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[Magoo]

4/29

 

1945 Dachau concentration camp was liberated.

1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun married.

1945 The German army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

2004 National World War 2 Memorial opens in Washington D.C.

1862 Union Army captures New Orleans during the American Civil War.

1986 Roger Clemens becomes the only person in baseball to strike out 20 players in a 9 inning game. He did it again 10 years later.

2011 Prince William and Kate Middleton marry.

1991 A cyclone kills 135,000 in Bangladesh.

1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orleans.

1992 Rodney King trial verdict announced. Rioting in L.A. follows.

1946 Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1990 The destruction of the Berlin Wall begins.

[Sithon]

Golden Gate Bridge opens- May 27, 1937

[Fermion]

Why is this thread pinned xD

[Myrrdin Emrys]

Because its fun:

 

• Elizabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in a hot air baloon untethered. Flight lasts 45 minutes, covers 4 km and reaches 1500 estimated meters altitude.
• Following Louisiana Territory's  admittance as a U.S State, its renamed to Missouri Territory.
• 1919 is a historic day for women rights. Suffrage granted to women by the passing of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• World War II: Rome falls to the allies. First ever Axis capital to fall.
• Gyanendra, King of Nepal, succeeds to the throne after the brutal royal massacre.

Good enough?