On this day in history - Today, April, 29

Today in History

• 1945 A day before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun marry

  On the same day, U.S. troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp near Munich.

• 1968 The musical Hair goes to Broadway

  As a portrait of the 1960s hippie counterculture and sexual revolution, it was highly controversial

• 1975 Hubert van Es takes the famous picture of a helicopter airlift from a Saigon rooftop

  The image shows South Vietnamese civilians employed by the U.S. trying to escape Saigon on the day b

• 1992 Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles

  53 people died in the riots, which started after the acquittal of the 4 Los Angeles police officers

• 1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention becomes effective

  The arms control treaty prohibits the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons. It has so fa