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History on the 29th of April

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29 Apr 1607 RELIGIOUS The first Anglican (Episcopal) church in the American colonies was established at Cape Henry, Virginia.
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29 Apr 1834 RELIGIOUS Birth of Joseph H. Gilmore, American Baptist clergyman and Hebrew instructor. He is better remembered today, however, as author of the hymn: "He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought."
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29 Apr 1918 WW2 Robert Greim was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords medal. 
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29 Apr 1921 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at New York City, New York, United States. 
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29 Apr 1924 WW2 Sendai was commissioned into service. 
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29 Apr 1932 WW2 Yoshinori Shirakawa was seriously wounded by a bomb planted by Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil at Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in Shanghai, China; Shirakawa would die of his wounds a month later. 
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29 Apr 1932 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was blinded in the right eye by an attack by Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil at Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in Shanghai, China. 
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29 Apr 1932 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda lost his left leg to a bomb planted by Korean nationalist Yun Bong-gil at Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in Shanghai, China. 
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29 Apr 1932 WW2 Yun Bong-gil detonated a bomb at Hongkou Park (now Lu Xun Park) in Shanghai, China, killing General Yoshinori Shirakawa and Government Chancellor Kawabata Sadaji. He failed to get away and was arrested. 
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29 Apr 1933 WW2 In Germany the Verkehrsministeriuin (Ministry of Communications) was established by Adolf Hitler as a cover for a new air ministry. This was later renamed the Reichsluftfahrtministerium and to be headed by Hermann Göring as Reichskommisar for air, with Erhard Milch as his deputy. 
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29 Apr 1933 RELIGIOUS The Navigators trace their origin to this date, when founder Dawson Trotman began the work in San Pedro, CA. In 1943, this evangelical mission was formally incorporated, and is headquartered today in Colorado Springs, CO.
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29 Apr 1934 WW2 Kuniaki Koiso was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class and the Order of the Golden Kite, 2nd Class. 
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29 Apr 1934 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was awarde Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum. 
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29 Apr 1934 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was awarded the Order of the Golden Kite Second Class. 
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29 Apr 1934 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st Class) and Order of the Golden Kite 3rd Class. 
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29 Apr 1935 WW2 The US Marine Corps' Fleet Marine Force units on the west coast of the United States began their participation in the landing operations of US Fleet Problem XVI and in the establishment of a base at Midway. 
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29 Apr 1937 WW2 In a speech to local party district leaders Adolf Hitler explained that only one political party was needed in a society united with one will. 
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29 Apr 1938 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto shot down several Chinese fighters in combat. 
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29 Apr 1938 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Wuhan, Hubei, China; Chinese fighters shot down 21 Japanese aircraft at cost of only 12 aircraft lost. 
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29 Apr 1939 WW2 Admiral Hipper was commissioned into German Navy service. 
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29 Apr 1939 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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29 Apr 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Unity collided with Norwegian freighter Atle Jarl in the harbor of Blyth, England in foggy weather at 1730 hours. Unity sank within 5 minutes, killing 4. Lieutenant John Low and Able Seaman Henry Miller were posthumously awarded the George Cross for their self-sacrifice while helping fellow comrades in their escape. 
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29 Apr 1940 WW2 Troops of the German 196th Division marched out of the Gudbrandsdal Valley in Norway and linked up with German troops near Trondheim, threatening to surround the British 15th Brigade. In the United Kingdom, British destroyers HMS Kelly, HMS Maori, and HMS Imperial and French destroyer Bison departed Scapa Flow, Scotland to evacuate British troops at Namsos, Norway; they were escorted by cruisers and other destroyers. 
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29 Apr 1940 WW2 Hisao Tani was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 1st Class. 
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29 Apr 1940 WW2 King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government evacuated to Tromsø, Norway via British cruiser HMS Glasgow. 
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29 Apr 1940 WW2 The US Department of State ended its investigation on the 5 Sep 1939 incident during which British personnel forcefully boarded Filipino Don Isidro at Port Said, Egypt and removed German engineers. Although the Americans did not receive a satisfactory explanation from the British, they assumed that "similar instances will not be permitted to occur in the future." 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 Allied resistance on mainland Greece ended at 0530 hours when 8,000 British, New Zealand, Australian, Greek, and Yugoslavian troops surrendered at Kalamata, Greece. On the same day, British intelligence picked up positive information about the German invasion of Crete; in response, most British troopships at Suda Bay in Crete were dispatched to Alexandria, Egypt to prevent being attacked by German aircraft. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 Charles Lindbergh resigned from the US Army reserves. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 Overnight, German bombers attacked Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, damaging cruiser HMS Trinidad and sinking auxiliary patrol vessel Pessac. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-75 hit British passenger liner City of Nagpur 500 miles west of Ireland with 4 torpedoes between 0230 and 0600 hours, ultimately sinking her and killing 16; 452 survivors were picked up by destroyer HMS Hurricane. 10 miles off the coast of England, United Kingdom in the North Sea, German motor torpedo boats sank British ship Ambrose Fleming, killing 11. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked Allied defenses at Tobruk, Libya as well as its harbor, sinking HMS Chakla. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 Indian 20th Infantry Brigade arrived at Basra, Iraq from Bombay, India. 
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29 Apr 1941 WW2 The British Admiralty issued a request for six C-3 Liberty hulls to be converted to fighter aircraft carriers. Five of these (HMS Archer, Avenger, Biter, Dasher and Tracker) would enter service in 1943 equipped with Martlet and Swordfish aircraft. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-108 pursued US tanker Mobiloil from 0900 hours to 1645 hours, finally sinking her 400 kilometers north to Puerto Rico with the sixth torpedo expended in this effort; all 53 aboard survived. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force departed Rabaul, New Britain aboard transports for the invasion of the RAAF seaplane base at Tulagi, Solomon Islands. On the same day, other transports at Rabaul embarked equipment necessary to build a new base at Port Moresby, Australian Papua. In Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team intercepted a radio message from Isoroku Yamamoto to Shigeyoshi Inoue regarding Operation MO, in which Yamamoto made mention of northern Australia, thus giving Rochefort confidence regarding the hypothesis that Operation MO's target was Port Moresby. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 The Tenderloo chemical works in Belgium was destroyed by a resistance group, killing over 250 people. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 The rate of German retaliatory executions of Belgians was reported to be 25 to 30 per month. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Soviet forces launched a counter offensive near Kursk, Russia. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 British sailing vessel Terpsithea struck a mine (laid by German submarine U-562 on 13 Apr 1942) in Famagusta Bay, Cyprus in the evening; as British tug Alliance approached the damaged sail for rescue, she also hit a mine at 1945 hours and sank, killing 3. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Lansdowne was commissioned into service. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Admiral Ernest King established the South Pacific Amphibious Force composed primarily of the 1st Marine Division. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-66 sank Panamanian tanker Harry G. Seidel 50 miles west of Grenada; 2 were killed, 48 survived. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 4 minesweepers departed from the close escort force of Allied convoy QP-11 off northern Russia; later on the same day, the convoy was spotted by a German Ju 88 aircraft. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 In the morning, Three US B-28 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, destroying five Zero fighters on the ground and damaged four more. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Rabaul, New Britain. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese 18th Infantry Division captured Kyaukse, Burma just south of Mandalay. To the west, Japanese 33rd Infantry Division pursued the Anglo-Indian withdraw across the Irrawaddy River toward India. To the north, 100 kilometers south of the border with China, Japanese 56th Infantry Division captured Lashio midday. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 88 British bombers (73 Wellington, 9 Hampden, 6 Stirling) attacked the Gnome et Rhône aircraft engine factory near Paris, France; one building was destroyed and three buildings damaged at the cost of 3 bombers destroyed. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Nachi was made the flagship of Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya of the 5th Fleet. She departed Yokosuka, Japan later in the day. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Naka entered the drydock at Keppel Harbor, Singapore. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. To the north at the island of Luzon, minesweeper USS Finch was damaged by Japanese air attacks. A large scale artillery and aerial bombardment was conducted at the island of Corregidor at the tip of Bataan Peninsula, Luzon. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Norwich, England, United Kingdom. 
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29 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Wasp arrived at Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, completing Operation Calendar. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 Starting at midnight, German submarines U-650, U-375, U-386, U-528, and U-532 attacked Allied convoy ONS 5 in the North Atlantic. They scored no hits until around 1200 hours when US freighter McKeesport sunk by a torpedo from U-528; three attacking submarines were damaged during the attacks and were forced to return to base to receive repairs. Upon learning the attacks, the British Admiralty dispatched additional destroyers to reinforce the escort force. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion sank a Japanese patrol vessel by gunfire. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Becuna was laid down. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was promoted to the rank of admiral. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 Soviet counterintelligence agency GUKR SMERSH named its chiefs in each military front, with A. A. Avseevich to the Northwestern Front, G. S. Bolotin-Balyasny to the Volkhov Front, I. P. Konovalov to the Southern Front, S. F. Kozhevnikov to the Leningrad Front, N. G. Kravchenko to the Bryansk Front, A. P. Misyurev to the Kalinin Front, F. G. Petrov to the Southwestern Front, K. L. Prokhorenko to the Voronezh Front, V. P. Rogov to the Western Front, and I. T. Rusak to the Karelian Front. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was summoned to Joseph Stalin's office to consider GUKR SMERSH deputies; at the same meeting, Abakumov was named the deputy commissar of the NKO, reporting directly to Stalin. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 German troops fell back to Lake Garaet Anchkel west of Bizerte, Tunisia; "Grado" Battalion of the "San Marco" naval infantry regiment of Italian Navy served as rearguard. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 After much experimentation an "Upkeep" bomb drop was successfully carried out at Reculver in southeastern Britain. By this time several of the new Lancaster bombers modified for dam attacks had been delivered to the squadron's base, RAF Scampton, in Lincolnshire. 
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29 Apr 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault arrived in Washington DC, United States. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Tunny departed Brisbane, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese convoy south of Taiwan and damaged one transport with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 American troops captured the Japanese airfield at Hollandia, New Guinea. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 After dark, Japanese troops launched a counterattack at Kohima, India. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan for Iwakuni, Japan. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 Australian Prime Minister John Curtin arrived in London, England, United Kingdom for the Imperial Conference. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 In England, United Kingdom, Dwight Eisenhower cabled Washington DC, United States, telling Marshall that he was pondering the notion of firing George Patton because "he simply does not keep his mouth shut", referring to the 25 Apr 1944 incident in which Patton spoke of his vision of a post-war world that, after being mis-quoted by a reporter, created another public relations row for Eisenhower's headquarters. 
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29 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Barbero was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Irvin S. Hartman in command. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The bodies of Mussolini and Petacci were taken to Milan, Italy and hung upside down for public display at the spot where partisans had been executed earlier. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The Soviet Union set up a provisional government in Vienna, Austria. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese B5N torpedo bombers from Truk, Caroline Islands attacked Manus, Admiralty Islands; they launched torpedoes at floating docks, which were misidentified as carriers. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese transport Kumikawa Maru hit a mine laid by Australian aircraft and became damaged off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Eva Braun changed her legal name to Eva Hitler after marrying Adolf Hitler. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Macabi departed New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese tanker south of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The two-prong assault by Indian 17th Division on Pegu, Burma was repulsed. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in his bunker in Berlin, Germany, and began dictating his final political testament and will. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army crossed the Elbe River at Hamburg, Germany. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 US troops arrived at the outskirts of München, Germay. To the west, French First Army captured Freidrichshafen. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 In Germany, troops of US 157th and 122nd Infantry Regiments executed 165 German SS prisoners of war at Dachau Concentration Camp and the hamlet of Weßling to the southwest before a colonel intervened. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 In the afternoon, Colonel Nicolaus von Below and other three adjutant officers departed Adolf Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 US tanks arrived at Oberammergau air test facility in southern Germany. Aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt was captured along with a P.1101 prototype jet aircraft. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 The British 2nd Army captured Lauenburg, just south of Hamburg, in Germany, thus trapping all German forces in Denmark and securing the Baltic Ports. When Soviet forces arrived at Lubeck and Wismar not long afterwards they found British and Canadian paratroopers waiting for them. Bernard Montgomery had thereby, not only denied Joseph Stalin the opportunity to seize Denmark, but had also kept the Soviet Navy locked within the Baltic Sea. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Ray arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Midway for her fourth war patrol. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 British Eighth and US Fifth Armies linked up near Padua, Italy, which had just been liberated by Italian partisans who surrounded the 5,000-strong German garrison. Later in the day, German Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff surrendered Axis forces in northern Italy. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 German 148th Division, Italian 4th Alpine Division "Monte Rosa", Italian 3rd Marine Division "San Marco", and German 29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division (Italian troops) surrendered to Brazilian General Mascarenhas de Moraes near Parma, Italy. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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29 Apr 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-66 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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29 Apr 1945 RELIGIOUS U.S. troops liberated the oldest of the Nazi concentration camps -- Dachau -- in Bavaria, West Germany. It is estimated that nearly 32,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished at Dachau during its 12-year existence as a Nazi detention camp.
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29 Apr 1946 WW2 Apogon was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Apr 1946 WW2 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals at Tokyo, Japan. 
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29 Apr 1948 WW2 The trial against Albert Forster ended. 
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29 Apr 1952 RELIGIOUS Death of Samuel M. Zwemer, 85, American Dutch Reformed missionary. Serving in Egypt between 1890-1905, Zwemer helped found the Arabian Mission in 1888 and authored over 50 volumes during his life -- many in Arabic.
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