Unix Timestamp: 1020038400
Monday, April 29. 2002, 12:00:00 AM UTC

An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton takes place in Westminster Abbey Middleton becomes HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. Police make at least 18 arrests along the wedding route in London. //artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/get-your-royal-wedding-fix-on-tv/?smid=tw-artsbeatseid=auto ("The New York Times") //english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/04/20114297035414865.html (Al Jazeera) //www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/28/royal-wedding-schedule-minute-by-minute-timetable-115875-23090994/ ("Daily Mirror") //www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13132410 (BBC) //news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115981730 (Sky News)

The third C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group meets in Seoul.

Amidst Russia's effort to improve relations with NATO and with the West in general, NATO expels two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia. Russia's Foreign Ministry criticises the expulsions.

Following more than a quarter-century of fighting, the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the total military defeat of the LTTE.

An explosion in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan kills at least 15 Afghans with another 25 injured. //www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042900241.html (Reuters via "The Washington Post")

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon establishes a task force to tackle the 2007–2008 world food price crisis. //ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtFqRVL1zLJZWOfQuDRQ-ihVYBOgD90BFCQ01 (AP via Google News)

The last Oldsmobile in the GM marque's 107-year history rolls off of the assembly line.

The United States announces that it will be reducing its military presence in Saudi Arabia to a handful of advisors.

The United States announces the withdrawal of troops stationed in Saudi Arabia, and the redeployment of some at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Commodore International declares bankruptcy.

Los Angeles riots: Acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 53 deaths and over a $1 billion in damages before order is restored.

30 ndash In Lesotho, a bloodless coup ousts military ruler Justin Lekhanya. On May 2, he is replaced as Chairman of the Military Council by Elias Phisoana Ramaema.

Diamond Jubilee of Hirohito is held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo

The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical "Hair" is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.

May

The Burundian Genocide against the Hutu begins more than 500,000 Hutus die.

Bolivia nationalizes the American-owned Matilde zinc mine.

The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong widespread, large antiwar protests occur in the U.S.

The musical "Hair" officially opens on Broadway.

Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.

The Church of Satan is formed by Anton Szandor LaVey in San Francisco

U.S. troops in Vietnam total 250,000.

Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000 due to the Channel Tunnel).

Liverpool wins the FA Cup Final, beating Leeds Utd 2–1.

Bob Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales.

Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.

The Battle of Dong-Yin occurs as a conflict between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.

Buddy Rogers becomes the first WWF Chion.

Lever House officially opens at 390 Park Avenue in New York City, heralding a new age of commercial architecture in the United States. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it is the first International Style skyscraper.

RKO releases the Howard Hawks sci-fi film, The Thing (From Another World).

The "News Review" reveals neither Selhurst College nor its headmaster H. Rochester Sneath exist.!This is newsworthy why, exactly?

Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo the accused include Hideki Tōjō, Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima.

May ndash Operation Pluto: The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France is tested in the River Medway.

WWII: An explosion at a chemical factory in Tessenderlo, Belgium leaves 200 dead and 1,000 injured.

The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

A 30-million-msup3/sup landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta.

Redondo Beach, California, USA is founded.

General William Tecumseh Sherman brokers the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States the Plains Indians.

Austrian troops begin to cross the Ticino River to Piedmont.

Pope Pius IX publishes an allocution announcing his refusal to support Piedmont-Sardinia in its war with Austria and dispelling hopes that he might serve as ruler of a pan-Italian republic. The allocution, by which Pius is seen to withdraw his moral support for the Italian unification movement, is a key first step in the soon-to-be crushing reaction against the revolutions of 1848.

The Rush-Bagot Treaty is signed.

May ndash The General Convention of the Episcopal Church founds the General Theological Seminary while meeting in New York City.

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck is appointed as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic by Napoleon.

May 1 ndash Battle of Boulou: The French defeat the Spanish and Portuguese forces.

James Cook drops anchor in a wide bay about 16 km (10 mi) south of the present city of Sydney, Australia. Because the young botanist on board the ship, Joseph Banks, discovers 30,000 specimens of plant life in the area, 1,600 of them unknown to European science, Cook calls the place Botany Bay.

James Watt is granted a patent for improvements to the steam engine, an invention which helps inaugurate the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.

Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.

Battle of Cuddalore: A British fleet under Sir George Pocock engages the French fleet of Anne Antoine d'Aché indecisively near Madras.

Death of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia. Friedrich III becomes Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia until 1701, when he becomes the first King of Prussia as Friedrich I.

Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope.

Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of the Royal Council.

A fleet of 11 Dutch ships depart for the coast of Peru, seeking to seize Spanish treasure.

Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.

Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

February With the taking of Noto, the Normans complete the 30 year long conquest of Sicily from the Islamic rulers.

The Islamic Abbadid dynasty ruling in Spain falls when the Almoravids storm Seville. Confronted with this new threat, the king of Badajoz, al-Mutawakkil ibn al-Aftas, obtains the support of Castile in exchange for the Muslim positions on the Tagus river — Sintra, Santarém and Lisbon.ref name=picard2000

Athanasius VI bar Khamoro becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Roger Guiscard takes Malta.

Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs besiege Constantinople, but are defeated so decisively by Emperor Alexius I that they fade into oblivion.