It happened today – April 29. The US is withdrawing almost all of its forces from Saudi Arabia after the Iraq war

[1945– The terms of surrender of the German armies in Italy were signed; Venice and Mestre were captured by the Allies; in Berlin, H*tler married Eva Braun, but also made his will in which he named Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor. American forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany.

1972 – In Burundi, deposed King Ntare V was killed in a failed coup.

1980 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the British-born film director best known for his suspense thrillers, notably “Psycho,” has died.

2000 – Pham Van Dong, who served as prime minister in Hanoi for more than three decades until 1987, has died. An intellectual, Dong was considered close to Vietnam’s late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.

2002 – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was greeted by East Timorese school children as he became the first head of state to visit the new state.

2003 – The United States has said it is ending its military operations in Saudi Arabia and withdrawing almost all of its forces from the kingdom after the Iraq war.

2005 – Taiwanese opposition leader Lien Chan met Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing and ended decades of hostility between the Chinese Communist Party and its civil war foe, the Kuomintang.

2006 – The presidents of Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela sign the “Peoples’ Trade Treaty” to counter the free trade agreements Washington is seeking with Latin American nations.

2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, American economist, best-selling author and former presidential adviser, has died at the age of 97.

2007 – Up to 1 million secular protesters gathered in Istanbul, accusing the Turkish government and the ruling AK Party of planning to create an Islamist state, demanding it withdraw its presidential candidate.

2013 – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the first high-level meeting between Russia and Japan in a decade.

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