04-28-2011, 07:03 PM
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April 29th
1893 ~ Birthday of Harold Urey, American chemist, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1945 ~ Start of Operation Manna.
1945 ~ American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
1951 ~ Death of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher.
1958 ~ The Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, opened in London.
1980 ~ Death of Alfred Hitchcock, director.
1992 ~ Rioting broke out in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King.
1997 ~ The Chemical Weapons Convention, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons, went into effect.
1936 ~ Death of John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist.
2008 ~ Death of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who first synthesized LSD.
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