{"id":20476,"date":"2020-04-29T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T03:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2020-04-29T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:44:57","slug":"history-of-29-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-29-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 29 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>History of 29 April<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township,\u00a0NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris which granted Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in\u00a0Maryland. Colby&#8217;s body was later recovered.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; 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 was dishonorably discharged.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first\u00a0U.S.-Russian space walk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S., Canada and Mexico end tariffs on $1 billion in NAFTA trade.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Brazil announced a plan to protect a large area of Amazon forest. The area was about the size of Colorado.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Kelsey Grammer and his production company, Grammnet Inc., were ordered to pay more than $2 million in unpaid commissions to his former talent agency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; NATO expelled two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry criticized the expulsions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015<\/strong> &#8211; The White Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 at Camden Yards. The game was played without a crowd present due to the ongoing riots and protests in Baltimore. This was the first time a Major League Baseball game was played in front of an empty house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lisa Allen, English chef<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00c9milie Mondor, Canadian runner (d. 2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jay Cutler, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tommie Harris, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David Lee, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kirby Cote, Canadian swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Paulius Jank\u016bnas, Lithuanian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vassilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Jacques, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Byun Yo-han, South Korean actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lee Chae-young, South Korean actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Viljar Veski, Estonian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sisa Waqa, Fijian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Monique Alfradique, Brazilian actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Knut B\u00f8rsheim, Norwegian golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sara Errani, Italian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0El\u00edas Hern\u00e1ndez, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alfred Hui, Hong Kong singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jovan Leacock, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taoufik Makhloufi, Algerian athlete<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Younha, South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Adam Smith, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emilio Orozco, American soccer player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christina Shakovets, German tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Katherine Langford, Australian actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Infanta Sof\u00eda of Spain, Spanish princess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 29 April 1990 &#8211; The destruction of the Berlin Wall began. 1992 &#8211; Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township,\u00a0NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity. 1992 &#8211; Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1199,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-29-april","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5kg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}