Video: 'TV Land Debut, April 29, 1996'
(Monday, April 29, 1996, afternoon MST) — TV Land, an American basic cable and satellite television channel, launched today as a 24-hour offshoot of Nickelodeon’s successful nighttime classic television block Nick at Nite.
Video: 'The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping [Rehearsal] (Anthology 2 Disc 1)'
(Friday, April 29, 1966, 5:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. BST) — The English rock band The Beatles continued production of their seventh studio album Revolver this afternoon at EMI Studio 3 in London, as they attempted to remake John Lennon’s “I’m Only Sleeping.” Continue reading The Beatles attempt remake of ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ 50 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1966)
Video: 'Japanese war criminals go on trial in Tokyo Newsreel PublicDomainFootage.com'
(Monday, April 29, 1946, during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East) — Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo (1941–44), Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939), Koki Hirota (1936–37) and Kuniaki Koiso (1944–45), and 24 co-defendants were indicted today in Tokyo for war crimes, ranging from the murder of thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor, to conspiracy “to secure military, naval, political and economic domination of the whole world.”
All of the surviving members of Tojo’s cabinet members were included in the 55 count indictment.
Video: 'Real archival footage from 1916 Easter Rising, Dublin'
(Saturday, April 29, 1916) — The Easter Rising armed insurrection in Dublin to push for an end to British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic collapsed today as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
