| April 29, 1942 |
| Exclusion Order No. 20 affected 660 people living in the area bounded by Sutter and California streets and Presidio and Van Ness Avenues in San Francisco. The Japanese Americans living in those neighborhoods were ordered to report to 2031 Bush St. for registration, and then, on this day, for removal to internment camps for the duration of the Second World War, and faced loss of their homes and businesses. Presentation on what happened (Check it out! Some of Dorothea Lange’s work.) |
| April 29, 1962 Nobel Prize-winner (for chemistry in 1954) Linus Pauling picketed the White House with others protesting the resumption of nuclear weapons testing. He had been invited there by President John Kennedy, to be honored at a dinner along with other Nobelists.  |
April 29, 1968 Peace message, Vanessa Redgrave, 1968 photo: Frank Habicht Actress Vanessa Redgrave was among 826 British anti-nuclear protesters arrested during a London demonstration protesting the Vietnam War. Film from the BBC and their take on the demonstration that day |
| April 29, 1970 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and began a bombing campaign, known as Arclight, that widened the Vietnam War. They were after North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops and supplies that had been moved into Cambodia. By the time the bombing ceased in 1973, the U.S. had dropped more than half a million tons of ordnance on Cambodia, three and a half times that dropped on Japan in World War II. Background on the Cambodia “incursion” |
| April 29, 1992 Deadly rioting erupted in Los Angeles after an all-white jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the beating of Rodney King, an African-American motorist who had been stopped for a traffic offense.Videotape of the abuse had been seen around the world. 17 other officers, who had been present and had not intervened, were never charged. The National Guard was called out to help restore civil order. By the time schools were able to re-open on May 4, more than 50 had been killed, over 4000 injured, 12,000 people arrested, and $1 billion in property damage.  The Riot The trial (The original link to the trial news on History.com is no longer present. This link will take you to more about the rioting. Again, noting the loss of the info, this time, also again, that an all white jury acquitted police of battery of a Black man.) |
| April 29, 2016 Gary Tyler was released from Angola penitentiary in Louisiana. He was just 16 years old when charged with shooting a white student in 1974. Gary was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury and became the youngest person on death row. His case sparked a movement to gain his release which persisted for 40 years.  FreeGaryTyler.com Read more about the case and the movement to free him Listen/watch more about the case Democracy Now |
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