29 April: There's A Riot Going On

On 29 April 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. (Go to article.)

On 29 April 1901 Hirohito, ruler of Japan during World War II and Japan's longest-reigning monarch, was born. Following his death on 7 Jan. 1989 his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)

On 29 April 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Congress and British-American relations. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

The cartoon itself:

A sad lack of Tall Sycamores who represent Mighty Rivers in Washington today. Though arrests of possibly seditious aliens are nothing new.