several years, cutting nearly 10% of defense jobs. A defense review white paper opted to keep air, ground and sea capabilities, while freezing defense budgets over 6 years and cutting 34,000 mioitary posts between 2014 and 2019.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A2)(Econ, 5/4/13, p.55)
2013 Apr 29, German federal prosecutors say they have charged three German-Iranian dual nationals and a German man with breaking export laws for allegedly supplying Iran with parts needed to build a nuclear reactor in violation of the country's trade embargo.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A cargo ship, the Pirireis, sank off southern Greece within minutes of colliding with another freighter in fair weather, leaving two Syrian seamen dead and 8 others missing. 7 sailors were rescued. It was not clear exactly why the Antigua- and Barbuda-flagged Consouth collided with the Cook Islands-flagged Pirireis.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In central and southern Iraq 5 car bombs struck in predominantly Shiite cities and districts, killing 36 people and wounding dozens in the latest wave of violence roiling the country.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, Ireland's Supreme Court ruled that a paralyzed Irish woman, who wants to die, cannot legally commit suicide with her partner's help. Judges said lawmakers could pass such a law to permit Marie Fleming (59) to die at a time of her choosing, but no such statute existed yet.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Kosovo court found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime in a trial against 7 people suspected of running an int’l. organ trafficking ring.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A2)
2013 Apr 29, A Kuwait appeals court said online activist Sager al-Hashash must serve a jail sentence for Twitter posts deemed offensive to the Gulf nation's ruler, but the prison term was reduced from two years to one.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In Mauritania a group calling for the rights of the Haratines was launched. The Haratins are oasis-dwellers in the Sahara, especially in southern Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara, who make up a socially and ethnically distinct group of largely settled, non-nomadic workers, with relatively dark complexions, speaking either Berber or Arabic.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2013 Apr 29, Mexico said all contact for US law enforcement will now go through "a single window," the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy. The new policy was a dramatic shift from the direct sharing of resources and intelligence between US and Mexican law enforcement under former President Felipe Calderon.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Nigerian military official said at least 17 people have been killed in fighting between Islamic extremists and security forces in Bama, Borno state.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, North Korea approved the withdrawal of most of the remaining South Korean personnel at a jointly run industrial park in the North, with a final seven set to stay behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber targeting a police van killed at least 8 people in Peshawar, including the son and nephew of an Afghan official involved in peace negotiations with the Taliban.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, Syria’s PM Wael al-Halqi was unhurt in a bombing near his convoy in Damascus. At least 5 people were reported killed.
(AP, 4/29/13)(AP, 4/30/13)
2014 Apr 29, Washington's deadline for reaching a peace deal between Israel and Palestine expired today with the sides bitterly divided.
(AFP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, The US targeted companies from China and Dubai for allegedly helping Iran evade weapons and oil sanctions, a signal Washington will keep pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, US Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is determined to help Ukraine find and recover billions of dollars of assets it says were stolen by its former president and his aides. Holder spoke at the start of a two-day international meeting in London, jointly organized by Britain and the United States and attended by representatives from 35 countries, which is aimed at helping Ukraine's government recover money from President Viktor Yanukovich.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, A federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s voter ID law declaring that it imposes an unfair burden on poor and minority voters.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, Laws in Chicago and NYC went into effect subjecting electronic cigarettes to the same regulations as tobacco.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Donald Sterling (80), the owner of the LA Clippers, would be banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million for his recent racist comments. Additional punishment included barring Sterling from any NBA games or practices.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A1)
2014 Apr 29, In Georgia a FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest opened fire at a packaging sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, Oklahoma halted a double execution after Clayton Lockett (38) appeared to twitch and gag after being declared unconscious. Vein failure was cited. Locket, convicted of shooting a woman in 1999 and having buried her alive, soon died of a heart attack. The execution of Charles Warner (46) was stayed for 14 days. He had been convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl in 1997.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A9)
2014 Apr 29, US payment-card firm Visa said it would suspend network services to Russian banks SMP and InvestCapitalbank, which were sanctioned a day earlier by the US, in order to comply with US law.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Bahrain female activists Nafisa al-Asfoor and Rayhana al-Musawi were convicted, along with three male accomplices in connection with what authorities say was an attempt to bomb last year's Formula One race. No explosives were detonated at the 2013 race.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, CongoDRC officials said nearly 40,000 Congolese citizens have been deported over the last two weeks from neighboring Republic of Congo because they did not have immigration papers.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, An Egyptian court sentenced 29 people, described as Islamist supporters of ousted Pres. Morsi, to five years imprisonment on charges that included rioting.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, In Egypt Bassem Sabry (31), one of the country’s most respected bloggers who campaigned for civil rights and against repression, died. Security officials said Sabry accidently fell from a balcony under unclear circumstances.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Ethiopian police said they have arrested several people for "serious criminal activities." Rights groups said they were journalists and “Zone 9" bloggers detained in a sweeping crackdown against free speech. On Oct 16, 2015, Four of the bloggers and journalists were acquitted of terrorism after 18 months in jail. Journalist Befekadu Hailu, while being acquitted of terrorism charges, remained in custody on charges of inciting violence. Soleyana Gebremichael, in exile in the US, was acquitted of all charges in absentia.
(AFP, 4/29/14)(AFP, 10/16/15)
2014 Apr 29, The EU released the names of 15 new people it is targeting for sanctions because of their roles in the Ukraine crisis.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, Indian police and paramilitary officers said they have detained more than 600 Kashmiri residents over the last five days in a crackdown on suspected separatists ahead of voting in a general election.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Indonesia Rudi Rubiandin, the former head of energy regulator SKKMigas, was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a major graft scandal that reached the top levels of the oil ministry.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Iraq a pair of back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market in al-Saadiyah, 140km northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 42.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Mexico gunmen in homemade armored vehicles engaged in a day of running gunbattles that left 14 people dead in the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Moldova's PM Iurie Leanca said neighboring Romania will export gas to his country this year, reducing the former Soviet republic's dependence on Russia for gas.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, A Palestinian-built protest boat, Gaza's Ark, which was preparing to run Israel's naval blockade of the territory, was badly damaged in an explosion that organizers blamed on Israel.
(AFP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In the Philippines Muslim militants launched a surprise attack to regain control of a jungle training camp in a southern province. 25 Abu Sayyaf militants were killed and 24 wounded. One Philippine marine had died and 19 were wounded.
(AP, 5/1/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Russia 10 people died after a fire broke out at a military warehouse in the Siberian Baikal region.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Turkey’s PM Tayyip Erdogan said he would ask the United States to extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of plotting to topple him and undermine Turkey with concocted graft accusations and secret wire taps. Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1997.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Syria two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of Damascus killed at least 14. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said it will send a team to Syria to investigate recent allegations about the use of chlorine gas in the war.
(AP, 4/29/14)(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A4)
2014 Apr 29, Thailand's state anti-corruption body indicted 36 senators for alleged misconduct in attempting to amend the constitution to make the Senate fully elected, which a court ruled was unconstitutional last year.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Ukraine demonstrators demanding more power for eastern regions stormed the regional administration building in Luhansk, one of the largest cities in the troubled east.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, The UAE convicted American drummer James Kottak of insulting Islam and being under the influence of alcohol while in transit at Dubai airport and sentenced him to one month in jail.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, Yemeni troops, backed by air force planes, launched a major offensive against al Qaeda strongholds in the south of the country to try to eradicate the Islamist militant group that had killed hundreds since 2011.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2015 Apr 29, US health officials said German measles, aka rubella, is officially gone from North and South America. It has been over five years that the last case originated in the Americas. Vaccines against the disease were first licensed in 1969.
(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A6)
2015 Apr 29, Russell Taylor, executive director of the Jared Foundation, was arrested at his home in Wayne Township, Indiana, after investigators found child pornography. The Jared Foundation to prevent childhood obesity was started in 2004 by Jared Fogle, spokesperson for sandwich chain Subway.
(http://tinyurl.com/pby9uyk)(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A14)
2015 Apr 29, Burundi took the controversial question of President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term bid to the constitutional court but opposition supporters dismissed the move and said demonstrations would go on.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, China's biggest lender by assets, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, said it has signed an infrastructure pact worth $2 billion with the oil-rich west African nation of Equatorial Guinea.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece agreed to step up cooperation on combatting terrorism amid fears that worsening security conditions in neighboring countries such as Libya could threaten the region.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, An Egyptian court jailed 69 Islamists for life for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013, as anger flared over a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A report in the Guardian newspaper said fourteen French soldiers are implicated in a probe into the alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, in what could be a potentially devastating scandal for the army.
(AFP, 4/30/15)(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A2)
2015 Apr 29, An Indonesian firing squad executed 8 drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. Mary Jane Veloso from the Philippines was spared at the last minute as part of a deal between Jakarta and Manila to seek more information and go after drug syndicates operating in the region.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(SSFC, 5/3/15, p.A4)
2015 Apr 29, Iran’s Labor and Social Welfare Minister Ali Rabiei said that 200,000 wealthy Iranians — as well as Iranians living abroad — have been eliminated last week from the list of those getting handouts. Iran began handing out a monthly $15 in cash to all Iranians in 2010 as compensation for cuts in food and energy subsidies.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe sought support for a trans-Pacific trade pact that has divided US lawmakers as he made the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint meeting of Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would encompass 12 countries in Asia and the Americas and apply to 40% of the world’s economy.
(AP, 4/29/15)(Econ, 10/10/15, p.71)
2015 Apr 29, In northern Mali 2 soldiers and a civilian were killed when gunmen attacked the village of Goundam. In central Mali 10 militants and nine soldiers died in clashes between the army and the main Tuareg rebel alliance in Lere.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(AFP, 4/30/15)
2015 Apr 29, Mexico published a new rule requiring officials to declare potential conflicts of interest in their private life and financial dealings, a step that President Enrique Pena Nieto had promised after it came to light his wife bought a mansion from a government contractor.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Nepalese authorities said 5,016 people died and more than 10,000 were injured as a result of the massive earthquake that struck April 25. But officials have warned the death toll is expected to rise. India and China, have reported totals of 72 and 25 deaths from the quake, respectively.
(CNN, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, In Norway three football players received prison sentences for rigging matches in the country’s third division. The Oslo District Court convicted them of corruption and fraud for colluding with a Swedish gambler to fix two matches that their teams lost on June 24, 2012. The Swede, who made 340,000 kroner ($57,000) on the results, was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Polish authorities accused Russian journalist Leonid Sviridov of posing a threat to Poland's security, saying that he should lose his right to reside in Poland and the European Union.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A Russian supply capsule that went into an uncontrollable spin after launch was declared a total loss.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule, a major shift in power toward two princes who have overseen a more assertive stance at a time of almost unprecedented regional turmoil. Muhammad bin Nayef (55) was named the new crown prince.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(Econ., 5/2/15, p.41)
2015 Apr 29, Syrian government air raids in Aleppo and its suburbs killed 11 civilians, including at least one child.
(AP, 4/30/15)
2015 Apr 29, Togo's main opposition coalition CAP 2015 rejected results of the West African nation's weekend presidential election after the election commission declared incumbent Faure Gnassingbe the winner.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A Turkish court acquitted 26 activists who helped launch mass protests in May-June 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights campaigners.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, The United Arab Emirates pulverized a mound of confiscated elephant tusks and ivory carvings to send a message against poaching and ivory trafficking.
(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A2)
2015 Apr 29, Pope Francis added his voice to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies advanced in the southern city of Aden, capturing parts of an upscale neighborhood and seizing men they accuse of fighting them from their homes.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Zimbabwe shut down the country's second largest mobile phone service provider, Telecel Zimbabwe, partly for breaching black empowerment laws. International telecom firm VimpelCom, based in the Netherlands, has a 60 percent stake in Telecel Zimbabwe, making it the major shareholder.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2016 Apr 29, US Vice President Joe Biden came to the Vatican to call for a global commitment to fund cancer research that benefits everyone, not just the "privileged and powerful."
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, The United States and Russia agreed on a "freeze" in fighting along two major fronts in Syria, but not in war-ravaged Aleppo as of midnight.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, US Customs and Border protection said seven tons of marijuana have been seized inside a truck at the Otay Mesa port of entry in San Diego.
(SSFC, 5/1/16, p.A7)
2016 Apr 29, In Michigan former Roman Catholic priest James Rapp (75) was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for sexually abusing students at Lumen Christi High School in Jackson in the 1980s. Rapp was in prison in Oklahoma for similar crimes when he was charged in Michigan last year.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, A former head of Brazil's forestry service said Brazil was still losing tropical forests the size of two soccer fields every minute, despite attempts to tackle illegal logging and improve local land rights.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In China a roadside activity center was crushed by stones from an overturned truck, leaving 14 people dead in the southern province of Guizhou. The accident was apparently caused by the failure of the truck's brakes.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Cuban officials said visiting British Foreign Secretary Anthony Hammond has reached an agreement on restructuring Cuban debt payments in a meeting with President Raul Castro.
(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, The European Union said it was giving an additional 38 million euros in cash aid to Haiti, which is combatting drought and a migration crisis with neighboring Dominican Republic.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, An expert panel told the Finnish government that Finland could expect "harsh" reactions from Russia if it decided to join NATO, but would be better off doing so together with neighboring Sweden.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, French riot police arrested 27 people during overnight clashes with dozens of youths in central Paris, following a day of protest marches over labor law reforms that turned violent.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said France will increase the number of its troops in Ivory Coast from 500 to 900, on a trip to the African nation which hosts a regional base for French forces.
(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Germany's federal and local governments reached agreement with public sector workers on a pay rise, settling a dispute that grounded hundreds of flights during a warning strike two days earlier.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Guyana four gunmen raided a hotel casino in Georgetown, leading to a shootout in which five people were wounded. One of the attackers was arrested.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Honduran officials fired more than two dozen top police officers in an aggressive move to purge security forces that have been accused of being infiltrated by organized crime.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Iranians voted in the country's parliamentary runoff elections for 68 seats where no candidate had won decisively in the first round. Reformist and moderate politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won twice as many seats as their conservative rivals in the second round of parliamentary elections.
(AP, 4/29/16)(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Kenya a six-story building in Nairobi collapsed late today following heavy rain. A woman was rescued on May 5 after being trapped for six days in the rubble. Over the next days the death toll rose to 49 people with dozens still missing.
(Reuters, 4/30/16)(AP, 5/5/16)(Reuters, 5/8/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Mauritania thousands of people marched for the rights of former slaves and to denounce injustice against them in the west African nation where slavery persists despite being officially abolished decades ago. Australia-based Walk Free Movement estimated in its 2014 Global Slavery Index that there were 156,000 slaves in Mauritania, or some four percent of the population.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced Kim Dong Chul (62), a Korean American man, to 10 years hard labor for subversion.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Off western Norway a helicopter traveling from a North Sea oil field to Bergen, 120 km (74 miles) away on the Norwegian mainland, crashed into a tiny island killing all 13 aboard. In 2017 the country's Accident Investigation Board (AIBN) said metal fatigue in the aircraft's gearbox caused the crash.
(AP, 4/29/16)(Reuters, 4/28/17)
2016 Apr 29, In Pakistan the charred body of Ambreen Riasat (17) was found in a burned van in the tourist resort of Donga Gali. On May 5 police said they have arrested 13 members of a local tribal council who strangled a local girl and set her body on fire for helping one of her friends elope.
(AP, 5/5/16)
2016 Apr 29, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said security forces have killed two militants before they were able to detonate a car bomb in the southwestern town of Bisha.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, A South African court ruled President Jacob Zuma (74) should face 738 corruption charges that were dropped in 2009.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, South Sudan's leaders formed a transitional coalition government bringing together politicians from the government and the armed opposition who have been at war for two and a half years.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Sri Lanka hundreds of journalists and media rights activists protested to demand the new government start a fresh investigation into the abduction and killing of a prominent ethnic Tamil journalist 11 years ago, during the country's civil war.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo. Crude barrel bombs crashed into residential neighborhoods of Aleppo amid wailing ambulances. At least 17 people were killed in regime bombardment of the city's eastern districts. Rebel groups fired a barrage of rockets on government-controlled western neighborhoods. At least 15 people were killed when rockets struck the Malla Khan mosque in the government held Bab al-Faraj district.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)(AFP, 4/29/16)(SFC, 4/30/16, p.A3)
2016 Apr 29, Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fresh fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the east even as a new truce took effect.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, The UN Security Council voted to restore the UN mission in disputed Western Sahara but was divided over the steps demanded from Morocco to bring the peacekeeping force back to full operations.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets to call for an end to the fighting in the country's conflict.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2017 Apr 29, Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in Washington, DC, to voice concern over climate change in a mass demonstration dubbed the “Peoples Climate March" and also marking the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Multiple tornadoes ripped through Canton, a town in eastern Texas late today, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others. Authorities warned the number of casualties could rise.
(Reuters, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Texas Jordan Edwards (15), a black youth, was killed by police fire as he and other teenagers were driving away from a party in a Dallas suburb. Police Officer Roy Oliver (37), who fired into the car full of teens, turned himself in on May 5 after being charged with murder. He was released after posting a $300,000 bond. On August 28, 2018, Oliver was convicted of murder.
(SFC, 5/2/17, p.A5)(AFP, 5/6/17)(SFC, 8/29/18, p.A7)
2017 Apr 29, In Texas three people were killed when an air ambulance crashed in Amarillo.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A6)
2017 Apr 29, In Afghanistan US Marines returned to the volatile Helmand province, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban.
(AFP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Belarus police informed the wife of leading opposition figure Nikolai Statkevich that he had been arrested and jailed for five days. An unusually widespread wave of protests broke out in Belarus this year and another has been called for May 1 in the capital.
(AP, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Congo DRC three days of rioting began when protesters angered by a string of unsolved murders threw up roadblocks and mobbed government offices in the restive gold-rich Ituri region.
(AFP, 5/1/17)
2017 Apr 29, A Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board.
(AP, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, European Union leaders approved guidelines for their chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, setting priorities that the Union of 27 governments staying in the bloc wants to achieve in talks on Britain's withdrawal.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Germany a gold-and-platinum tiara adorned with 367 diamonds was discovered missing from the Badisches Landesmuesum in Karlsruhe. It was valued at $1.31 million and once belonged to Grand Duchess Hilda von Baden (1864-1952).
(AP, 5/8/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Indonesia torrential rain triggered flooding in the villages in the Central Java district of Magelang. Thirteen people died in flash floods that inundated five villages on Java island.
(AP, 5/2/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Iraq a US service member was killed by an explosive device outside Mosul.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A3)
2017 Apr 29, A North Korean mid-range ballistic missile apparently failed shortly after launch. The third test-fire flop just this month was a clear message of defiance as a U.S. supercarrier conducts drills in nearby waters.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Several hundred Russians lined up in central Moscow under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities. Police detained dozens of activists in Saint Petersburg.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)(AFP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, The South African president’s office said Jacob Zuma has signed the anti-money laundering bill FICA, which allows increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of "prominent individuals", including himself, into law.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Syria's military said its troops and allied fighters have repelled an attack by the Islamic State group on a government-held area south of Aleppo province. IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency claimed IS fighters killed 30 government soldiers in the attack on Um Mayal village east of Khanaser. Fighting between rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near Damascus entered a second day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of at least 38 fighters in the first 24 hours of fighting between rebel groups. It also reported civilian casualties.
(AP, 4/29/17)(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Syria air strikes killed eight White Helmet rescuers in the rebel-held area of Kfar Zeita.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A3)
2017 Apr 29, Thai authorities arrested Prawet Prapanukul (57), an activist lawyer, and five other people. On May 3 they were charged with defaming the monarchy, pushing the tally of people charged with lese majeste to more than 100 since the military seized power in 2014.
(AP, 5/4/17)
2017 Apr 29, Turkey's military reportedly killed 14 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Turkey Blocks, an internet censorship monitor, said users in Turkey have been unable to access all language editions of Wikipedia since 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) today. Access to Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey for content presenting the country as supporting terror.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Turkey the head of an Iranian satellite television network was shot dead in Istanbul together with a business partner. GEM TV founder Saeed Karimian was sentenced last year in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court. Karimian and an associate were driving in Istanbul's Maslak neighborhood after 8 p.m. (1.00 p.m. ET) when their car was blocked by a jeep and shots were fired.
(Reuters, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, The United Nations called for a halt to fighting in South Sudan after the government launched a new offensive earlier this week.
(AFP, 4/29/17)
2018 Apr 29, US border authorities said some people associated with a caravan of asylum seekers from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador were caught trying to slip through the border fence in Tijuana, and encouraged the rest to hand themselves in to authorities. About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek US asylum but were not allowed to cross the Mexico border because officials said the facility was full.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)(Reuters, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, Sprint and T-Mobile announced that they had reached a deal to merge. Deutsche Telekom would own roughly 43 percent of the combined businesses.
(SFC, 4/30/18, p.A7)
2018 Apr 29, In eastern Afghanistan a group of children set off an unexploded mortar round in a residential area, causing a blast that killed a woman and two children in Nangarhar province.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Albania Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (71) celebrated mass in Tirana, the highlight of his first visit to the mainly Muslim country.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Armenia supporters of protest leader Nikol Pashinyan rallied in Yerevan, hoping that a massive show of force two days ahead of a key election will help propel the opposition leader to power.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Australia pledged half a billion dollars to restore and protect the Great Barrier Reef in what it said would be a game-changer for the embattled natural wonder, but conservationists were not convinced.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Austria's OMV signed a deal worth $1.5 billion for a 20 percent stake in two offshore concessions in the United Arab Emirates' capital, Abu Dhabi.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Bangladesh Rohingya refugees made emotional pleas to the UN Security Council for help to return safely to their homes in neighboring Myanmar and for justice over the reason they fled - accusations of killings, rapes and arson.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Luis Garcia Meza Tejada (b.1929), former Bolivian dictator (1980-1981) died at a military hospital in La Paz, where he was serving the remainder of a 30-year prison term.
(SFC, 5/4/18, p.D6)
2018 Apr 29, In India bridegroom Sunil Verma (25) was hit in the chest late today as he performed Hindu wedding rituals. Indian police on May 1 arrested a man accused of killing Verma when he marked his friend's wedding with gunfire.
(AFP, 5/1/18)
2018 Apr 29, At least 15 African migrants died when their boat, which had departed from Morocco, capsized off the Algerian coast while trying to reach Europe.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Iraq sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group. Six women from Azerbaijan and four from Tajikistan were also condemned to life in prison on the same charge.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Kuwait said it stands ready to cooperate with the Philippines to address labor issues facing Filipino workers, but would also "act decisively" against attempts to breach its sovereignty.
(AP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, A Libyan transport plane crashed at an airfield at El Sharara oilfield, killing three people.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, A Myanmar police spokesman said the police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Myanmar's Police Disciplinary Act. Captain Moe Yan Naing had told the court on April 20 that a senior officer had ordered police to "trap" one of the two journalists arrested in December. During that hearing, Moe Yan Naing told the court he had been under arrest since the night of Dec. 12, the date the Reuters reporters were arrested.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider began a hunger strike to bring attention to the killing of Shiites in the city of Quetta. She planned to continue the strike until the army chief visits the city and details concrete steps to bring the killers to justice and protect the religious minority.
(AP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Saudi national oil giant Aramco said that five new members had been appointed to its board of directors, including the first woman in the firm's history. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans (60) is the former head of US oil company Sunoco Inc. and has been director of oil services company Baker Hughes since July last year.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Syrian government forces captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after rare clashes with US-backed Kurdish-led fighters. Six SDF fighters were reported killed. Syrian troops tightened the noose around a major Palestinian refugee camp held by Islamic State militants in southern Damascus where hundreds of civilians face an uncertain future. State media said the government and rebels have reached a deal to evacuate opposition fighters from an area of southern Damascus near the site of a regime offensive against jihadists.
(AP, 4/29/18)(Reuters, 4/29/18)(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In central Syria missile strikes late today killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran's archfoe Israel. The missile strikes hit two military targets in Aleppo and Hama provinces.
(AFP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Thailand over a thousand people gathered in the northern city of Chiang Mai to protest against the building of a government luxury housing project on forested land, in one of the largest demonstrations under military rule.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Tunisia police and military personnel voted in the country's local elections for the first time.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Zimbabwe held primary elections. The voting was extended to May 1 in some constituencies due to disagreements over who should vote, late ballot deliveries and accusations of bribery and cheating by some candidates. Seven government ministers and several allies of President Emmerson Mnangagwa were defeated in the primary elections for parliament.
(Reuters, 5/3/18)
2019 Apr 29, President Donald Trump proposed charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the US.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Stanford biochemist Ron Davis published a description of a biomarker that could be developed as the first simple blood test for chronic disease syndrome.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A1)
2019 Apr 29, John Singleton (51), director of "Boyz N the Hood" (1991) died in Los Angeles after being taken off of life support following a major stroke.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singleton)(SFC, 4/30/19, p.C3)
2019 Apr 29, In Hawaii a helicopter crash in suburban Honolulu killed three people.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A5)
2019 Apr 29, A US federal judge in Oregon blocked a Trump administration attempt to prevent federally funded health care providers from referring pregnant women to abortion clinics.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A5)
2019 Apr 29, Linda Garcia of Vancouver, Washington, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. She rallied local communities to successfully prevent the construction of North America's largest oil terminal.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Nearly 30 hospitals in West Virginia and 10 affiliates in Kentucky signed on to a suit against some of the country's largest opioid companies, saying they flooded Appalachia with powerful painkillers and forced medical centers to deal with the financial repercussions.
(SFC, 5/1/19, p.A6)
2019 Apr 29, Afghanistan's Pres. Ashraf Ghani opened a grand council of more than 3,200 Afghans seeking to agree on a common approach to peace talks with the Taliban. Government forces launched attacks late today in a bid to clear rival militants who have been battling each other for territory in Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border in fighting that has forced thousands of villagers from their homes.
(AP, 4/29/19)(Reuters, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Bangladesh security forces killed at least two people suspected of belonging to an Islamist militant group behind a deadly cafe attack in Dhaka in July 2016.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Human Rights Watch said that Bolivia has undermined judicial independence by arbitrarily dismissing nearly 100 judges since 2017 and it asked the Organization of American States to address the issue.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Imperial College in London opened the world's first Center for Psychedelic Research.
(https://tinyurl.com/yyugw2jd)(Econ, 6/8/19, p.56)
2019 Apr 29, Alberto Curamil of Chile was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. The jailed indigenous activist had protested several hydroelectric projects in the country. His efforts were credited with halting two projects and protecting a critical ecosystem surrounding the Cautin River.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Congo's health ministry confirmed 27 cases of Ebola today, the highest number since the outbreak was declared in August.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Jacqueline Evans of the Cook Islands was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Her work led to the conservation and sustainable management of all 763,000 square miles (1.98 million square km) of the Cook Islands' ocean territory and creation of 15 marine protected areas.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague and elsewhere to protest the proposed replacement of the justice minister.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A2)
2019 Apr 29, A strike among pilots at Scandinavian Airlines, flag carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, entered its fourth day.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, An Ethiopian official revealed his country has finalized preparations to extradite a double-murder suspect to the US. Yohannes Nesibu (25), an Ethiopia-born US national, is accused of killing two other people, who were also Ethiopia-born individuals, in Virginia in 2016.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Ethiopia dozens of civilians were dead in ethnic clashes in northern Amhara state. The attacks appeared to be retribution for the killing of at least 21 people in separate clashes last weekend between the Gumuz and Amhara ethnic groups in Benishangul Gumuz state.
(AFP, 5/3/19)
2019 Apr 29, The European Union said it is prolonging by a year an embargo on any arms that could be used in security crackdowns in Myanmar as well as sanctions against 14 top military and border officials.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, The French government opened a suicide prevention unit for police officers after a sharp rise in the number taking their own lives since the start of this year.
(AFP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In France diplomats from 130 nations gathered in Paris to validate a grim UN assessment of the state of Nature and lay the groundwork for a rescue plan for life on Earth.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, French authorities seized half a ton of cocaine worth around 40 million euros ($44.9 million) in the northern port of Dunkirk in a container ship carrying bananas that had traveled from the small South American nation of Suriname.
(Reuters, 5/14/19)
2019 Apr 29, The fourth phase of India's staggered national election was marred by multiple clashes that injured at least seven people and led to security forces firing warning shots outside one polling station.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Indonesia's disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing in Sumatra island's Bengkulu province following floods sparked by torrential rains.
(AFP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared in a video. He was the latest in a series of most-wanted figures to use the medium to communicate with the outside world.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Alfred Brownell was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for exposing alleged abuse by palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia and helping to prevent it from converting about 20 square miles (about 50 square km) of forest that is home to elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses and chimpanzees. He was forced to flee Liberia in 2016 after the government threatened to arrest him for his activism.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Libya forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter intensified their airstrikes on Tripoli, where heavy fighting and blocked roads have left civilians trapped in their homes.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Bayarjargal Agvaantseren of Mongolia was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. She led the fight to create the 2,800 square miles (7,300 square km) Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Mozambique rains grounded aid flights for a second day, hampering efforts to reach survivors of Cyclone Kenneth as the death toll there jumped to 38.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Cambodia for an official visit to strengthen ties between the countries.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Nigeria jihadists, packed into four trucks and flanked by gunmen on motorbikes, swept into Kuda in Adamawa state late today, shooting down villagers as they ran away killing at least 21 people. Nine more bodies were soon found, taking the total massacred to 30.
(AFP, 5/1/19)
2019 Apr 29, Ana Colovic Lesoska of North Macedonia was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Her seven-year campaign helped stop hydroelectric projects from being built in the country's largest national park and home to the endangered Balkan lynx.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, A Pakistani military spokesman said Pakistan plans to take control of a network of over 30,000 madrasas as part of a drive to "mainstream" the Islamic schools by bringing them under state control.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In the Philippines a fire raged through the top floors of a 21-story residential building in Manila in the middle of a scorching summer, killing an elderly woman and injuring five other people.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Somalia a victim relative said an air strike near the town of Afgoye killed four people. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said it carried out an air strike and that three militants had died in the attack.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Authorities in Sri Lanka banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Sudan six security personnel were killed in clashes with protesters across the country.
(AFP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Syria a US service member died in a non-combat incident.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Tunisia about 5,000 people protested in central Sidi Bouzid city against marginalization and deteriorating conditions, two days after the deaths of 12 female rural workers in a traffic accident.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Turkey police in Ankara detained 17 Iraqis and five Syrians, suspected of links to the Islamic State group, in simultaneous raids as part of a security sweep ahead of Labor Day festivities.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Ugandan pop star and opposition politician known as Bobi Wine was remanded to jail after being charged over his role in a street protest last year against a tax on social media.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2020 Apr 29, California to date had 48,565 cases of coronavirus and 1,939 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 7,965 cases and 281 deaths. The US coronavirus death toll reached 61,000.
(sfist.com, 4/29/20)(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, A federal appeals court panel ruled that Kansas cannot require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states who have pursued restrictive voting laws as a way of combating voter fraud.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Kentucky an Amish family riding a horse and buggy was swept away when their buggy overturned while trying cross a low water bridge in Bath County. One adult survived, four children died and one child was missing. Search crews recovered the last child on May 2.
(https://tinyurl.com/ycmvkvgs)(SFC, 5/4/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) unveiled a plan to provide tuition-free college or technical certification for essential workers who are serving during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, In New York the aging Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Indian Point Energy Center along the Huson River was closed down. Unit 3 wasscheduled to close in april 2021.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that hospital admissions for the coronavirus in New York state remained at about 1,000 a day. Thousands of out of state nurses have come to help NY hospitals.
(SFC, 4/29/20, p.A5)
2020 Apr 29, In NYC police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell. Investigators found that the home had rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Pfizer said it aims to make 10-20 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with Germany's BioNtech by the end of 2020 for emergency use depending on trial results.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Gilead Sciences announced that the company was “aware of positive data" from a federal study of its experimental coronavirus drug, remdesivir.
(NY Times, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that BP is donating 3 million gallons of jet fuel to FedEx and Alaska Airlines to help with the distribution of personal protective equipment in the battle against the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said massive fiscal stimulus measures adopted by governments around the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic must be tailored to tackle climate change at the same time.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted an Afghan special forces base on the outskirts of Kabul killing at least three civilians and wounding 15.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Austria and Switzerland pledged to help Lufthansa with state-backed loans as the German airline pursues talks with Berlin over a 9 billion euro ($9.8 billion) rescue package.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Bosnia reported its sharpest daily rise in coronavirus infections this month after its two autonomous regions had gradually begun to ease lockdowns. There were 93 new infections and two deaths in the previous 24 hours, compared with 20 new infections a day earlier and 49 the day before that.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Canadian hospitals had beds to spare as the country hit 50,373 confirmed coronavirus cases. Several provinces were relaxing public health measures. The virus has killed 2,904 in total and health experts worried about a future wave of infections.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, A Canadian military helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece The military helicopter was taking part in a NATO operation and crashed into the sea between Greece and Italy. Debris from the crash and one body were located, leaving the five others aboard the aircraft missing. On May 2 NATO search and rescue efforts turned to search and recovery as the five missing were presumed dead.
(AP, 4/30/20)(Reuters, 4/30/20)(SSFC, 5/3/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, Czech environment Minister Richard Brabec said the Czech Republic is facing its worst drought in 500 years and some communities could see their supplies run dry.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, The European Commission approved a 5 billion euro ($5.4 billion) loan guarantee to carmaker Renault group to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, India has recorded its 1,000th novel coronavirus death, but the head of a government think-tank said that its 1.3 billion people, strained from weeks of lockdown, were not experiencing the feared exponential surge in infections. India has now reported 31,331 cases, including 1,007 deaths.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Indian artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region hit Pakistani army posts and villages killing a soldier, a woman and a girl (16). India said Pakistani troops had attacked Inidan positions with small arms and mortar shells in at least four places.
(SFC, 5/1/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Indonesia confirmed 260 new infections, taking its total to 9,771, while deaths rose by 11 to 784.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Iran's health ministry announced that 80 new deaths from the novel coronavirus had taken the country's overall toll to 5,957. Another 1,073 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours. 93,657 people have contracted the illness since mid-February. The government has allowed many businesses to reopen since April 11 after shutting most down in mid-March to stem the spread of the disease.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, A Kenyan court refused to lift a ban on a locally-made acclaimed film portraying a lesbian romance. The film's producer said that she would continue to fight for freedom of expression in the East African nation. The film "Rafiki" - which means friend in Kiswahili - was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) in April 2018 on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality in a country where gay sex is a criminal offence.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Lebanese cities were rocked by a third night of unrest as small crowds took to the streets to protest a deepening economic crisis.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Libya's eastern-based forces said they will cease fire for Ramadan, after they suffered setbacks during weeks of intense fighting against the internationally recognized government.
(The Telegraph, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Researchers described an exquisitely preserved fossil of the plant-eating mammal named Adalatherium hui, which lived in Madagascar 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and superficially resembled a badger with its long torso and stubby tail.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Malawi has recorded 36 cases of coronavirus confirmed. Of those, three people are recorded to have died. President Peter Mutharika announced an emergency cash transfer program for the poorest people in what is one of the world's poorest countries.
(BBC, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Mexican Congresswoman Anel Bueno (38), a lawmaker from the western state of Colima, was snatched in Ixtlahuacán. Her body was found in June in a shallow grave following her abduction by armed men and one suspect was reported detained over the killing.
(The Guardian, 6/3/20)
2020 Apr 29, A UN human rights expert said that Myanmar might be committing more war crimes against its ethnic minority populations.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that Niger has been struck by a new outbreak of polio, following the suspension of immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Africa, 14 other countries struggled to contain their polio epidemics, which have also been caused by a rare mutation of the virus in the oral vaccine.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Pakistan said it is preparing to loosen coronavirus lockdown restrictions as the number of infections and deaths are well below previous projections. Pakistan has registered 15,289 cases of COVID-19 including 335 deaths.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A4)
2020 Apr 29, The Philippines' tally of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to more than 8,000.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Russia reported 972 deaths in total for the coronavirus. A Remembrance List showed 74 medical staff who had died from the virus, this included 4 from Belarus. Confirmed cases neared 100,000 after 5,841 new cases were registered overnight along with a record daily rise in the death toll.
(AFP, 4/29/20)(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Serbia has reported 8,497 confirmed cases and 1,678 deaths from COVID-19. Citizens, stuck at home under curfew, vented their anger in a cacophony of tin pans, drums, whistles, and horns at the government and its tough containment measures to curb the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Rioting broke out at the central prison in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown following confirmation of a coronavirus case there.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, South Africa has reported most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa, with more than 4,360, including 86 deaths. Disabled migrants faced hunger as a lockdown continued for a fifth week.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg (87), who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, died at his hoke near Cape Town.
(BBC, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, In South Korea a fire at the construction site of a 4-story warehouse in Icheon killed 38 people.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Spain recorded 325 deaths overnight, against 301 the previous day. Health officials said the coronavirus epidemic was evolving favorably ahead of a gradual easing of its lockdown next week.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Sweden the total confirmed coronavirus cases topped 20,000.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Tanzania reported 509 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths. At this point the government stopped releasing data. The US embassy in Tanzania later warned that there is a risk of "exponential growth" of Covid-19 cases in the country.
(BBC, 5/13/20)
2020 Apr 29, The UN said more than 40 cases of COVID-19 and at least three deaths have been reported in Syria.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Authorities in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden announced a three-day, 24-hour curfew starting at midnight local time, after five confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection were announced.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Authorities in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden announced a three-day, 24-hour curfew starting at midnight local time, after five confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection were announced. Yemen recorded its first two coronavirus deaths. The deaths come after aid organizations warned any coronavirus outbreak could have dire consequences after six years of civil war.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)(AFP, 4/30/20)
2021 Apr 29, The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a $35 billion measure to clean up the nation’s water systems, offering a brief moment of bipartisan cooperation amid deep divisions between the two parties over President Biden’s much larger ambitions for a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure package.
(NY Times, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, US prosecutors said that German software giant SAP will pay more than $8 million in penalties in acknowledging that it illegally exported its products to Iran.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court bolstered the efforts of some long-term immigrants to avoid deportation in a ruling that faulted the federal government for improperly notifying a man who came to the United States illegally from Guatemala to appear for a removal hearing.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Federal agents in Arkansas arrested former reality TV personality Josh Duggar. Josh is eldest child in the Duggar family, which was featured on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting" until the show was canceled after he admitted to sexually abusing underage girls. The following day he was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. Duggar pleaded not guilty to both charges.
(NY Daily News, 4/30/21)(NBC News, 5/1/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Los Angeles Police Department said five suspects have been arrested in the February shooting attack and robbery of a man who was walking Lady Gaga's dogs.
(CBS News, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, California to date had 3,713,791 cases of coronavirus and 61,240 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 435,320 cases and 6,248 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 32,282,063 with the death toll at 575,052.
(sfist.com, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Republicans in the Florida Legislature passed an election overhaul bill that is set to usher in a host of voting restrictions in one of the most critical battleground states in the country, adding to the national push by G.O.P. state lawmakers to reduce voting access.
(NY Times, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, In New York the Indian Point Energy Center permanently stopped producing nuclear power. The plant, 25 miles north of NYC, has been called a threat to millions living in the region.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, Brazil became the 2nd country to top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths. Brazil announced another 3,001, bringing that total to 401,186.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A6)
2021 Apr 29, Rebels seeking to overthrow Chad's new transitional government claimed to have shot down a military helicopter. The junta in power warned political opponents not to renew protests after violent demonstrations earlier in the week left at least six people dead.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Chinese financial watchdogs summoned 13 internet platforms engaged in finance business, including heavyweights Tencent and ByteDance, to order them to strengthen compliance with regulations.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, China launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long term. The Tianhe, or “Heavenly Harmony," module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan. The first stage of the rocket went into orbit and was expected to fall back to Earth on May 8 at an unknow location.
(AP, 4/29/21)(USA Today, 5/6/21)
2021 Apr 29, The upper house of Czech Parliament approved changes in the electoral law requested by the country’s highest court that ruled the previous legislation discriminated against small political parties. The lower house had approved the changes earlier in April.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Czech drugs regulator said it lacked the documentation needed to fully assess Russia's COVID-19 vaccine for possible use, drawing a rebuke from Moscow amid a separate, heated dispute over spying allegations.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Greek Ombudsman called on the government to respond to detailed allegations of so-called pushbacks that deny migrants their right to apply for international protection. Greek authorities have repeatedly denied claims that security forces are involved in summary deportations.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, India's health ministry reported 379,257 new coronavirus infections, the latest in a series of global single-day records set during the country's devastating second wave of COVID-19. India also confirmed another 3,645 COVID-19 deaths, the most it has seen in a single day since the pandemic started.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Italy hit its target of administering 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in a single day.
(Reuters, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria announced they will extend a partial lockdown for another week amid a surge in coronavirus cases. An international aid group warned of oxygen shortages in the neglected region of the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded blame for cross-border shelling and clashes that left at least one person dead.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, It was reported that Lithuanian artist Erikas Malisauskas has raised over $6,000 for LGBT groups by selling a digital collage of homophobic messages that were sent to a member of parliament who champions gay rights causes.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Dutch privacy watchdog said it has fined the eastern city of Enschede for tracking people using mobile phone Wi-Fi signals in a system used to measure crowds. The city's municipality said it is appealing the ruling and 600,000-euro ($730,000) fine.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Pakistan said it has purchased 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from three Chinese companies. Total deaths crossed 17,680 with over 150 deaths today and 5,480 coronavirus cases adding to a total of 815,711.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Russian developers of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 said that they were suing Brazilian regulator Anvisa for defamation, accusing it of having knowingly spread false information without testing their product.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that 16 suspects from a Ukrainian far-right neo-Nazi group known as “Maniacs. Cult of Killers" (M.K.U.) were arrested in connection with a plot to carry out violent attacks in nine of the country’s southern and northern cities.
(The Daily Beast, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, A Moscow judge upheld the defamation conviction against opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
(The Week, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, The UN Security Council held an informal meeting focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The UN World Food Program (WFP) warned that persistent drought in southern Madagascar has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine and stoked acute malnutrition among children.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Pope Francis set a $48 gift cap for all Vatican employees and issued tough new anti-corruption regulations that require Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically declare they are investing only in funds consistent with Catholic doctrine and aren't under criminal investigation or stashing money in tax havens.
(AP, 4/29/21)(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, Vietnam said it had detected its first locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus in 35 days, as authorities ordered tighter surveillance to prevent a new outbreak.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, In Yemen a land mine explosion near the strategic port city of Hodeida killed three children and wounded another three and their mother.
(AP, 4/30/21)
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1289 Apr 29, Qala'un, the Sultan of Egypt, captured Tripoli.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1429 Apr 29, Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War. Legend has it that King Charles VII of France had a suit of armor made for Joan at a cost of 100 war horses. In 1996 a suit of armor was found and proposed to be Joan’s armor.
(ATC, p.107) (SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10) (AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1522 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V named Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1535 Apr 29, John Houghton, English, was executed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1550 Apr 29, Emperor Charles V gave inquisitors additional authority.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1553 Apr 29, A Flemish woman introduced to England the practice of starching linen.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1584 Apr 29, Melchior Teschner, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1623 Apr 29, 11 Dutch ships departed for the conquest of Peru.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1624 Apr 29, Louis XIII appointed Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1636 Apr 29, Esaias Reusner, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1661 Apr 29, Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1667 Apr 29, John Arbuthnot (d.1735), Scottish mathematician, was born. With Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay and Thomas Parnell he founded the Scriblerus Club in 1714, whose purpose was to satirize bad poetry and pedantry. The club was short-lived.
(http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Arbuthnot.html)
(MC, 4/29/02)
1672 Apr 29, King Louis XIV of France invaded the Netherlands. A French army of 100,000 crossed the Rhine and invaded the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Golden Age fell apart when England, France and a pair of German principalities teamed up to attack the Netherlands and seize its colonies.
(HN, 4/29/99)(PC, 1992ed., p.255)(Econ, 4/18/20, p.38)
1676 Apr 29, Michiel A. de Ruyter (69), Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), was killed.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1707 Apr 29, English-Scottish parliament accepted Act of Union and formed Great Britain. [see May 1]
(MC, 4/29/02)
1727 Apr 29, Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, choreographer (ballet d'action), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1745 Apr 29, Oliver Ellsworth, third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1769 Apr 29, The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) was born.
(CFA, '96, p.44)
1771 Apr 29, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (b.1700), Italian architect, died in St. Petersburg. He was born in Paris and spent his entire career in Russia. His work included the Winter Palace (1754-1762) in St. Petersburg, which later became the Hermitage Museum.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Bartolomeo_Rastrelli)
1781 Apr 29, French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1783 Apr 29, David Cox (d.1857), English watercolorist, was born. He books included “Treatise on Landscape Painting" (1813).
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.B5)(www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Cox_David/Cox_David.htm)
1793 Apr 29, John Michell (b.1724) English clergyman and natural philosopher, died in Yorkshire. He provided pioneering insights in a wide range of scientific fields, including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. Michell was the first person to propose that black holes existed.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell)
1784 Apr 29, Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna).
(MC, 4/29/02)
1798 Apr 28, Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" was rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1813 Apr 29, Rubber was patented.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1834 Apr 29, Charles Darwin's expedition saw the top of Andes from Patagonia.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1842 Apr 29, Karl Millocker (d.1899), conductor, composer (Beggar Student), was born in Austria.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mill%C3%B6cker)
1852 Apr 29, The first edition of Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was published. Roget (1779-1869) was a London physician of French-Swiss ancestry who began to collect and organize English words to improve his public speaking.
(HN, 4/29/98)(WSJ, 9/3/98, p.B1)
1854 Apr 29, Henri Poincare (1912), French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, was born. He investigated the idea of space and led to the notion that space is too complex for mathematics. Rather space is an assumption, and it can be described and controlled only so far as we assume it. In other words there is no such thing as space. Instead, there are as many spaces as there are people... for every person can assume an indefinite number of different spaces.
(V.D.-H.K.p.272)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9)
1855 Apr 29, Anatol K. Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS], was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1856 Apr 29, During the Tule River War Yokut Indians repelled a second attack by the 'Petticoat Rangers,' a band of civilian Indian fighters-some wearing body armor-at Four Creeks, California. The Yokuts lived along the shores of Tulare Lake in the Central Valley, which disappeared by 1900 due to water diversion and farming.
(HN, 4/29/00)(WW, 6/99)
1856 Apr 29, A peace treaty between England and Russia was signed.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1858 Apr 29, Austrian troops invaded Piedmont (Italy).
(HN, 4/29/98)
1859 Apr 29, In the Italian Campaign some 150,000 Piedmontese troops invaded Piedmontese territory as the French army raced to support them and the Austrian army mobilized to oppose them.
(HN, 4/29/00)
1860 Apr 29, Lorado Taft, US sculptor (Black Hawk), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1861 Apr 29, The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from the Union.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1861 Apr 29, In Australia the Burke party shot one of their last 2 camels after it got stuck in mud. Supplies were divided between the 3 men and one camel.
(ON, 12/01, p.4)
1862 Apr 29, Forts Philip and Jackson surrendered to Union forces under Admiral Farragut outside New Orleans.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1862 Apr 29, 100,000 federal troops prepared to march into Corinth, Miss.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1863 Apr 29, William Randolph Hearst (d.1951), American newspaper publisher, was born. He helped launch the Spanish-American War. "Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster." In 1998 Ben Proctor authored “William Randolph Hearst – The Early Years, 1863-1910."
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFEM, 12/12/98, p.8)(AP, 5/1/99)
1868 Apr 29, The US government and the Sioux Indians signed a treaty that ended Red Cloud’s War. The 1868 treaty at Fort Laramie (Wyoming Territory) made the Black Hills part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
(http://tinyurl.com/me6pfxd)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.37)(AH, 6/03, p.36)
1877 Apr 29, Tad Dorgen, cartoonist and columnist, was born.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1879 Apr 29, Sir Thomas Beecham, founder of London Philharmonic, was born.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1893 Apr 29, Harold C. Urey, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), was born in Indiana.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1883 Apr 29, Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (b.1808), German economist, died. He was responsible for organizing of the world's first credit unions.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hermann_Schulze-Delitzsch)(Econ, 5/24/14, p.79)
1894 Apr 29, The Commonweal of Christ, called Coxey's Army, arrived in Wash, DC, 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey was arrested for trespassing at Capitol.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1895 Apr 29, Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts), was born.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1899 Apr 29, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (d.1974), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington DC.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.32)(AP, 4/29/99)
1901 Apr 29, Hirohito, emperor of Japan (1926-1989), was born.
(HN, 4/29/99)(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, In the 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence won in 2:07.75.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1901 Apr 29, Anti Semitic riot took place in Budapest.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1907 Apr 29, Fred Zinnemann (d.3/14/97), Hollywood film director, was born in Vienna. His films included “A Hatful of Rain," “The Sundowners," “The Nun’s Story," “From Here to Eternity," “Julia" and “A Man for All Seasons" (1966) with Paul Scofield.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)(AP, 4/29/07)
1909 Apr 29, Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch), was born in Ky.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1913 Apr 29, Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patented an all-purpose zipper. The name was coined by B.F. Goodrich, who used it to fasten rubber galoshes. [see Apr 21]
(HN, 4/29/98)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)
1916 Apr 29, The Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities. Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin during Easter Uprising.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1916 Apr 29, The British 6th Indian Division under General Townshend surrendered to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut after a siege of 147 days. Around 13,000 Allied soldiers survived to be made prisoners.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kut)
1918 Apr 29, America's WWI Ace of Aces, Eddie Rickenbacker, scored his first victory with the help of Captain James Norman Hall. He eventually racked up 26 victories before the end of the war.
(HN, 4/29/99)
1919 Apr 29, A parcel bomb aimed at US Senator Thomas Hardwick and designed to explode on May day, exploded unsuccessfully. It was one of nearly 30 devices sent by anarchist groups to politicians, judges and businessmen.
(Econ, 11/6/10, p.74)
1922 Apr 29, A 100-mile-long battle raged near Peking, China.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1924 Apr 29, Open revolt broke out in Santa Clara, Cuba.
(HN, 4/29/98)
1927 Apr 29, Construction of the Spirit of St Louis was completed. B.F. Mahoney was the ‘mystery man’ behind the Ryan Aeronautical Company that built Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Engineer Donald Hall designed the $10,580 plane to carry 400 gallons of fuel.
(HN, 4/29/98)(ON, 2/08, p.1)
1927 Apr 29, With concern that Mississippi flood waters could overflow the city of New Orleans the levee at Caernarvon, Louisiana, was dynamited downstream of the city, with the intention of increasing the speed of the river as it passed New Orleans and hence reducing the height of the anticipated flood wave.
(www.rms.com/publications/1927_MississippiFlood.pdf)
1930 Apr 29, The film “All Quiet on the Western Front," based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel “Im Western Nichts Neues," premiered.
(HN, 4/29/01)
1930 Apr 29, Telephone connection England-Australia went into service.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1933 Apr 29, Constantine Cavafy (b.1863), Greek poet, died in Alexandria, Egypt. The 1996 Greek film "Cavafy" was a profile of the Greek homosexual poet, and a winner of Greece’s National Film Award for best feature of the year. Cavafy spent 30 years working as a clerk in the Ministry of Irrigation. In 2006 “The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy," translated by Aliki Barstone, was published.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.E4)(SSFC, 6/24/01, DB p.64)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kafavis.htm)
1935 Apr 29, It was reported that live rabbits were being sewn onto dog-track racing machines in the San Francisco Bay Area counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara.
(SSFC, 4/25/10, DB p.54)
1936 Apr 29, Zubin Mehta, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1976), was born in Bombay, India.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1939 Apr 29, Whitestone Bridge, connecting Bronx and Queens, opened.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1940 Apr 29, Norwegian King Haakon and government fled to England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1942 Apr 29, Japanese troops marched into Lashio and cut off the Burma Road.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Noel Coward's "Present Laughter," premiered in London.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Internationally prominent theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer was arrested by Nazis.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1943 Apr 29, Karl Adrian Wohlfart (68), composer, died.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, American soldiers liberated 31,601 in the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun (b.1912) and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz his successor. Hitler and Braun committed suicide the next day. In 2011 Heike B. Gortemaker authored “Eva Braun: Life With Hitler."
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)(SSFC, 10/30/11, p.F5)
1945 Apr 29, The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies. In 1956 Norman Kogan, historian at the Univ of Connecticut, wrote "Italy and the Allies."
(HN, 4/29/99)(SFC, 9/21/99, p.E4)(MC, 4/29/02)
1945 Apr 29, Japanese army evacuated Rangoon.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1946 Apr 29, The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convened in Tokyo for Japanese War Crimes. 28 former leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death. Allies indicted Hideki Tojo, former premier and war minister of Japan, with 55 counts of war crimes. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East meted out justice to Japanese war criminals at locations throughout Asia.
(https://tinyurl.com/4x7sfpd2)(AP, 11/12/97)(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A15)(AP, 4/29/07)
1947 Apr 29, Irving Fisher (b.1867), American economist, died. His Fisher hypothesis is the proposition that the real interest rate is independent of monetary measures, especially the nominal interest rate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fisher)
1951 Apr 29, Ludwig Wittgenstein (b.1889), Austrian-born philosopher, died in Cambridge, England. His “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicos" (1921) purported to address all of philosophy’s major problems. His posthumous work was edited by Elizabeth Uncombed (d.2001), and included his "Philosophical Investigations" (1953).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein)(SFC, 1/16/01, p.C4)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.W10)
1954 Apr 29, India’s Jawaharla Nehru and China’s Zhou Enlai signed the “Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence." In India this became known as the as the as the Panchsheel Treaty. It entered into force on June 3.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Principles_of_Peaceful_Coexistence)(Econ, 7/31/04, p.36)
1957 Apr 29, The 1st military nuclear power plant was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot), was born in England.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1958 Apr 29, Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, was born in Midway City, Calif.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1959 Apr 29, Premier Castro denied any Cuban role, direct or indirect, in a Panamanian invasion.
(DBD, p.824)
1961 Apr 29, ABC's "Wide World of Sports made its debut.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.38)(MC, 4/29/02)
1961 Apr 29, The diesel-powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. In 1976 the ship was drydocked in Bremerton, Wa., for a year-long overhaul.
(AP, 8/5/05)(www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/history/history.html)
1962 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1965 Apr 29, Seattle experienced an earthquake. 7 people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5 million.
(http://neic.usgs.gov)
1965 Apr 29, Australian government announced it would send troops to Vietnam.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1968 Apr 29, The counterculture musical "Hair" opened on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway.
(AP, 4/29/08)
1968 Apr 29, Dr. Ralph Abernathy led The Poor People's Campaign in Washington D.C., less than a month after the assassination of King. It concluded on June 23. The campaign was for reforms in welfare, employment and housing policies. Abernathy was the successor to Rev. Martin Luther King as head of the Southern Christian Leadership conference.
(HNQ, 1/19/99)
1970 Apr 29, Andre Agassi, tennis star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born in Las Vegas, Nev.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi)
1970 Apr 29, Uma Thurman, actress, was born in Boston, Mass. Her films included “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988) and “Pulp Fiction" (1994).
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000235/)
1970 Apr 29, In Australia a large wooden log was placed on the winding track in front of a royal train carrying Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip to the town of Orange. The train did not derail as it was traveling too slowly. The incident was only revealed in 2009 by a retired detective.
(AFP, 1/28/09)
1970 Apr 29, 50,000 US and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia [see Apr 30].
(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)(www.democraticcentral.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1972)
1971 Apr 29, Bill Graham announced the close of the Fillmore in SF and the Fillmore East in NYC along with his retirement from concert promotion. He was angered by his perceived greed of rock bands and the anger and distrust of his audience. He soon relented and put on shows with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, the Who and the Grateful Dead. The final concert at Fillmore East took place on June 27.
(SFC,12/13/97, p.A15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillmore_East)
1974 Apr 29, President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1975 Apr 29, US forces pulled out of Vietnam. The US embassy was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon. Just hours after the last American was lifted out by helicopter from the roof of the embassy, James Reston of the NY Times issued an apologia for the press. NVA shelled Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon, killing two US Marines at the compound gate. The last C-130A Hercules at Tan Son Nhut Air Base carried 452 people to Thailand. South Vietnamese civilians looted the air base. President Ford ordered Operation Frequent Wind, the helicopter evacuation of 7000 Americans and South Vietnamese from Saigon. At Tan Son Nhut, frantic civilians begin swarming the helicopters. The evacuation then shifted to the walled-in American embassy, secured by US Marines in full combat gear. Thousands of civilians attempted to get into the compound. Three US aircraft carriers stood by off the coast to handle incoming Americans and South Vietnamese refugees. Many South Vietnamese pilots also landed on the carriers, flying American-made helicopters which were then pushed overboard to make room for more arrivals.
(http://tinyurl.com/gmqh5)(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)(http://tinyurl.com/qerc2wt)
1975 Apr 29, The last four Americans killed in action in Vietnam included two Marines: Lance Corporal Darwin Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Corporal Charles McMahon Jr. of Woburn, Massachusetts, by rocket and artillery bombardment following an air raid on Tan Son Nhut. Two Marine helicopter pilots died when their chopper crashed into the sea near an aircraft carrier taking part in the evacuation: Captain William Craig Nystul of Coronado, California, and First Lieutenant Michael John Shea of El Paso, Texas.
(www.dixiedavis.com/michaelshea.htm)
1977 Apr 29, Donald Evans (b.1945), American artist, died in a fire in the Netherlands. His work included the creation of postage stamp series for imaginary countries.
(WSJ, 2/5/03, p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Evans_(artist))
1979 Apr 29, Democracy was restored in Ecuador. Jaime Roldos Aguilera was elected as president in a 2nd round of voting. He was killed in plane crash in 1981.
(AP, 4/21/05)(Econ, 10/14/06, p.39)(www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/ecu79pres.html)
1980 Apr 29, Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (b.1899), British director (Psycho, Birds), died in Los Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)
1981 Apr 29, Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe (b.1946) admitted in a London court to being the "Yorkshire Ripper," the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year period. He was convicted on May 22 and sentenced to serve a minimum of 30 years.
(AP, 4/29/00)(AP, 1/13/04)
1981 Apr 29, In Sydney, Australia, 16 patients died in a nursing home fire in suburban Sylvania Heights.
(AP, 11/19/11)(http://tinyurl.com/6sq3xp8)
1982 Apr 29, The Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The aim of International Dance Day is to celebrate dance as an art form and to bring people together in peace and friendship through the shared language of dance. The date was chosen in commemoration of the death of the greatly influential dancer, choreographer and innovator Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810).
(http://www.pch.gc.ca/arts/dance/danse_e.htm)
1982 Apr 29, Alfredo Magana was elected president of El Salvador.
(www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/ced-timeline-1982.html)
1983 Apr 29, Harold Washington was sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.
(AP, 4/29/98)(HN, 4/29/98)
1986 Apr 29, Some 350,000 books were damaged by fire and water in the LA Central Library.
(http://tinyurl.com/y3ssgk)
1986 Apr 29, Raul Prebisch (b.1901), Argentine policy maker and economic diplomat, died in Santiago, Chile. In 2009 Edgar J. Dosman authored “The Life and Times of Raul Prebisch."
(Econ, 3/7/09, p.90)(http://tinyurl.com/cgd359)
1986 Apr 29, Seamus McElwaine (25), Irish IRA-terrorist, was killed by undercover members of the British Army in County Fermanagh.
(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1986.html)
1988 Apr 29, Molloko, the 1st California condor chick conceived in captivity, was born in the San Diego Zoo.
(www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:6703253)
1988 Apr 29, McDonald's announced it would open its first restaurants in Moscow.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1988 Apr 29, James McCracken (61), US tenor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCracken)
1988 Apr 29, In Pakistan Pres. Zia-ul Haq dismissed the government Mohammed Khan Junejo on charges of incompetence.
(SFC, 1/30/97, p.A9)
1989 Apr 29, In a sign that student demonstrators in Beijing had gained influence, China's government conducted informal talks with leaders of the democracy protests, and then televised the discussions.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1990 Apr 29, The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a mission which included deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1991 Apr 29, US troops continued airlifting Iraqi refugees from a camp in southern Iraq to Saudi Arabia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1991 Apr 29, George Sperti (91), inventor of Preparation H, died.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-so.htm)
1991 Apr 29-1991 Apr 31, A cyclone in Bangladesh killed an estimated 131,000 people. 9 million were left homeless. Thousands of survivors died from hunger and water borne disease.
(http://tinyurl.com/duk2u)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1991 Apr 29, More than 100 people were killed and some 100,000 were left homeless when a strong earthquake struck Soviet Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/01)
1992 Apr 29, "Falsettos" opened at John Golden Theater in NYC for 487 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4686)
1992 Apr 29, Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, N.J., home by Arthur Seale, a former Exxon security official, and Seale's wife, Irene, and held for ransom; Reso died in captivity. Arthur Seale is serving a 95-year prison term, while his wife is serving a 20-year sentence.
(AP, 4/29/02)
1992 Apr 29, Deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. White truck driver Reginald Denny was beaten by a mob in south Central LA angered by the acquittal of 4 police officers caught on video tape in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. Three days of violence ensued with 55 people killed, 2,300 injured and an estimated $1 billion [$717 million] in property damages. Rioters tore through the city following the not guilty verdicts on state charges for Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Stacey C. Koon and officer Laurence M. Powell for beating Rodney King. 1093 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Of these, 764 retail stores were owned by Koreans. The US Congress later authorized $1 billion to revitalize south central Los Angeles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1992)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A4)(SFC, 1/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/4/97, p.CA1)(AP, 4/29/98)(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A3)
1993 Apr 29, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announced that, for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1994 Apr 29, Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1994 Apr 29, A ferry boat capsized near Mombasa, Kenya, and 272 people were killed.
(http://65.18.147.106/archive/102002/msg00163.html)
1994 Apr 29, Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the terror of ethnic massacres in Rwanda were pouring into Tanzania.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1995 Apr 29, 10 days after the blast, rescue workers in Oklahoma City continued the grim task of searching for bodies and pulling debris from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people died.
(AP, 4/29/00)
1996 Apr 29, "Rent" opened at Nederlander Theater in NYC.
(www.broadway.com/_grp/groups_show.aspx?SI=1257)
1996 Apr 29, Opening ceremonies were held for The Stratosphere Tower of Robert Stupak in Las Vegas. The structure rises 1,149 feet. The last 149 feet consist of a needle perched atop a swollen bulb.
(SFC, 5/26/96, T-3)
1997 Apr 29, The Global Anti-Golf Movement, GAG’M, proclaimed a World No-Golf Day.
(Hem., 1/97, p.47)
1997 Apr 29, Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
(AP, 4/29/07)
1997 Apr 29, Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, It was reported that a monster fountain of antimatter was discovered erupting from the core of the Milky Way. Observations from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory launched by NASA in 1991 made the observations since last November.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A5)
1997 Apr 29, Newspaper columnist Mike Royko died in Chicago at age 64.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/98)
1997 Apr 29, In Brazil a court injunction stopped the privatization of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the huge state-owned mining company. Some 1,000 demonstrators protested the attempted privatization in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
(SFC, 4/30/97, p.A11)
1997 Apr 29, In China at Rongjiawan in Hunan province a train crash killed at least 67 and injured 260 people.
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 29, The French oil company Total signed a $2 billion contract to explore for gas in Iran despite warnings from the Clinton administration.
(SFC, 9/30/97, p.A14)
1997 Apr 29, In Indonesia police broke up a demonstration and 5 activists were given 7-13 year prison terms on charges of subversion.
(SFC, 4/29/97, p.A10)
1997 Apr 29, The UN ban on chemical weapons went into effect. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was formed this year to enforce the Chemical Weapons convention.
(http://tinyurl.com/owskts7)(AP, 4/29/98)
1998 Apr 29, The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1998 Apr 29, The US and European powers decided to impose new sanctions and agreed to freeze the assets of Yugoslavia. A ban on investments would follow in 10 days if security police was not withdrawn from Kosova.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1998 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court called for ending judicial delays of execution in a 5-4 vote. This reversed the US Court of Appeals Aug, 1997, reprieve for Thomas Thompson, accused of the 1981 murder of Ginger Fleischli in California and reinstated his death penalty.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Apr 29, In England it was reported that Nicholas van Hoogstraten was building the largest and most expensive house of the century in Sussex, named Hamilton Place at a cost of $50 million. The palace was to include a gallery for his French furniture and a mausoleum for his future.
(WSJ, 4/29/98, p.A20)
1998 Apr 29, British writer Douglas Adams, author of the 1979 classic “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," began marketing his CD-ROM game “Starship Titanic."
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.E1)
1998 April 29, Israel formally opened the celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding. According to the Gregorian calendar, the anniversary fell on May 14th.
(WSJ, 4/30/98, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
1998 Apr 29, In the Philippines Imelda Marco withdrew from the presidential race.
(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A8)
1999 Apr 29, Rev. Jesse Jackson and a delegation of religious leaders arrived in Belgrade to talk with Pres. Milosevic concerning the release of 3 captured Americans.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, The US decided to sell an early-warning radar system to Taiwan.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D4)
1999 Apr 29, US planes bombed sites in the no-fly zone of northern Iraq after being attacked by missiles and anti-aircraft fire. Iraq said 20 civilians were injured in Mosul and 4 in separate attacks in the south.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D8)
1999 Apr 29, NATO jets struck Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade and the federal interior ministry. A telecommunications tower was hit and knocked Serbian TV off the air.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Bulgaria an errant NATO HARM missile hit a home in Gorna Banya on the outskirts of Sofia. There were no casualties.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13,D2)
1999 Apr 29, China announced that 1.6 million people would be allowed to move to Hong Kong over the next 10-13 years.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D7)
1999 Apr 29, In Colombia a 2,500 member group of the Embera-Katio Indians called for a safe haven in Europe due to the civil war in their homeland.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.B1)
1999 Apr 29, In India Jessica Lall, a young New Delhi bartender, was shot and killed by Manu Sharma (24), after she refused him a drink at closing time. On Feb 21, 2006, Sharma the son of a powerful and wealthy politician with interests in sugar mills, and 8 friends were acquitted. Protesters took to the streets, holding candlelight vigils and waving signs calling for justice; officials from the president to the capital's police chief called for a review of the investigation. Courts convicted Sharma in 2006 and sentenced him to life in prison. In 2011 the Hindi film “No One Killed Jessica" was based on this story.
(AP, 3/10/06)(Econ, 1/15/11, p.96)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lall)
1999 Apr 29, In Macedonia another 6,500 refugees arrived. 3 refugees were killed by a mine as they attempted to cross the border northwest of Blace.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A13)
1999 Apr 29, In Japan Honda announced that its last EV Plus electric car was built in March.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 29, In Russia Pres. Yeltsin approved a plan for upgrading thousands of short-range or tactical nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 4/30/99, p.D5)
1999 Apr 29, Yugoslavia filed World Court cases against 10 countries, including the United States, claiming their bombing campaign breached international law.
(AP, 4/29/00)
2000 Apr 29, Lennox Lewis knocked out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
(AP, 4/29/01)
2000 Apr 29, In Washington DC some 1000 gay and lesbian couples proclaimed their love at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the events leading to the 4th annual Millennium March the next day.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A13)
2000 Apr 29, In Chechnya Alman Mesiyev, the mayor of Khattuni, was shot at close range by rebels for cooperating with Russian troops.
(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 29, In Malaysia a court upheld the 1999 corruption conviction against former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A17)
2000 Apr 29, In Pakistan it was reported that the worst drought in 100 years ravaged southern Sindh and Baluchistan provinces. Up to 500 people were dead from diseases related to the drought.
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A14)
2000 Apr 29, In the Philippines fighting on Basilan Island left 4 soldiers dead and 27 wounded. On Sulu Island kidnappers made a written demands that included the return of barter trade to the southern Philippines, a ban on large fishing boats to protect local fishermen, and full implementation of a 1976 agreement that called for a 13-province Muslim autonomous region.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, p.C14)
2000 Apr 29, In Vietnam Pham Van Dong, former revolutionary and prime minister, died at age 94.
(SFC, 5/3/00, p.A24)
2001 Apr 29, Nasa scientists reported that they had contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, launched in 1972, after 8 months of no communication.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A7)
2001 Apr 29, The International Monetary Fund endorsed a program to establish better procedures to prevent a repeat of the 1997-98 Asian currency crisis that plunged two-fifths of the world into recession.
(AP, 4/29/02)
2001 Apr 29, China offered to allow US officials to inspect the US Navy spy plane on Hainan Island.
(SFC, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, Sri Lanka appealed for peace talks following bloody battles and retreats in the north.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2001 cApr 29, In Uganda Pres. Museveni withdrew from a peace pact in anger over a UN report on plundering.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, A year after the loss of a seat it had held for over 50 years, the United States won election to the UN Human Rights Commission.
(WSJ, 4/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 4/29/03)
2002 Apr 29, US forces in Afghanistan engaged al Qaeda fighters near the Pakistan border and killed 4.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, The 1st 20 of some 2000 US soldiers landed in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 29, Two suits were filed against Cardinal Roger Mahoney of LA for violation of racketeering laws by protecting priests who molested children.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, Britain decided to treat al Qaeda and Taliban fighters as prisoners of war and turn them over to the interim Afghan government.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2002 Apr 29, Israeli forces went into Hebron and at least 9 people were killed and dozens arrested. It was a retaliation for the Apr 27 attack.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Apr 29, In Liberia Pres. Taylor suspended all political activity. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, leader of the opposition Unity Party, returned to Liberia to gear up for elections.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, In Madagascar the High Court ruled that opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana received over 51% of the vote in December and that Pres. Ratsiraka won close to 36%. Ratsiraka said he would not abide by the vote.
(SFC, 5/1/02, p.A13)
2002 Apr 29, Turkey officially agreed to take command of the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.
(SFC, 4/30/02, p.A15)
2003 Apr 29, Pres. Bush embraced a plan for a $15 billion AIDS initiative that included money for groups that promote birth control and abortion.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A3)
2003 Apr 29, The US said it would withdraw all combat forces from Saudi Arabia.
(SFC, 4/29/03, A14)
2003 Apr 29, The governor of Virginia signed a tough anti-spam law that called for prison and asset seizures.
(WSJ, 4/30/03, A1)
2003 Apr 29, Tyco Corp. reported some $1.2 billion in fresh accounting problems on top of some $265-325 million reported in March. [See Sep 29]
(WSJ, 1/2/04, p.R9)
2003 Apr 29, The World Health Organization ended its warning that travelers avoid Toronto, Canada.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, China reported 9 more deaths and more than 200 new cases, most of them in the capital Beijing.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, In Colombia the high court has stripped President Alvaro Uribe of the emergency powers he assumed last year to battle leftist rebels.
(AP, 4/30/03)
2003 Apr 29, Croatian wartime army chief Janko Bobetko (84), hailed at home as a hero of Croatia's 1991 struggle for independence but charged with war crimes by a UN court, died.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, The leaders of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, all critics of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, agreed to beef up their military cooperation in an effort to make Europe's defense less reliant on the US.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Indian troops raided a base of suspected Islamic militants in Kashmir, sparking a firefight that lasted more than five hours and resulted in 17 deaths.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Apr 29, Pakistani police arrested six men linked to al-Qaeda, including a Yemeni man, Tawfiq Attash Khallad (Waleed bin Attash), wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole.
(AP, 4/30/03)(WSJ, 5/1/03, A1)(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, The Palestinian parliament approved Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister, clearing the final obstacle to the launch of a U.S.-backed "road map" to peace.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2003 Apr 29, A Palestinian suicide bombing killed 3 Israelis in a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub. The bomber, Asif Hanif (21), grew up in Britain. A 2nd bomber escaped.
(AP, 4/30/03)(SFC, 5/2/03, p.A8)
2003 Apr 29, Qataris voted on their first permanent constitution.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2004 Apr 29, The US Sep 11 panel held a joint interview behind closed doors with Pres. Bush and VP Cheney.
(WSJ, 4/29/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington DC. Official dedication was set for May 29.
(AP, 4/29/04)(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2004 Apr 29, GM ended production of its Oldsmobile line (b.1897), named after Ransom E. Olds. The last Olds Alero rolled of a GM assembly line in Lansing, Mich.
(SFC, 4/28/04, p.C1)
2004 Apr 29, Google unveiled an IPO that could raise as much as $2.7 billion.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Cleanup crews arrived at Suisun Marsh in the SF Bay area to tackle an estimated 60,000 gallon diesel fuel spill from a pipeline operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners of Houston, Texas.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, Thousands of Cubans, young and old, played their favorite game into the night to break the world record for most people playing chess simultaneously.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, US Marines announced an agreement to end a bloody, nearly month long siege of Fallujah, saying American forces will pull back and allow an all-Iraqi force commanded by one of Saddam Hussein's generals to take over security. Elsewhere 10 U.S. soldiers were killed, 8 of them from a car bomb south of Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/04)(WSJ, 4/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 29, In Peru 800 people in a village near Lake Titicaca took five aldermen hostage Thursday after their mayor fled in fear of his life.
(AP, 4/29/04)
2004 Apr 29, A Russian court acquitted 4 commando officers in the shooting deaths of 6 Chechen civilians, after the officers admitted in court that they mistakenly opened fire on their vehicle and set the car on fire to conceal the incident based on orders from superiors.
(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A3)
2005 Apr 29, NASA again delayed the first space shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster, worrying that ice falling off fuel tank could doom Discovery.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, Apple began selling the Tiger operating system, OS X version 10.4, for the Mac computer.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.C1)
2005 Apr 29, Afghan security forces opened fire during a celebration in a western city, killing a mother and her daughter. In central Afghanistan an airstrike on a suspected insurgent camp killed three civilians and four militants. A bomb tore through a jeep carrying Afghan anti-drug police in eastern Afghanistan, killing 3 officers and injuring two more, in the first deadly attack on the country's new counter-narcotics forces.
(AP, 4/30/05)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, In Colombia government troops consolidated their grip on Tacuejo, a mountain town retaken from leftist rebels, and the town's Indian residents slowly began to return despite fears of more violence.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The German government finally scaled back its 2005 growth forecasts, acknowledging that its earlier prognosis had been too optimistic in face of high oil prices and an unexpected economic contraction at the end of last year.
(AFP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, An audiotape purportedly by America's most-wanted insurgent in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, posted on the Internet and threatened more attacks against U.S. forces and urges followers to be wary of any American attempts at dialogue.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents staged a series of car bombings and other attacks, killing at least 41 people, including three US soldiers, a day after the country's first democratically elected government was approved.
(AP, 4/29/05)(AP, 4/29/06)
2005 Apr 29, India signed a pact with the United Nations to combat HIV infections among military personnel after defense authorities sounded a health alert last week.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The head of India's new task force, fighting to save the nation's dwindling stock of tigers, said the big cats were on the verge of extinction, because of rampant poaching for their body parts.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Insurgents set off at least 17 bombs in Iraq, killing at least 50 people, including 5 US soldiers, in a series of attacks aimed at shaking Iraq's newly formed government.
(SFC, 4/30/05, p.A1)(AP, 5/1/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy and the United States said they had failed to agree on whether U.S. soldiers were at fault in the death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
(AP, 4/30/05)
2005 Apr 29, Italy slashed its 2005 growth forecast by almost half to 1.2 percent and warned its budget deficit could hit 4 percent of gross domestic product.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi wooed India, aiming to build a partnership with New Delhi to cope with the growing clout of China in a changing continent.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Heavy rains in western Romania have flooded hundreds of villages, forcing 3,700 people to abandon their homes and disrupting rail and road traffic.
(Reuters, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath on the late-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tomb and held talks with Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinians held out little hope for concrete results.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Sri Lanka's government ordered a "full-scale investigation" into the slaying of a senior Tamil journalist who was abducted overnight as he left a restaurant.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, The UN health agency reported 18 new cases of polio in Yemen and said more people are believed infected, sparking fears of an epidemic in the Middle Eastern country with a low immunization rate among children.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 Apr 29, Vietnam marked the 30th anniversary of war's end.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Thousands of US anti-war demonstrators converged on lower Manhattan to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A rock slide at Ferguson Ridge, 8 miles west of El Portal, Ca., shut down the Highway 140 connection to Yosemite National Park.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 29, John Kenneth Galbraith (97), an influential liberal Canadian-born economist and author, died in Massachusetts. His more than 40 works included “American Capitalism" (1952), "The Affluent Society" (1958), in which he argued that the US had become rich in consumer goods but poor in social services and “The New Industrial State" (1967).
(Reuters, 4/30/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.86)
2006 Apr 29, Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants hiding in a cave complex in the southern Helmand province, killing 11 insurgents after militants killed three policemen and wounded another in an ambush. An Afghan cell phone company confirmed that an Indian contractor was being held hostage by the Taliban. Afghan soldiers and police attacked a Taliban camp co miles north of Lashkar Gah and killed at least 2 militants.
(AP, 4/30/06)(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, Bolivia's new left-leaning president, Evo Morales, signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on rejecting US-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation. Bolivia became the 3rd member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA).
(AP, 4/29/06)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.38)
2006 Apr 29, A cyclone hit Burma with 150 mph winds. Scattered deaths and injuries were reported.
(SSFC, 4/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 29, A coalition of Chinese Web activists launched a petition decrying censorship of the Internet and challenging the legality of government information controls on China's more than 100 million net users.
(Reuters, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, In northwestern China a gas explosion at a coal mine killed at least 30 miners and left eight missing at the Wayaobao Coal Mine in Shaanxi province.
(AP, 4/30/06)(AP, 5/1/06)
2006 Apr 29, It was reported that just over 8% of workers in France belonged to a trade union compared with 12% in America and nearly 30% in Britain.
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.54)
2006 Apr 29, In Hong Kong while riding a bus Elvis Ho asked Roger Chan to lower his voice while talking on his cellphone. Chan proceeded to berate Ho for nearly 6 minutes and the encounter was captured on video camera by another passenger, Jon Fong. The video became famous as “Bus Uncle." Some phrases in the video, such as “I’ve got pressure" and “It’s not over," quickly became part of Hong Kong’s lexicon.
(WSJ, 6/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 29, In central India 13 people abducted by insurgents were found dead but 37 others were freed. 2 people were found dead a day earlier. Rebels had abducted 52 people from a single village in the district of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh state on April 25.
(AFP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Iraq 6 people were killed in scattered violence. A top Iraqi official said sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes. A US Army soldier died when a roadside bomb hit his convoy near Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In Kyrgyzstan thousands of protesters demanding reform gathered in the main square in Bishkek but dispersed peacefully after President Bakiyev and PM Felix Kulov addressed the crowd.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Newly returned Nepalese legislators demanded that King Gyanendra be stripped of control over the 90,000-strong army, fearing he could use it to regain power after his recent concession to weeks of pro-democracy protests.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A car bombing in the Nigerian oil city of Warri destroyed at least five tanker trucks. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which demands more local control over the southern delta's oil wealth, said it had used a mobile phone to detonate 30 kg (66 lb) of dynamite in the bombing.
(Reuters, 4/30/06)
2006 Apr 29, North Korea claimed that the US conducted about 160 spy flights against the communist state this month.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Peru recalled its ambassador from Venezuela over what it called President Hugo Chavez's "persistent and flagrant interference" in its upcoming presidential elections.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, In the Philippines military intelligence agents captured Abdasil Malangka Dima, an alleged member of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, in Isabela, the capital of the southern island province of Basilan. He was allegedly involved in the abduction of three Americans, including a missionary couple, from a resort five years ago.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, A Qatar newspaper reported that Qatar has frozen bilateral free trade talks with the US, saying Washington was imposing preconditions that were not in Doha's interest.
(AP, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki to suspend enriching uranium and ensure full-scale cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, The UN said reports of a Ugandan army incursion into Congo were "credible" after peacekeepers conducted a verification mission in the remote northeastern border region.
(Reuters, 4/29/06)
2006 Apr 29, Scientists tried to discover why some 400 dolphins washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.
(AP, 4/29/06)(WSJ, 4/29/06, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames, leaving one of the nation's busiest spans in a state of near paralysis. Officials said traffic could be disrupted for months. Driver James Mosqueda (51) managed to away with 2nd degree burns.
(AP, 4/29/07)(SFC, 5/1/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 29, In Kansas City, Mo., David W. Logsdon, driving a dead woman’s car, was shot and killed by police after he killed 2 people in the parking lot of a mall.
(SFC, 4/30/07, p.A3)(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock, 29, was killed in the crash of his sport utility vehicle.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2007 Apr 29, Hundreds of angry protesters chanting "Death to Bush" demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan after six people, including a woman and a teenage girl, were reportedly killed when US-led coalition and Afghan forces raided a suspected car bomb cell. Afghanistan's education minister said at least 85 students and teachers were killed last year in attacks blamed on insurgents who oppose education for girls and teaching boys anything other than religion. In western Afghanistan coalition and Afghan forces attacked the insurgents and called in an airstrike, destroying seven Taliban positions and killing 87 fighters during a 14-hour engagement in Herat province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Octavio Frias de Oliveira (94), who published Brazil's biggest newspaper and Web site and helped modernize the country's media, died of kidney failure.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In China 7 suspects went on trial in the beating death of a reporter at an illegal coal mine in northern Shanxi province. Lan Chengzhang was attacked along with a colleague when they went to interview Hou Zhenrun, the owner of the small unlicensed coal mine outside the northern city of Datong on Jan 10. He died the next day from head injuries.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Colombia's navy made the largest drug seizure in the nation's history as it uncovered up to 27 tons of cocaine buried along the Pacific coast.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Ethiopia 7 Chinese oil workers and two Africans kidnapped during a rebel attack on a Chinese oil field near the Somali border were released.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, In Egypt police arrested two lawmakers and at least 10 other members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group as part of an ongoing campaign against the country's strongest opposition group.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, American troops also detained 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other bomb-making materials during raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in Anbar province. Britain said one of its soldiers was shot to death while on patrol in southern Iraq. In Basra 5 people were reported killed by an explosion. Iraqi police initially said it was a car bomb, but the British military said it appeared the blast accidentally occurred while explosives and weapons were being moved. A roadside bomb killed 3 American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter on a combat patrol in eastern Baghdad. A Marine was killed during combat operations in Anbar province.
(AP, 4/29/07)(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Japan and the resources-rich United Arab Emirates agreed to launch a high-level dialogue aimed at boosting economic ties and to speed up talks on a free trade pact. Officials of the governmental Japan Bank for International Cooperation decided to extend massive loans to Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. in exchange for securing a stable oil supply for Japan.
(AP, 4/29/07)(http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070430a2.html)
2007 Apr 29, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah held an unannounced meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the recent escalation in Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Saudi Arabia banned the sale of concentrated fertilizer, a favorite component of homemade terrorist bombs.
(AP, 4/30/07)(Econ, 5/5/07, p.60)
2007 Apr 29, Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a fuel refinery and gasoline storage facility near the Sri Lankan capital, and authorities cut power to the city. Hours later, the military pounded rebel positions in the north.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Protests took place around the world to demand that world leaders act to prevent further bloodshed in Darfur on the fourth anniversary of the conflict's start.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand killed two Buddhist villagers, beheading one of them, and left a note saying the attack was revenge for a deadly weekend bombing at a mosque.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2007 Apr 29, Some 700,000 Turks waving the red national flag flooded central Istanbul to demand the resignation of the government, saying the Islamic roots of Turkey's leaders threatened to destroy the country's modern foundations.
(AP, 4/29/07)
2007 Apr 29, President Hugo Chavez said that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America, part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil supply.
(AP, 4/30/07)
2008 Apr 29, Sen. Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, angrily repudiated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, for his recent remarks on race and US foreign policy.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, California’s Gov. Gov. Schwarzenegger said the state deficit could grow to as much as $20 billion.
(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 29, James Woodward (55) walked out of a Dallas court after DNA testing overturned his conviction over 27 years ago for the murder and rape of his girlfriend.
(Reuters, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, The videogame “Grand Theft Auto IV," produced by Take-Two Interactive Software, hit the stores with expectations of record sales. First week sales topped $50 million.
(WSJ, 4/29/08, p.B7)(WSJ, 5/8/08, p.B8)
2008 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a suicide bomb tore through a team preparing to eradicate opium poppy fields, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 40 others in eastern Nangarhar province. 12 police officers were among the dead.
(AFP, 4/29/08)(SFC, 4/30/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Australia's government promised to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A Chinese court jailed 30 people for terms ranging from three years to life for their roles in Tibet's deadly riots, which triggered anti-China protests across the globe ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, In China a newspaper reported that thousands of children in southwest China have been sold into slavery like "cabbages," to work as laborers in more prosperous areas such as the booming southern province of Guangdong.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Colombia police killed Victor Manuel Mejia in a raid at his ranch hideout. The government initially said it was his brother Miguel Angel. Both were wanted for extradition to the United States, with US$5 million rewards for their capture. In 2009 Miguel Angel Mejia was extradited to the US on drug trafficking charges.
(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 3/5/09, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Gastao Salsinha, the leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta, surrendered with 12 of his men, raising hopes that the troubled young nation can find some rare stability.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, European nations failed to convince Lithuania to allow the EU to launch talks on a new partnership pact with Russia.
(AFP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, EU nations signed a premembership trade-and-aid pact with Serbia to help pro-Western parties win elections. The deal would only be implemented if Belgrade fully cooperates with the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal.
(WSJ, 4/30/08, p.A11)
2008 Apr 29, A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong US objections to the project.
(AP, 4/30/08)
2008 Apr 29, In Iraq a roadside bomb hit Dhia Jodi Jaber, director general at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as he left his Baghdad home in his car. Militants killed the nephew of Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, and hanged the body from an electric pole in Baghdad. The attack was in apparent retaliation for the spokesman's role in a government crackdown against Shiite militias. US soldiers killed 28 militants during a four-hour firefight in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City. 2 US were killed soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad.
(AP, 4/29/08)(AP, 4/30/08)(SFC, 5/1/08, p.A2)
2008 Apr 29, Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico's Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country. President Felipe Calderon's office declined to say whether he would sign the popular measure into law.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused Mozambique police of killing and torturing people with impunity as the country struggles to deal with growing crime.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, The International Criminal Court in The Hague published an arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda (35), known as "the Terminator," a Congo militia leader wanted for allegedly using child soldiers.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Russia announced it was beefing up its peacekeeping force in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions, saying it had evidence Tbilisi was readying its forces for an attack.
(Reuters, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Workers returned to the Grangemouth refinery in central Scotland after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, An explosion in southwestern Somalia killed four Ethiopian troops and the subsequent gunfire killed two civilians.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, Albert Hofmann (102), the father of the mind-altering drug LSD, died in Switzerland. His medical discovery inspired, and arguably corrupted, millions in the 1960s hippie generation. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943. Hofmann used LSD for the last time when he was 97.
(AP, 4/30/08)(Econ, 5/31/08, p.21)
2008 Apr 29, In Taiwan the de facto US envoy assured incoming president Ma Ying-jeou that Washington will continue to back Taiwan militarily while it pushes for peace talks with China.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2008 Apr 29, A power outage left wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity, including much of the capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power lines in the central state of Guarico.
(AP, 4/29/08)
2009 Apr 29, The Obama administration joined a federal judge in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and using crack versus powdered cocaine.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, It was reported that more than 50 million American retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus package enacted in February.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Florida Juwhan Yun, a Korean American who had served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of nerve gas bombs to Iran, was indicted in Miami on charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket technology.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, In New York Teresa Tambunting of Scarsdale was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Prosecutors said she had stolen over $12 million in gold over six years from the Queens jewelry manufacturer where she worked. Police found 450 pounds of gold at her home.
(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A4)
2009 Apr 29, The WHO raised its alert for swine flu from level 4 to level 5, its 2nd highest alert level. Austria and Germany confirmed cases of swine flu, becoming the third and fourth European countries hit by the disease. US health officials reported that a 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the disease. The World Health Organization called an emergency meeting to consider its pandemic alert level.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A8)
2009 Apr 29, In Afghanistan US-led troops battled militants and announced they killed 42 suspected insurgents. Two attacks on German forces killed one soldier and wounded nine as Germany's foreign minister began a two-day visit to the country.
(AFP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Australia announced it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about 1,550 as part of the US-led surge of international forces to bolster the faltering fight against Taliban insurgents.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Two boats carrying almost 80 people were intercepted off Australia's northern coast as the conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry into refugee policy.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain’s PM Gordon Brown said it will boost its troops in Afghanistan to 9,000 to help the country through upcoming elections, unveiling a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Britain and Libya ratified a prisoner transfer deal that could potentially allow Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi (57), the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombings, to serve out the remainder of his sentence in the North African country.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, The prime ministers of China and Japan pledged to lay a stronger foundation for cooperation between the historic Asian rivals amid global economic and health crises.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, China Mobile said it would buy 12% of Far EasTone Telecommunications, a big Taiwanese mobile operator.
(Econ, 5/9/09, p.65)
2009 Apr 29, A Boeing 737 on a test flight from Brazzaville crashed southeast of Kinshasa, killing 7 people.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Cuba a statement published in state newspapers said that effective midnight, flights from Cuba to Mexico would be grounded due to swine flu. After that, airlines can fly presumably empty planes to the island and pickup Mexico travels. This amended a blanket 48-hour ban on flights between Mexico and Cuba announced a day earlier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been reported here yet.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, An Iraqi-US patrol was ambushed while distributing grants to Iraqi businesses near the northern city of Kirkuk. Iraqi officials said two civilians were killed when the Americans returned fire, but the US military said those killed were enemy fighters. Five bombs hit various neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing at least 48 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 4/30/09, p.A2)
2009 Apr 29, Youssef Magied al-Molqui, one of the 4 Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985, left prison in Palermo, Sicily, after more than 23 years in jail. Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif, another convicted Achille Lauro hijacker, was released last year.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, Lebanon released four generals held for nearly four years in the 2005 truck-bomb assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri after a UN-backed tribunal in the Netherlands ordered them freed, setting off celebrations with fireworks and dancing.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Mexican police arrested suspected Zeta gang leader Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, one of Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traffickers.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, NATO and Russia resumed formal contacts eight months after they were suspended because of last year's war with Georgia.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from the Buner district, within 60 miles (100 kilometers) of Islamabad. Troops faced an estimated 450-500 militants in Buner and forecast that the operation to drive them out would take about a week. Gun attacks in the mega-city of Karachi killed at least 34 people and threatened to ignite ethnic tension. 2 Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) activists were gunned down by unknown shooters, sparking street violence.
(AP, 4/29/09)(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 Apr 29, A South Korean presidential advisory committee announced that South Korea will lift a three-year ban on human stem cell research.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Sri Lanka the visiting French and British foreign ministers urged Sri Lanka to accept a cease-fire in its war with ethnic Tamil rebels, saying it needed to act quickly to save the lives of civilians in the war zone.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Taiwan said it had persuaded China to allow it to participate in a key UN body, offering a victory for President Ma Ying-jeou's campaign to win greater international recognition for the democratic island. China confirmed that Taiwan will attend next month's meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva as an observer.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, In Tanzania huge blasts rocked an ammunition dump at an army camp in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam. More than a dozen people were killed.
(AP, 4/29/09)(SFC, 2/18/11, p.A2)
2009 Apr 29, In southeastern Turkey suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a roadside bomb that killed nine soldiers in a US-made armored personnel carrier.
(AP, 4/29/09)
2009 Apr 29, Zimbabwe's teachers vowed to go on strike when the new school term begins next week after government reneged on a pledge to increase their salaries.
(AFP, 4/29/09)
2010 Apr 29, The US Navy said the first US women allowed to serve aboard submarines will be reporting for duty by 2012.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Alabama shrimpers filed a class-action lawsuit against oil giant BP Plc and owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, as claims for economic losses anticipated from the disaster began to mount.
(Reuters, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, ChronoZoom was first publicly announced and demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley during the 97th Annual Faculty Research Lecture series. On Apr 12, 2011, Professor Alvarez introduced ChronoZoom, a free interactive zoomable timeline for the history of everything being developed at UC Berkeley. By 2012 there were about 30 people working on the project at Microsoft Research, Moscow State Univ. and the Univ. of Calif.
(http://eps.berkeley.edu/~saekow/chronozoom/introductionvideo/index.html)(Econ, 6/2/12, TQ p.10)
2010 Apr 29, In Oakland, Ca., Parking director Noel Pinto issued a memo curtailing nighttime parking enforcement, effecting as of May 13. The recently begun practice had enraged local residents.
(SFC, 5/11/10, p.C3)
2010 Apr 29, Australia said it will force tobacco companies to strip all logos and color from their packaging, in a move aimed at driving people away from smoking.
(SFC, 4/30/10, p.A2)
2010 Apr 29, A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, NATO troops in Nangarhar province raided the home of a prominent Afghan lawmaker overnight, killing one of her relatives. In Laghman province a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near an Afghan army training facility, killing a soldier.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Belgium's lower house of parliament banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public, but the measure faced a challenge in the Senate which will delay early enactment of the law. There were two abstentions. No one voted against.
(AP, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, The president of the Central African Republic scrapped plans to hold polls May 16 after the elections commission told him it would be unable to organize them in time.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In eastern China a knife-wielding jobless man, Xu Yuyuan (47), attacked a kindergarten class of 4-year-olds, slashing 29 children and 3 teachers in what an expert said was a copycat rampage of two other episodes at Chinese schools in the past month. On May 15 Xu Yuyuan was sentenced to death. He appealed the death sentence, saying the punishment was too severe considering no one was killed.
(AP, 4/29/10)(AP, 5/15/10)
2010 Apr 29, Colombian authorities detained Congressman Luis Carlos Restrepo Orozco on allegations of receiving drug money.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Avigdor Arikha (b.1929), Holocaust surviving artist, died in Paris. He was perhaps the best painter from life in the last decades of the 20th century.
(Econ, 5/15/10, p.94)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Arikha)
2010 Apr 29, The prime ministers of India and Pakistan agreed to resume peace talks between their top diplomats and work toward rebuilding trust shattered by the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that New Delhi blamed on Pakistani militants.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Iraq's election commission said recounting all the ballots from the key Baghdad province will take around 2 to 3 weeks, further delaying the formation of a long awaited new government. 8 people were killed and 20 injured in car bomb outside a Baghdad liquor store. Iraq's banned Baath party, booted out of power in the 2003 US-led invasion, held its first public meeting in the Syrian capital.
(AP, 4/29/10)(AFP, 4/30/10)
2010 Apr 29, Mexican police said that a crowd of villagers in Guerrero state chased down a group of alleged kidnappers, freed their victims and shot 3 men to death. The men had apparently entered the hamlet of La Union, near the coastal resort of Zihuatanejo, and abducted a man and two boys. They allegedly also shot another man to death.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent the dissolution of her party under a controversial new election law.
(AFP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, Thailand's "Red Shirt" protesters called on the European Union to send observers to prevent a crackdown by the army, but the government warned others not to meddle in its internal affairs. Theo-establishment activists demanded military action against anti-government protesters and an end to "anarchy" in the capital.
(AFP, 4/29/10)(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Venezuela Father Esteban Woods (68), an American priest, was slain inside his apartment in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz.
(AP, 4/29/10)
2010 Apr 29, In Vietnam a Javan rhino, one of the world's rarest large mammals, was found shot dead with its horn chopped off in a southern national park, a suspected victim of poachers. There were only three to five Javan rhinos believed left in Vietnam. The animal was first caught on camera at the park in 1999.
(AP, 5/10/10)
2011 Apr 29, The US Federal Transit Administration determined that New Jersey must repay the federal government the entire $271 million it spent on early design and engineering work for a New Jersey - New York train tunnel that was scrapped by Gov. Chris Christie.
(SFC, 4/30/11, p.A6)
2011 Apr 29, Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine, was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges. Benjamin was captured by the Mexican military in 2002 in central Mexico.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, The state of Utah filed a lawsuit against the federal government over an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Australia a gunman killed three neighbors then shot a police officer in the face during a shootout and siege in the normally sleepy city of Adelaide.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, Brazil's population climbed to more than 190.7 million people in 2010, according to initial results of the decennial census released by the country's official institute of geography and statistics.
(AFP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In London Kate Middleton married Prince William in a union that promised to revitalize the British monarchy.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Northampton, England, university lecturer Jifeng Ding (46), his wife Helen Chui (47), and their daughters Xing (18) and Alice (12) were stabbed to death. Anxiang Du (53), a former business associate of the family who lived in Coventry, was named as the only suspect in the case shortly after the bodies were discovered. On July 7, 2012, a man believed to be Anxiang Du was arrested in Tangiers.
(AFP, 7/8/12)
2011 Apr 29, Cambodian and Thai troops broke a brief cease-fire and clashed for an eighth day, shattering hopes of a quick end to a long-running border conflict that has forced nearly 100,000 villagers to flee. The death toll rose to 16.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, An Egyptian soldier of the border guard unit was killed in an exchange of gunfire with tunnel smugglers near the border with Gaza.
(AFP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Egypt at least 20 people drowned in the Nile while on a trip to visit the grave of a relative. 5 people were also missing after a minibus hired for the traditional graveyard visit slipped from the ferry that carried it across the river in Beni Suef province.
(Reuters, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Germany 3 suspected members of the al-Qaida terror organization were arrested. The suspects had been under surveillance since April 15.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, In eastern India villagers protesting a noisy stone crushing plant burned to death its three owners and four employees in Orissa state's remote Bandaguda village.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Iraq attacks around the country killed six people, including the 8-year-old daughter of an imam who preached against violence and three brothers who fought al-Qaida. In southern Iraq an American soldier was killed while conducting military operations.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, In Japan senior nuclear advisor Toshiso Kosako resigned saying the government was not adequately protecting the public from radiation.
(SSFC, 5/1/11, p.A7)
2011 Apr 29, In Libya Moammar Gadhafi's forces holed up inside the airport in the key western city of Misrata have been shelling a civilian neighborhood around it. Rebels said at least two men died in the morning fighting. NATO warships intercepted several boats laying anti-shipping mines outside the harbor of Misrata. Forces loyal to Gaddafi fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town.
(AP, 4/29/11)(Reuters, 4/29/11)
2011 Apr 29, Mexican federal police discovered a basement arsenal hidden behind the mirrors of a home gym in Ciudad Juarez that included three anti-aircraft guns, dozens of grenades, a grenade launcher, AK-47s and other high-powered weapons.
(AP, 4/30/11)
2011 Apr 29, Philippines’s Pres. Benigno Aquino forced the resignation of ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, the state’s chief prosecutor of official corruption. She was accused of failing to prosecute cases of alleged corruption within the administration of former president Gloria Arroyo, who had appointed her.
(Econ, 5/7/11, p.46)
2011 Apr 29, Thousands of Syrians called for the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad and pledged support for the city of Deraa where tanks and troops have tried to crush resistance to his authoritarian rule. At least 65 people were killed with 36 of the deaths in the Daraa province, 27 in the central Homs region, one in Latakia and another in the Damascus countryside. Tamer Mohammed al-Sharei (15) disappeared in Daraa. Activists on June 9 released video of his dead body and said he was tortured by security forces.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 4/30/11)(SFC, 6/10/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 29, In Tunisia more than 800 prisoners escaped from prisons in Kasserine and Gafsa after fires were started in cells. Some 11,000 inmates have escaped since Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile in January.
(SFC, 4/30/11, p.A2)
2011 Apr 29, Ugandan army troops and police fired live bullets at rioting demonstrators, and at least two people were killed and 120 wounded in the largest anti-government protest in sub-Saharan Africa this year. Demonstrations over the last three weeks left eight people dead and wounded more than 250 others.
(AP, 4/29/11)(AP, 5/1/11)
2011 Apr 29, Yemeni activists said police in plainclothes opened fire at protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ouster in the western port city of Hodeida ahead of mass demonstrations nationwide.
(AP, 4/29/11)
2012 Apr 29, In NYC an out of control SUV flew off an elevated portion of the Bronx River Parkway, falling more than 50 feet before landing in a horrific crash that left seven people dead.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A5)
2012 Apr 29, Thomas Preston (83), Texas gambler also known as Amarillo Slim, died in Amarillo. His 1972 win in the fledgling World Series of Poker in Las Vegas helped make him an ambassador for the game.
(Econ, 5/12/12, p.98)(http://tinyurl.com/8xlfd8l)
2012 Apr 29, In eastern Afghanistan a buried bomb killed two children who triggered the explosive when they were playing outside near their village in Paktika province.
(AFP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, Algerian security forces killed 20 members of an al-Qaida splinter group who were allegedly about to attack two fuel tankers.
(AP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Austria the body of former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem (69), was found floating in the Danube river. Police said he died from drowning.
(AP, 4/30/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Bangladesh 9 small bombs exploded in Dhaka, after an opposition supporter was shot dead the previous evening in clashes ahead of a 4th nationwide strike in eight days.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, British police arrested James Allen (36), of Lothian Road, Middlesbrough, for the deaths of Colin Dunford (81) from Middlesbrough, and Julie Davison (50) from Whitby, North Yorkshire. Their bodies were discovered last week.
(AFP, 5/2/12)
2012 Apr 29, The CongoDRC military launched an offensive against Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by The Hague for alleged war crimes. On May 5 the army announced a five-day cease-fire to give army defectors a chance to return. Defections began early this month, with ex-CNDP members claiming that the government had failed to implement the provisions in the 2009 accord. On May 6 they formed a new group taking the name - March 23 - from the date of the 2009 peace accord signed by rebel groups and the Congolese government.
(AFP, 5/9/12)(AFP, 5/28/12)
2012 Apr 29, Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament decided to suspend sessions for a week in protest at the ruling military refusing to sack the government and name the Muslim Brotherhood's party to head a new one. One person was killed and 119 injured in clashes between Abu Ismail supporters and residents of the Abbassiya neighborhood in Cairo, where the defense ministry is located.
(AFP, 4/29/12)(AFP, 5/2/12)
2012 Apr 29, In India a head-on collision between two buses killed 20 passengers and injured at least 18 others in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Japan a bus carrying dozens of vacationers to Tokyo Disneyland has crashed on a highway, killing 7 passengers.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Kenya one person died and 15 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown at God's House of Miracles International Church in Nairobi during Sunday service. A church elder said his church may have been targeted by neighbors who claim to own the land on which it is built. On May 15 police charged Ibrahim Kibe Kagwa, a Kenyan, with six counts of causing grievous body harm during the grenade attack.
(AP, 4/29/12)(AP, 5/16/12)
2012 Apr 29, Libya's National Transitional Council decided that the interim government should stay in place, notably to ensure the success of June elections for a constituent assembly.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, Malaysian police freed all 471 people arrested a day earlier during a demonstration for free and fair elections, including senior opposition lawmaker Tian Chia.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, Myanmar state media said a series of attacks in the conflict-hit north have left at least four officials dead in Kachin state, in rare acknowledgement of ethnic unrest that has marred the regime's reformist image.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In northern Nigeria gunmen attacked church services on the Bayero University campus in Kano, using small explosives to draw out and gun down panicking worshippers in an assault that killed around 20 people. On May 18 police arrested Augustine Effiong (25), aka Abubakar Garba, a Boko Haram Islamist. He confessed to have participated in a series of attacks including the attack and killings in Bayero University Kano (BUK).
(AP, 4/29/12)(AFP, 4/30/12)(AFP, 5/21/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Pakistan the beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside in the southwestern city of Quetta. Khalil Rasjed Dale (60) was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work.
(Reuters, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Pakistan 3 militants were killed and two others wounded in a US drone attack in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. A remote-controlled car bomb in the Khyber tribal region killed two people and wounded five others.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In the Philippines clashes between army troops and communist guerrillas in two provinces left 10 people dead.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A2)
2012 Apr 29, In Spain tens of thousands of people protested against education and health care cuts as the country suffered its 2nd recession in three years.
(SFC, 4/30/12, p.A2)
2012 Apr 29, In Syria Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, head of the UN observer mission, arrived in Damascus to take charge of an advance team of 16 UN monitors. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government snipers shot dead two people in the Homs neighborhood of Joret al-Shayah. The group also said one civilian was killed and four wounded in random gunfire by security forces in the village of al-Saliha in the central Hama province.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In the northern United Arab Emirates security agents in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah detained Saleh al-Dhufairi, a rights activist, as part of an apparent widening crackdown on perceived opposition figures.
(AP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In southern Yemen Al-Qaeda freed 73 soldiers captured in battles on March 4, as three suspected militants were killed in an air strike in the north of the country.
(AFP, 4/29/12)
2012 Apr 29, In Zimbabwe Benias Gwenhamo Madhakasi, who works as a street vendor in South Africa, was arrested at the Beit Bridge border post on charges of insulting or undermining the authority of the president. He had cartoons on his cell phone that showed a bony-looking Robert Mugabe in the nude. On July 24 a magistrate tossed out the case.
(AFP, 7/25/12)
2013 Apr 29, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation allowing immigrant students to pay at the tuition rate other in-state students pay at state colleges. Colorado became the 14th state to allow such payments.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, NBA beteran basketball player Jason Collins (34) announced that he was gay, smashing through one of the final frontiers in US sports with a frank personal statement and winning warm praise as a groundbreaker.
(Reuters, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A California jury in Santa Ana convicted Catherine Kieu (50) of torture and aggravated mayhem. She was accused of drugging her husband (60) and then severing his penis and tossing it into the garbage disposal. She was jealous of his plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend. On June 28 she was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A4)(SFC, 6/29/13, p.A4)
2013 Apr 29, It was reported that 62 prisoners have died in California from 2006 through 2013 after coming down with a fungal infection called valley fever. The highes rates were reported at Pleasant Valley and Avenal prisons. The federal manager of health care in the state’s prisons ordered officials to transfer 3,300 inmates out of Pleasant Valley and Avenal.
(SFC, 4/29/13, p.C4)(SFC, 4/30/13, p.C1)
2013 Apr 29, SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight. A special jet climbed to 48,000 feet over the Mojave Deset, released the craft and pilots triggered the ship’s rocket engine.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A4)
2013 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, soon after takeoff, killing all seven people aboard.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, The Catholic Church in Brazil said it has excommunicated Father Roberto Francisco Daniel for defending homosexuality, open marriage and other practices counter to Church teaching in online videos.
(Reuters, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, Mohammed Saleem (82), a grandfather, was stabbed to death as he walked home from his mosque in the Small Heath area of Birmingham. On July 22 Pavlo Lapshyn (25), a Ukrainian in the UK on a sponsored work placement scheme, was charged with Saleem’s murder. On Oct 21 Lapshyn pleaded to stabbing Saleem and planting bombs near three British mosques. On Oct 25 Lapshyn was sentenced to 40 years.
(Reuters, 7/23/13)(http://tinyurl.com/llgflpp)(AFP, 10/25/13)
2013 Apr 29, Cameroon’s Supreme Court announced that the party of entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, In the Czech Rep. a powerful explosion badly damaged an office building in the center of Prague, injuring up to 40 people. Authorities believed people may still be buried in the rubble. Police later confirmed that the explosion was caused by a natural gas leak.
(AP, 4/29/13)(AP, 5/9/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Dubai court sentenced three British tourists to four years in prison on drug charges in a case that drew international scrutiny over claims of abuses in custody. Suneet Jeerh, Grant Cameron and Karl Williams, were arrested last July with what police said was the synthetic drug known as Spice.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, France’s Pres. Hollande announced a clutch of pro-business measures, such as cutting the capital gains tax he had raised just six months earlier.
(Econ, 5/4/13, p.67)
2013 Apr 29, France said it will effectively freeze its military spending for the next several years, cutting nearly 10% of defense jobs. A defense review white paper opted to keep air, ground and sea capabilities, while freezing defense budgets over 6 years and cutting 34,000 mioitary posts between 2014 and 2019.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A2)(Econ, 5/4/13, p.55)
2013 Apr 29, German federal prosecutors say they have charged three German-Iranian dual nationals and a German man with breaking export laws for allegedly supplying Iran with parts needed to build a nuclear reactor in violation of the country's trade embargo.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A cargo ship, the Pirireis, sank off southern Greece within minutes of colliding with another freighter in fair weather, leaving two Syrian seamen dead and 8 others missing. 7 sailors were rescued. It was not clear exactly why the Antigua- and Barbuda-flagged Consouth collided with the Cook Islands-flagged Pirireis.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In central and southern Iraq 5 car bombs struck in predominantly Shiite cities and districts, killing 36 people and wounding dozens in the latest wave of violence roiling the country.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, Ireland's Supreme Court ruled that a paralyzed Irish woman, who wants to die, cannot legally commit suicide with her partner's help. Judges said lawmakers could pass such a law to permit Marie Fleming (59) to die at a time of her choosing, but no such statute existed yet.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Kosovo court found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime in a trial against 7 people suspected of running an int’l. organ trafficking ring.
(SFC, 4/30/13, p.A2)
2013 Apr 29, A Kuwait appeals court said online activist Sager al-Hashash must serve a jail sentence for Twitter posts deemed offensive to the Gulf nation's ruler, but the prison term was reduced from two years to one.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In Mauritania a group calling for the rights of the Haratines was launched. The Haratins are oasis-dwellers in the Sahara, especially in southern Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara, who make up a socially and ethnically distinct group of largely settled, non-nomadic workers, with relatively dark complexions, speaking either Berber or Arabic.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2013 Apr 29, Mexico said all contact for US law enforcement will now go through "a single window," the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy. The new policy was a dramatic shift from the direct sharing of resources and intelligence between US and Mexican law enforcement under former President Felipe Calderon.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, A Nigerian military official said at least 17 people have been killed in fighting between Islamic extremists and security forces in Bama, Borno state.
(AP, 4/30/13)
2013 Apr 29, North Korea approved the withdrawal of most of the remaining South Korean personnel at a jointly run industrial park in the North, with a final seven set to stay behind to negotiate unpaid wages for North Korean workers.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, In northwestern Pakistan a suicide bomber targeting a police van killed at least 8 people in Peshawar, including the son and nephew of an Afghan official involved in peace negotiations with the Taliban.
(AP, 4/29/13)
2013 Apr 29, Syria’s PM Wael al-Halqi was unhurt in a bombing near his convoy in Damascus. At least 5 people were reported killed.
(AP, 4/29/13)(AP, 4/30/13)
2014 Apr 29, Washington's deadline for reaching a peace deal between Israel and Palestine expired today with the sides bitterly divided.
(AFP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, The US targeted companies from China and Dubai for allegedly helping Iran evade weapons and oil sanctions, a signal Washington will keep pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, US Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is determined to help Ukraine find and recover billions of dollars of assets it says were stolen by its former president and his aides. Holder spoke at the start of a two-day international meeting in London, jointly organized by Britain and the United States and attended by representatives from 35 countries, which is aimed at helping Ukraine's government recover money from President Viktor Yanukovich.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, A federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s voter ID law declaring that it imposes an unfair burden on poor and minority voters.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, Laws in Chicago and NYC went into effect subjecting electronic cigarettes to the same regulations as tobacco.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Donald Sterling (80), the owner of the LA Clippers, would be banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million for his recent racist comments. Additional punishment included barring Sterling from any NBA games or practices.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A1)
2014 Apr 29, In Georgia a FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest opened fire at a packaging sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A6)
2014 Apr 29, Oklahoma halted a double execution after Clayton Lockett (38) appeared to twitch and gag after being declared unconscious. Vein failure was cited. Locket, convicted of shooting a woman in 1999 and having buried her alive, soon died of a heart attack. The execution of Charles Warner (46) was stayed for 14 days. He had been convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl in 1997.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A9)
2014 Apr 29, US payment-card firm Visa said it would suspend network services to Russian banks SMP and InvestCapitalbank, which were sanctioned a day earlier by the US, in order to comply with US law.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Bahrain female activists Nafisa al-Asfoor and Rayhana al-Musawi were convicted, along with three male accomplices in connection with what authorities say was an attempt to bomb last year's Formula One race. No explosives were detonated at the 2013 race.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, CongoDRC officials said nearly 40,000 Congolese citizens have been deported over the last two weeks from neighboring Republic of Congo because they did not have immigration papers.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, An Egyptian court sentenced 29 people, described as Islamist supporters of ousted Pres. Morsi, to five years imprisonment on charges that included rioting.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, In Egypt Bassem Sabry (31), one of the country’s most respected bloggers who campaigned for civil rights and against repression, died. Security officials said Sabry accidently fell from a balcony under unclear circumstances.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Ethiopian police said they have arrested several people for "serious criminal activities." Rights groups said they were journalists and “Zone 9" bloggers detained in a sweeping crackdown against free speech. On Oct 16, 2015, Four of the bloggers and journalists were acquitted of terrorism after 18 months in jail. Journalist Befekadu Hailu, while being acquitted of terrorism charges, remained in custody on charges of inciting violence. Soleyana Gebremichael, in exile in the US, was acquitted of all charges in absentia.
(AFP, 4/29/14)(AFP, 10/16/15)
2014 Apr 29, The EU released the names of 15 new people it is targeting for sanctions because of their roles in the Ukraine crisis.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, Indian police and paramilitary officers said they have detained more than 600 Kashmiri residents over the last five days in a crackdown on suspected separatists ahead of voting in a general election.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Indonesia Rudi Rubiandin, the former head of energy regulator SKKMigas, was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a major graft scandal that reached the top levels of the oil ministry.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Iraq a pair of back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market in al-Saadiyah, 140km northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 42.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Mexico gunmen in homemade armored vehicles engaged in a day of running gunbattles that left 14 people dead in the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Moldova's PM Iurie Leanca said neighboring Romania will export gas to his country this year, reducing the former Soviet republic's dependence on Russia for gas.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, A Palestinian-built protest boat, Gaza's Ark, which was preparing to run Israel's naval blockade of the territory, was badly damaged in an explosion that organizers blamed on Israel.
(AFP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In the Philippines Muslim militants launched a surprise attack to regain control of a jungle training camp in a southern province. 25 Abu Sayyaf militants were killed and 24 wounded. One Philippine marine had died and 19 were wounded.
(AP, 5/1/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Russia 10 people died after a fire broke out at a military warehouse in the Siberian Baikal region.
(AP, 4/30/14)
2014 Apr 29, Turkey’s PM Tayyip Erdogan said he would ask the United States to extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of plotting to topple him and undermine Turkey with concocted graft accusations and secret wire taps. Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1997.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Syria two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of Damascus killed at least 14. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said it will send a team to Syria to investigate recent allegations about the use of chlorine gas in the war.
(AP, 4/29/14)(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A4)
2014 Apr 29, Thailand's state anti-corruption body indicted 36 senators for alleged misconduct in attempting to amend the constitution to make the Senate fully elected, which a court ruled was unconstitutional last year.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, In Ukraine demonstrators demanding more power for eastern regions stormed the regional administration building in Luhansk, one of the largest cities in the troubled east.
(AP, 4/29/14)
2014 Apr 29, The UAE convicted American drummer James Kottak of insulting Islam and being under the influence of alcohol while in transit at Dubai airport and sentenced him to one month in jail.
(SFC, 4/30/14, p.A2)
2014 Apr 29, Yemeni troops, backed by air force planes, launched a major offensive against al Qaeda strongholds in the south of the country to try to eradicate the Islamist militant group that had killed hundreds since 2011.
(Reuters, 4/29/14)
2015 Apr 29, US health officials said German measles, aka rubella, is officially gone from North and South America. It has been over five years that the last case originated in the Americas. Vaccines against the disease were first licensed in 1969.
(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A6)
2015 Apr 29, Russell Taylor, executive director of the Jared Foundation, was arrested at his home in Wayne Township, Indiana, after investigators found child pornography. The Jared Foundation to prevent childhood obesity was started in 2004 by Jared Fogle, spokesperson for sandwich chain Subway.
(http://tinyurl.com/pby9uyk)(SFC, 7/8/15, p.A14)
2015 Apr 29, Burundi took the controversial question of President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term bid to the constitutional court but opposition supporters dismissed the move and said demonstrations would go on.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, China's biggest lender by assets, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, said it has signed an infrastructure pact worth $2 billion with the oil-rich west African nation of Equatorial Guinea.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece agreed to step up cooperation on combatting terrorism amid fears that worsening security conditions in neighboring countries such as Libya could threaten the region.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, An Egyptian court jailed 69 Islamists for life for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013, as anger flared over a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A report in the Guardian newspaper said fourteen French soldiers are implicated in a probe into the alleged rape of children in the Central African Republic, in what could be a potentially devastating scandal for the army.
(AFP, 4/30/15)(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A2)
2015 Apr 29, An Indonesian firing squad executed 8 drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final, desperate pleas to save their nationals. Mary Jane Veloso from the Philippines was spared at the last minute as part of a deal between Jakarta and Manila to seek more information and go after drug syndicates operating in the region.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(SSFC, 5/3/15, p.A4)
2015 Apr 29, Iran’s Labor and Social Welfare Minister Ali Rabiei said that 200,000 wealthy Iranians — as well as Iranians living abroad — have been eliminated last week from the list of those getting handouts. Iran began handing out a monthly $15 in cash to all Iranians in 2010 as compensation for cuts in food and energy subsidies.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe sought support for a trans-Pacific trade pact that has divided US lawmakers as he made the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint meeting of Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would encompass 12 countries in Asia and the Americas and apply to 40% of the world’s economy.
(AP, 4/29/15)(Econ, 10/10/15, p.71)
2015 Apr 29, In northern Mali 2 soldiers and a civilian were killed when gunmen attacked the village of Goundam. In central Mali 10 militants and nine soldiers died in clashes between the army and the main Tuareg rebel alliance in Lere.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(AFP, 4/30/15)
2015 Apr 29, Mexico published a new rule requiring officials to declare potential conflicts of interest in their private life and financial dealings, a step that President Enrique Pena Nieto had promised after it came to light his wife bought a mansion from a government contractor.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Nepalese authorities said 5,016 people died and more than 10,000 were injured as a result of the massive earthquake that struck April 25. But officials have warned the death toll is expected to rise. India and China, have reported totals of 72 and 25 deaths from the quake, respectively.
(CNN, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, In Norway three football players received prison sentences for rigging matches in the country’s third division. The Oslo District Court convicted them of corruption and fraud for colluding with a Swedish gambler to fix two matches that their teams lost on June 24, 2012. The Swede, who made 340,000 kroner ($57,000) on the results, was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Polish authorities accused Russian journalist Leonid Sviridov of posing a threat to Poland's security, saying that he should lose his right to reside in Poland and the European Union.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A Russian supply capsule that went into an uncontrollable spin after launch was declared a total loss.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule, a major shift in power toward two princes who have overseen a more assertive stance at a time of almost unprecedented regional turmoil. Muhammad bin Nayef (55) was named the new crown prince.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)(Econ., 5/2/15, p.41)
2015 Apr 29, Syrian government air raids in Aleppo and its suburbs killed 11 civilians, including at least one child.
(AP, 4/30/15)
2015 Apr 29, Togo's main opposition coalition CAP 2015 rejected results of the West African nation's weekend presidential election after the election commission declared incumbent Faure Gnassingbe the winner.
(Reuters, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, A Turkish court acquitted 26 activists who helped launch mass protests in May-June 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights campaigners.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, The United Arab Emirates pulverized a mound of confiscated elephant tusks and ivory carvings to send a message against poaching and ivory trafficking.
(SFC, 4/30/15, p.A2)
2015 Apr 29, Pope Francis added his voice to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies advanced in the southern city of Aden, capturing parts of an upscale neighborhood and seizing men they accuse of fighting them from their homes.
(AP, 4/29/15)
2015 Apr 29, Zimbabwe shut down the country's second largest mobile phone service provider, Telecel Zimbabwe, partly for breaching black empowerment laws. International telecom firm VimpelCom, based in the Netherlands, has a 60 percent stake in Telecel Zimbabwe, making it the major shareholder.
(AFP, 4/29/15)
2016 Apr 29, US Vice President Joe Biden came to the Vatican to call for a global commitment to fund cancer research that benefits everyone, not just the "privileged and powerful."
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, The United States and Russia agreed on a "freeze" in fighting along two major fronts in Syria, but not in war-ravaged Aleppo as of midnight.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, US Customs and Border protection said seven tons of marijuana have been seized inside a truck at the Otay Mesa port of entry in San Diego.
(SSFC, 5/1/16, p.A7)
2016 Apr 29, In Michigan former Roman Catholic priest James Rapp (75) was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for sexually abusing students at Lumen Christi High School in Jackson in the 1980s. Rapp was in prison in Oklahoma for similar crimes when he was charged in Michigan last year.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, A former head of Brazil's forestry service said Brazil was still losing tropical forests the size of two soccer fields every minute, despite attempts to tackle illegal logging and improve local land rights.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In China a roadside activity center was crushed by stones from an overturned truck, leaving 14 people dead in the southern province of Guizhou. The accident was apparently caused by the failure of the truck's brakes.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Cuban officials said visiting British Foreign Secretary Anthony Hammond has reached an agreement on restructuring Cuban debt payments in a meeting with President Raul Castro.
(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, The European Union said it was giving an additional 38 million euros in cash aid to Haiti, which is combatting drought and a migration crisis with neighboring Dominican Republic.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, An expert panel told the Finnish government that Finland could expect "harsh" reactions from Russia if it decided to join NATO, but would be better off doing so together with neighboring Sweden.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, French riot police arrested 27 people during overnight clashes with dozens of youths in central Paris, following a day of protest marches over labor law reforms that turned violent.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said France will increase the number of its troops in Ivory Coast from 500 to 900, on a trip to the African nation which hosts a regional base for French forces.
(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Germany's federal and local governments reached agreement with public sector workers on a pay rise, settling a dispute that grounded hundreds of flights during a warning strike two days earlier.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Guyana four gunmen raided a hotel casino in Georgetown, leading to a shootout in which five people were wounded. One of the attackers was arrested.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Honduran officials fired more than two dozen top police officers in an aggressive move to purge security forces that have been accused of being infiltrated by organized crime.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Iranians voted in the country's parliamentary runoff elections for 68 seats where no candidate had won decisively in the first round. Reformist and moderate politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won twice as many seats as their conservative rivals in the second round of parliamentary elections.
(AP, 4/29/16)(AFP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta demanded a total ban on trade in ivory to end trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Kenya a six-story building in Nairobi collapsed late today following heavy rain. A woman was rescued on May 5 after being trapped for six days in the rubble. Over the next days the death toll rose to 49 people with dozens still missing.
(Reuters, 4/30/16)(AP, 5/5/16)(Reuters, 5/8/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Mauritania thousands of people marched for the rights of former slaves and to denounce injustice against them in the west African nation where slavery persists despite being officially abolished decades ago. Australia-based Walk Free Movement estimated in its 2014 Global Slavery Index that there were 156,000 slaves in Mauritania, or some four percent of the population.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, North Korea's Supreme Court sentenced Kim Dong Chul (62), a Korean American man, to 10 years hard labor for subversion.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Off western Norway a helicopter traveling from a North Sea oil field to Bergen, 120 km (74 miles) away on the Norwegian mainland, crashed into a tiny island killing all 13 aboard. In 2017 the country's Accident Investigation Board (AIBN) said metal fatigue in the aircraft's gearbox caused the crash.
(AP, 4/29/16)(Reuters, 4/28/17)
2016 Apr 29, In Pakistan the charred body of Ambreen Riasat (17) was found in a burned van in the tourist resort of Donga Gali. On May 5 police said they have arrested 13 members of a local tribal council who strangled a local girl and set her body on fire for helping one of her friends elope.
(AP, 5/5/16)
2016 Apr 29, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said security forces have killed two militants before they were able to detonate a car bomb in the southwestern town of Bisha.
(AP, 4/30/16)
2016 Apr 29, A South African court ruled President Jacob Zuma (74) should face 738 corruption charges that were dropped in 2009.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, South Sudan's leaders formed a transitional coalition government bringing together politicians from the government and the armed opposition who have been at war for two and a half years.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, In Sri Lanka hundreds of journalists and media rights activists protested to demand the new government start a fresh investigation into the abduction and killing of a prominent ethnic Tamil journalist 11 years ago, during the country's civil war.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo. Crude barrel bombs crashed into residential neighborhoods of Aleppo amid wailing ambulances. At least 17 people were killed in regime bombardment of the city's eastern districts. Rebel groups fired a barrage of rockets on government-controlled western neighborhoods. At least 15 people were killed when rockets struck the Malla Khan mosque in the government held Bab al-Faraj district.
(Reuters, 4/29/16)(AFP, 4/29/16)(SFC, 4/30/16, p.A3)
2016 Apr 29, Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fresh fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the east even as a new truce took effect.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, The UN Security Council voted to restore the UN mission in disputed Western Sahara but was divided over the steps demanded from Morocco to bring the peacekeeping force back to full operations.
(AFP, 4/29/16)
2016 Apr 29, Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets to call for an end to the fighting in the country's conflict.
(AP, 4/29/16)
2017 Apr 29, Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in Washington, DC, to voice concern over climate change in a mass demonstration dubbed the “Peoples Climate March" and also marking the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Multiple tornadoes ripped through Canton, a town in eastern Texas late today, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others. Authorities warned the number of casualties could rise.
(Reuters, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Texas Jordan Edwards (15), a black youth, was killed by police fire as he and other teenagers were driving away from a party in a Dallas suburb. Police Officer Roy Oliver (37), who fired into the car full of teens, turned himself in on May 5 after being charged with murder. He was released after posting a $300,000 bond. On August 28, 2018, Oliver was convicted of murder.
(SFC, 5/2/17, p.A5)(AFP, 5/6/17)(SFC, 8/29/18, p.A7)
2017 Apr 29, In Texas three people were killed when an air ambulance crashed in Amarillo.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A6)
2017 Apr 29, In Afghanistan US Marines returned to the volatile Helmand province, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban.
(AFP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Belarus police informed the wife of leading opposition figure Nikolai Statkevich that he had been arrested and jailed for five days. An unusually widespread wave of protests broke out in Belarus this year and another has been called for May 1 in the capital.
(AP, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Congo DRC three days of rioting began when protesters angered by a string of unsolved murders threw up roadblocks and mobbed government offices in the restive gold-rich Ituri region.
(AFP, 5/1/17)
2017 Apr 29, A Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board.
(AP, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, European Union leaders approved guidelines for their chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, setting priorities that the Union of 27 governments staying in the bloc wants to achieve in talks on Britain's withdrawal.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Germany a gold-and-platinum tiara adorned with 367 diamonds was discovered missing from the Badisches Landesmuesum in Karlsruhe. It was valued at $1.31 million and once belonged to Grand Duchess Hilda von Baden (1864-1952).
(AP, 5/8/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Indonesia torrential rain triggered flooding in the villages in the Central Java district of Magelang. Thirteen people died in flash floods that inundated five villages on Java island.
(AP, 5/2/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Iraq a US service member was killed by an explosive device outside Mosul.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A3)
2017 Apr 29, A North Korean mid-range ballistic missile apparently failed shortly after launch. The third test-fire flop just this month was a clear message of defiance as a U.S. supercarrier conducts drills in nearby waters.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Several hundred Russians lined up in central Moscow under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities. Police detained dozens of activists in Saint Petersburg.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)(AFP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, The South African president’s office said Jacob Zuma has signed the anti-money laundering bill FICA, which allows increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of "prominent individuals", including himself, into law.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Syria's military said its troops and allied fighters have repelled an attack by the Islamic State group on a government-held area south of Aleppo province. IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency claimed IS fighters killed 30 government soldiers in the attack on Um Mayal village east of Khanaser. Fighting between rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near Damascus entered a second day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of at least 38 fighters in the first 24 hours of fighting between rebel groups. It also reported civilian casualties.
(AP, 4/29/17)(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Syria air strikes killed eight White Helmet rescuers in the rebel-held area of Kfar Zeita.
(SSFC, 4/30/17, p.A3)
2017 Apr 29, Thai authorities arrested Prawet Prapanukul (57), an activist lawyer, and five other people. On May 3 they were charged with defaming the monarchy, pushing the tally of people charged with lese majeste to more than 100 since the military seized power in 2014.
(AP, 5/4/17)
2017 Apr 29, Turkey's military reportedly killed 14 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq.
(Reuters, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, Turkey Blocks, an internet censorship monitor, said users in Turkey have been unable to access all language editions of Wikipedia since 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) today. Access to Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey for content presenting the country as supporting terror.
(AP, 4/29/17)
2017 Apr 29, In Turkey the head of an Iranian satellite television network was shot dead in Istanbul together with a business partner. GEM TV founder Saeed Karimian was sentenced last year in absentia to six years in prison by a Tehran court. Karimian and an associate were driving in Istanbul's Maslak neighborhood after 8 p.m. (1.00 p.m. ET) when their car was blocked by a jeep and shots were fired.
(Reuters, 4/30/17)
2017 Apr 29, The United Nations called for a halt to fighting in South Sudan after the government launched a new offensive earlier this week.
(AFP, 4/29/17)
2018 Apr 29, US border authorities said some people associated with a caravan of asylum seekers from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador were caught trying to slip through the border fence in Tijuana, and encouraged the rest to hand themselves in to authorities. About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek US asylum but were not allowed to cross the Mexico border because officials said the facility was full.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)(Reuters, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, Sprint and T-Mobile announced that they had reached a deal to merge. Deutsche Telekom would own roughly 43 percent of the combined businesses.
(SFC, 4/30/18, p.A7)
2018 Apr 29, In eastern Afghanistan a group of children set off an unexploded mortar round in a residential area, causing a blast that killed a woman and two children in Nangarhar province.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Albania Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (71) celebrated mass in Tirana, the highlight of his first visit to the mainly Muslim country.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Armenia supporters of protest leader Nikol Pashinyan rallied in Yerevan, hoping that a massive show of force two days ahead of a key election will help propel the opposition leader to power.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Australia pledged half a billion dollars to restore and protect the Great Barrier Reef in what it said would be a game-changer for the embattled natural wonder, but conservationists were not convinced.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Austria's OMV signed a deal worth $1.5 billion for a 20 percent stake in two offshore concessions in the United Arab Emirates' capital, Abu Dhabi.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Bangladesh Rohingya refugees made emotional pleas to the UN Security Council for help to return safely to their homes in neighboring Myanmar and for justice over the reason they fled - accusations of killings, rapes and arson.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Luis Garcia Meza Tejada (b.1929), former Bolivian dictator (1980-1981) died at a military hospital in La Paz, where he was serving the remainder of a 30-year prison term.
(SFC, 5/4/18, p.D6)
2018 Apr 29, In India bridegroom Sunil Verma (25) was hit in the chest late today as he performed Hindu wedding rituals. Indian police on May 1 arrested a man accused of killing Verma when he marked his friend's wedding with gunfire.
(AFP, 5/1/18)
2018 Apr 29, At least 15 African migrants died when their boat, which had departed from Morocco, capsized off the Algerian coast while trying to reach Europe.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Iraq sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group. Six women from Azerbaijan and four from Tajikistan were also condemned to life in prison on the same charge.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Kuwait said it stands ready to cooperate with the Philippines to address labor issues facing Filipino workers, but would also "act decisively" against attempts to breach its sovereignty.
(AP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, A Libyan transport plane crashed at an airfield at El Sharara oilfield, killing three people.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, A Myanmar police spokesman said the police officer who testified that police framed two Reuters reporters has been sentenced to an undisclosed prison term for violating Myanmar's Police Disciplinary Act. Captain Moe Yan Naing had told the court on April 20 that a senior officer had ordered police to "trap" one of the two journalists arrested in December. During that hearing, Moe Yan Naing told the court he had been under arrest since the night of Dec. 12, the date the Reuters reporters were arrested.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider began a hunger strike to bring attention to the killing of Shiites in the city of Quetta. She planned to continue the strike until the army chief visits the city and details concrete steps to bring the killers to justice and protect the religious minority.
(AP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Saudi national oil giant Aramco said that five new members had been appointed to its board of directors, including the first woman in the firm's history. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans (60) is the former head of US oil company Sunoco Inc. and has been director of oil services company Baker Hughes since July last year.
(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Syrian government forces captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after rare clashes with US-backed Kurdish-led fighters. Six SDF fighters were reported killed. Syrian troops tightened the noose around a major Palestinian refugee camp held by Islamic State militants in southern Damascus where hundreds of civilians face an uncertain future. State media said the government and rebels have reached a deal to evacuate opposition fighters from an area of southern Damascus near the site of a regime offensive against jihadists.
(AP, 4/29/18)(Reuters, 4/29/18)(AFP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In central Syria missile strikes late today killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran's archfoe Israel. The missile strikes hit two military targets in Aleppo and Hama provinces.
(AFP, 4/30/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Thailand over a thousand people gathered in the northern city of Chiang Mai to protest against the building of a government luxury housing project on forested land, in one of the largest demonstrations under military rule.
(Reuters, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, In Tunisia police and military personnel voted in the country's local elections for the first time.
(AP, 4/29/18)
2018 Apr 29, Zimbabwe held primary elections. The voting was extended to May 1 in some constituencies due to disagreements over who should vote, late ballot deliveries and accusations of bribery and cheating by some candidates. Seven government ministers and several allies of President Emmerson Mnangagwa were defeated in the primary elections for parliament.
(Reuters, 5/3/18)
2019 Apr 29, President Donald Trump proposed charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the US.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Stanford biochemist Ron Davis published a description of a biomarker that could be developed as the first simple blood test for chronic disease syndrome.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A1)
2019 Apr 29, John Singleton (51), director of "Boyz N the Hood" (1991) died in Los Angeles after being taken off of life support following a major stroke.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singleton)(SFC, 4/30/19, p.C3)
2019 Apr 29, In Hawaii a helicopter crash in suburban Honolulu killed three people.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A5)
2019 Apr 29, A US federal judge in Oregon blocked a Trump administration attempt to prevent federally funded health care providers from referring pregnant women to abortion clinics.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A5)
2019 Apr 29, Linda Garcia of Vancouver, Washington, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. She rallied local communities to successfully prevent the construction of North America's largest oil terminal.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Nearly 30 hospitals in West Virginia and 10 affiliates in Kentucky signed on to a suit against some of the country's largest opioid companies, saying they flooded Appalachia with powerful painkillers and forced medical centers to deal with the financial repercussions.
(SFC, 5/1/19, p.A6)
2019 Apr 29, Afghanistan's Pres. Ashraf Ghani opened a grand council of more than 3,200 Afghans seeking to agree on a common approach to peace talks with the Taliban. Government forces launched attacks late today in a bid to clear rival militants who have been battling each other for territory in Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border in fighting that has forced thousands of villagers from their homes.
(AP, 4/29/19)(Reuters, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Bangladesh security forces killed at least two people suspected of belonging to an Islamist militant group behind a deadly cafe attack in Dhaka in July 2016.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Human Rights Watch said that Bolivia has undermined judicial independence by arbitrarily dismissing nearly 100 judges since 2017 and it asked the Organization of American States to address the issue.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Imperial College in London opened the world's first Center for Psychedelic Research.
(https://tinyurl.com/yyugw2jd)(Econ, 6/8/19, p.56)
2019 Apr 29, Alberto Curamil of Chile was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. The jailed indigenous activist had protested several hydroelectric projects in the country. His efforts were credited with halting two projects and protecting a critical ecosystem surrounding the Cautin River.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Congo's health ministry confirmed 27 cases of Ebola today, the highest number since the outbreak was declared in August.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Jacqueline Evans of the Cook Islands was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Her work led to the conservation and sustainable management of all 763,000 square miles (1.98 million square km) of the Cook Islands' ocean territory and creation of 15 marine protected areas.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Thousands of Czechs rallied in Prague and elsewhere to protest the proposed replacement of the justice minister.
(SFC, 4/30/19, p.A2)
2019 Apr 29, A strike among pilots at Scandinavian Airlines, flag carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, entered its fourth day.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, An Ethiopian official revealed his country has finalized preparations to extradite a double-murder suspect to the US. Yohannes Nesibu (25), an Ethiopia-born US national, is accused of killing two other people, who were also Ethiopia-born individuals, in Virginia in 2016.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Ethiopia dozens of civilians were dead in ethnic clashes in northern Amhara state. The attacks appeared to be retribution for the killing of at least 21 people in separate clashes last weekend between the Gumuz and Amhara ethnic groups in Benishangul Gumuz state.
(AFP, 5/3/19)
2019 Apr 29, The European Union said it is prolonging by a year an embargo on any arms that could be used in security crackdowns in Myanmar as well as sanctions against 14 top military and border officials.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, The French government opened a suicide prevention unit for police officers after a sharp rise in the number taking their own lives since the start of this year.
(AFP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In France diplomats from 130 nations gathered in Paris to validate a grim UN assessment of the state of Nature and lay the groundwork for a rescue plan for life on Earth.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, French authorities seized half a ton of cocaine worth around 40 million euros ($44.9 million) in the northern port of Dunkirk in a container ship carrying bananas that had traveled from the small South American nation of Suriname.
(Reuters, 5/14/19)
2019 Apr 29, The fourth phase of India's staggered national election was marred by multiple clashes that injured at least seven people and led to security forces firing warning shots outside one polling station.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Indonesia's disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing in Sumatra island's Bengkulu province following floods sparked by torrential rains.
(AFP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared in a video. He was the latest in a series of most-wanted figures to use the medium to communicate with the outside world.
(AP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, Alfred Brownell was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for exposing alleged abuse by palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia and helping to prevent it from converting about 20 square miles (about 50 square km) of forest that is home to elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses and chimpanzees. He was forced to flee Liberia in 2016 after the government threatened to arrest him for his activism.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Libya forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter intensified their airstrikes on Tripoli, where heavy fighting and blocked roads have left civilians trapped in their homes.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Bayarjargal Agvaantseren of Mongolia was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. She led the fight to create the 2,800 square miles (7,300 square km) Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Mozambique rains grounded aid flights for a second day, hampering efforts to reach survivors of Cyclone Kenneth as the death toll there jumped to 38.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Cambodia for an official visit to strengthen ties between the countries.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Nigeria jihadists, packed into four trucks and flanked by gunmen on motorbikes, swept into Kuda in Adamawa state late today, shooting down villagers as they ran away killing at least 21 people. Nine more bodies were soon found, taking the total massacred to 30.
(AFP, 5/1/19)
2019 Apr 29, Ana Colovic Lesoska of North Macedonia was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize. Her seven-year campaign helped stop hydroelectric projects from being built in the country's largest national park and home to the endangered Balkan lynx.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, A Pakistani military spokesman said Pakistan plans to take control of a network of over 30,000 madrasas as part of a drive to "mainstream" the Islamic schools by bringing them under state control.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In the Philippines a fire raged through the top floors of a 21-story residential building in Manila in the middle of a scorching summer, killing an elderly woman and injuring five other people.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Somalia a victim relative said an air strike near the town of Afgoye killed four people. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said it carried out an air strike and that three militants had died in the attack.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Authorities in Sri Lanka banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Sudan six security personnel were killed in clashes with protesters across the country.
(AFP, 4/30/19)
2019 Apr 29, In northern Syria a US service member died in a non-combat incident.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Tunisia about 5,000 people protested in central Sidi Bouzid city against marginalization and deteriorating conditions, two days after the deaths of 12 female rural workers in a traffic accident.
(Reuters, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, In Turkey police in Ankara detained 17 Iraqis and five Syrians, suspected of links to the Islamic State group, in simultaneous raids as part of a security sweep ahead of Labor Day festivities.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2019 Apr 29, Ugandan pop star and opposition politician known as Bobi Wine was remanded to jail after being charged over his role in a street protest last year against a tax on social media.
(AP, 4/29/19)
2020 Apr 29, California to date had 48,565 cases of coronavirus and 1,939 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 7,965 cases and 281 deaths. The US coronavirus death toll reached 61,000.
(sfist.com, 4/29/20)(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, A federal appeals court panel ruled that Kansas cannot require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states who have pursued restrictive voting laws as a way of combating voter fraud.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Kentucky an Amish family riding a horse and buggy was swept away when their buggy overturned while trying cross a low water bridge in Bath County. One adult survived, four children died and one child was missing. Search crews recovered the last child on May 2.
(https://tinyurl.com/ycmvkvgs)(SFC, 5/4/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) unveiled a plan to provide tuition-free college or technical certification for essential workers who are serving during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, In New York the aging Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Indian Point Energy Center along the Huson River was closed down. Unit 3 wasscheduled to close in april 2021.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that hospital admissions for the coronavirus in New York state remained at about 1,000 a day. Thousands of out of state nurses have come to help NY hospitals.
(SFC, 4/29/20, p.A5)
2020 Apr 29, In NYC police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood after a funeral home overwhelmed by the coronavirus resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks, and a passerby complained about the smell. Investigators found that the home had rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Pfizer said it aims to make 10-20 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine it is developing with Germany's BioNtech by the end of 2020 for emergency use depending on trial results.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Gilead Sciences announced that the company was “aware of positive data" from a federal study of its experimental coronavirus drug, remdesivir.
(NY Times, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that BP is donating 3 million gallons of jet fuel to FedEx and Alaska Airlines to help with the distribution of personal protective equipment in the battle against the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said massive fiscal stimulus measures adopted by governments around the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic must be tailored to tackle climate change at the same time.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted an Afghan special forces base on the outskirts of Kabul killing at least three civilians and wounding 15.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Austria and Switzerland pledged to help Lufthansa with state-backed loans as the German airline pursues talks with Berlin over a 9 billion euro ($9.8 billion) rescue package.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Bosnia reported its sharpest daily rise in coronavirus infections this month after its two autonomous regions had gradually begun to ease lockdowns. There were 93 new infections and two deaths in the previous 24 hours, compared with 20 new infections a day earlier and 49 the day before that.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Canadian hospitals had beds to spare as the country hit 50,373 confirmed coronavirus cases. Several provinces were relaxing public health measures. The virus has killed 2,904 in total and health experts worried about a future wave of infections.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, A Canadian military helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece The military helicopter was taking part in a NATO operation and crashed into the sea between Greece and Italy. Debris from the crash and one body were located, leaving the five others aboard the aircraft missing. On May 2 NATO search and rescue efforts turned to search and recovery as the five missing were presumed dead.
(AP, 4/30/20)(Reuters, 4/30/20)(SSFC, 5/3/20, p.A3)
2020 Apr 29, Czech environment Minister Richard Brabec said the Czech Republic is facing its worst drought in 500 years and some communities could see their supplies run dry.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, The European Commission approved a 5 billion euro ($5.4 billion) loan guarantee to carmaker Renault group to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, India has recorded its 1,000th novel coronavirus death, but the head of a government think-tank said that its 1.3 billion people, strained from weeks of lockdown, were not experiencing the feared exponential surge in infections. India has now reported 31,331 cases, including 1,007 deaths.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Indian artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region hit Pakistani army posts and villages killing a soldier, a woman and a girl (16). India said Pakistani troops had attacked Inidan positions with small arms and mortar shells in at least four places.
(SFC, 5/1/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Indonesia confirmed 260 new infections, taking its total to 9,771, while deaths rose by 11 to 784.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Iran's health ministry announced that 80 new deaths from the novel coronavirus had taken the country's overall toll to 5,957. Another 1,073 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours. 93,657 people have contracted the illness since mid-February. The government has allowed many businesses to reopen since April 11 after shutting most down in mid-March to stem the spread of the disease.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, A Kenyan court refused to lift a ban on a locally-made acclaimed film portraying a lesbian romance. The film's producer said that she would continue to fight for freedom of expression in the East African nation. The film "Rafiki" - which means friend in Kiswahili - was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) in April 2018 on the grounds that it promotes homosexuality in a country where gay sex is a criminal offence.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Lebanese cities were rocked by a third night of unrest as small crowds took to the streets to protest a deepening economic crisis.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Libya's eastern-based forces said they will cease fire for Ramadan, after they suffered setbacks during weeks of intense fighting against the internationally recognized government.
(The Telegraph, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Researchers described an exquisitely preserved fossil of the plant-eating mammal named Adalatherium hui, which lived in Madagascar 66 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and superficially resembled a badger with its long torso and stubby tail.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Malawi has recorded 36 cases of coronavirus confirmed. Of those, three people are recorded to have died. President Peter Mutharika announced an emergency cash transfer program for the poorest people in what is one of the world's poorest countries.
(BBC, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Mexican Congresswoman Anel Bueno (38), a lawmaker from the western state of Colima, was snatched in Ixtlahuacán. Her body was found in June in a shallow grave following her abduction by armed men and one suspect was reported detained over the killing.
(The Guardian, 6/3/20)
2020 Apr 29, A UN human rights expert said that Myanmar might be committing more war crimes against its ethnic minority populations.
(The Week, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, It was reported that Niger has been struck by a new outbreak of polio, following the suspension of immunization activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Africa, 14 other countries struggled to contain their polio epidemics, which have also been caused by a rare mutation of the virus in the oral vaccine.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Pakistan said it is preparing to loosen coronavirus lockdown restrictions as the number of infections and deaths are well below previous projections. Pakistan has registered 15,289 cases of COVID-19 including 335 deaths.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A4)
2020 Apr 29, The Philippines' tally of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to more than 8,000.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Russia reported 972 deaths in total for the coronavirus. A Remembrance List showed 74 medical staff who had died from the virus, this included 4 from Belarus. Confirmed cases neared 100,000 after 5,841 new cases were registered overnight along with a record daily rise in the death toll.
(AFP, 4/29/20)(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Serbia has reported 8,497 confirmed cases and 1,678 deaths from COVID-19. Citizens, stuck at home under curfew, vented their anger in a cacophony of tin pans, drums, whistles, and horns at the government and its tough containment measures to curb the new coronavirus.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Rioting broke out at the central prison in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown following confirmation of a coronavirus case there.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, South Africa has reported most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa, with more than 4,360, including 86 deaths. Disabled migrants faced hunger as a lockdown continued for a fifth week.
(AP, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg (87), who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, died at his hoke near Cape Town.
(BBC, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, In South Korea a fire at the construction site of a 4-story warehouse in Icheon killed 38 people.
(SFC, 4/30/20, p.A2)
2020 Apr 29, Spain recorded 325 deaths overnight, against 301 the previous day. Health officials said the coronavirus epidemic was evolving favorably ahead of a gradual easing of its lockdown next week.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, In Sweden the total confirmed coronavirus cases topped 20,000.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Tanzania reported 509 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths. At this point the government stopped releasing data. The US embassy in Tanzania later warned that there is a risk of "exponential growth" of Covid-19 cases in the country.
(BBC, 5/13/20)
2020 Apr 29, The UN said more than 40 cases of COVID-19 and at least three deaths have been reported in Syria.
(AP, 4/30/20)
2020 Apr 29, Authorities in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden announced a three-day, 24-hour curfew starting at midnight local time, after five confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection were announced.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)
2020 Apr 29, Authorities in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden announced a three-day, 24-hour curfew starting at midnight local time, after five confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection were announced. Yemen recorded its first two coronavirus deaths. The deaths come after aid organizations warned any coronavirus outbreak could have dire consequences after six years of civil war.
(Reuters, 4/29/20)(AFP, 4/30/20)
2021 Apr 29, The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a $35 billion measure to clean up the nation’s water systems, offering a brief moment of bipartisan cooperation amid deep divisions between the two parties over President Biden’s much larger ambitions for a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure package.
(NY Times, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, US prosecutors said that German software giant SAP will pay more than $8 million in penalties in acknowledging that it illegally exported its products to Iran.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The US Supreme Court bolstered the efforts of some long-term immigrants to avoid deportation in a ruling that faulted the federal government for improperly notifying a man who came to the United States illegally from Guatemala to appear for a removal hearing.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Federal agents in Arkansas arrested former reality TV personality Josh Duggar. Josh is eldest child in the Duggar family, which was featured on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting" until the show was canceled after he admitted to sexually abusing underage girls. The following day he was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. Duggar pleaded not guilty to both charges.
(NY Daily News, 4/30/21)(NBC News, 5/1/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Los Angeles Police Department said five suspects have been arrested in the February shooting attack and robbery of a man who was walking Lady Gaga's dogs.
(CBS News, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, California to date had 3,713,791 cases of coronavirus and 61,240 deaths. The SF Bay Area had 435,320 cases and 6,248 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 32,282,063 with the death toll at 575,052.
(sfist.com, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Republicans in the Florida Legislature passed an election overhaul bill that is set to usher in a host of voting restrictions in one of the most critical battleground states in the country, adding to the national push by G.O.P. state lawmakers to reduce voting access.
(NY Times, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, In New York the Indian Point Energy Center permanently stopped producing nuclear power. The plant, 25 miles north of NYC, has been called a threat to millions living in the region.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, Brazil became the 2nd country to top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths. Brazil announced another 3,001, bringing that total to 401,186.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A6)
2021 Apr 29, Rebels seeking to overthrow Chad's new transitional government claimed to have shot down a military helicopter. The junta in power warned political opponents not to renew protests after violent demonstrations earlier in the week left at least six people dead.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Chinese financial watchdogs summoned 13 internet platforms engaged in finance business, including heavyweights Tencent and ByteDance, to order them to strengthen compliance with regulations.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, China launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long term. The Tianhe, or “Heavenly Harmony," module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan. The first stage of the rocket went into orbit and was expected to fall back to Earth on May 8 at an unknow location.
(AP, 4/29/21)(USA Today, 5/6/21)
2021 Apr 29, The upper house of Czech Parliament approved changes in the electoral law requested by the country’s highest court that ruled the previous legislation discriminated against small political parties. The lower house had approved the changes earlier in April.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Czech drugs regulator said it lacked the documentation needed to fully assess Russia's COVID-19 vaccine for possible use, drawing a rebuke from Moscow amid a separate, heated dispute over spying allegations.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Greek Ombudsman called on the government to respond to detailed allegations of so-called pushbacks that deny migrants their right to apply for international protection. Greek authorities have repeatedly denied claims that security forces are involved in summary deportations.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, India's health ministry reported 379,257 new coronavirus infections, the latest in a series of global single-day records set during the country's devastating second wave of COVID-19. India also confirmed another 3,645 COVID-19 deaths, the most it has seen in a single day since the pandemic started.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Italy hit its target of administering 500,000 COVID-19 vaccinations in a single day.
(Reuters, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria announced they will extend a partial lockdown for another week amid a surge in coronavirus cases. An international aid group warned of oxygen shortages in the neglected region of the war-ravaged country.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded blame for cross-border shelling and clashes that left at least one person dead.
(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, It was reported that Lithuanian artist Erikas Malisauskas has raised over $6,000 for LGBT groups by selling a digital collage of homophobic messages that were sent to a member of parliament who champions gay rights causes.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The Dutch privacy watchdog said it has fined the eastern city of Enschede for tracking people using mobile phone Wi-Fi signals in a system used to measure crowds. The city's municipality said it is appealing the ruling and 600,000-euro ($730,000) fine.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Pakistan said it has purchased 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from three Chinese companies. Total deaths crossed 17,680 with over 150 deaths today and 5,480 coronavirus cases adding to a total of 815,711.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Russian developers of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 said that they were suing Brazilian regulator Anvisa for defamation, accusing it of having knowingly spread false information without testing their product.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that 16 suspects from a Ukrainian far-right neo-Nazi group known as “Maniacs. Cult of Killers" (M.K.U.) were arrested in connection with a plot to carry out violent attacks in nine of the country’s southern and northern cities.
(The Daily Beast, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, A Moscow judge upheld the defamation conviction against opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
(The Week, 4/30/21)
2021 Apr 29, The UN Security Council held an informal meeting focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries from Libya.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, The UN World Food Program (WFP) warned that persistent drought in southern Madagascar has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine and stoked acute malnutrition among children.
(AP, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, Pope Francis set a $48 gift cap for all Vatican employees and issued tough new anti-corruption regulations that require Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically declare they are investing only in funds consistent with Catholic doctrine and aren't under criminal investigation or stashing money in tax havens.
(AP, 4/29/21)(SFC, 4/30/21, p.A4)
2021 Apr 29, Vietnam said it had detected its first locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus in 35 days, as authorities ordered tighter surveillance to prevent a new outbreak.
(Reuters, 4/29/21)
2021 Apr 29, In Yemen a land mine explosion near the strategic port city of Hodeida killed three children and wounded another three and their mother.
(AP, 4/30/21)
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