Ten years ago: Opening statements took place in Los Angeles in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, against concert giant AEG Live, claiming it had failed to properly investigate a doctor who cared for Jackson and was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter in his 2009 death. In 2020, scientists announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus, the experimental antiviral medication remdesivir, which they said could speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients. In 2011, Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton were married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey. The NCAA’s Board of Directors approved a 68-team format for the men’s basketball tournament beginning the next season. Navy officially ended a ban on women serving on submarines, saying the first women would be reporting for duty by 2012. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed “divisive and destructive” remarks on race. In 2008, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the Rev. In 1997, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect. In 1992, a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King the verdicts were followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 1991, a cyclone began striking the South Asian country of Bangladesh it ended up killing more than 138,000 people, according to the U.S. In 1967, Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” was released as a single by Atlantic Records. In 1957, the SM-1, the first military nuclear power plant, was dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designated Adm.

In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau (DAH’-khow) concentration camp. In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapsed as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities. In 1429, Joan of Arc entered the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English. On April 29, 1946, 28 former Japanese officials went on trial in Tokyo as war criminals seven ended up being sentenced to death.

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