30th year - N° 119 Wednesday, 29 April 2015

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30th year - N° 119 Wednesday, 29 April 2015

29 April / Today's 12 Events:

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(x) 245 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1770 42-year-old Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook lands with the HMB Endeavour in Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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(+) 152 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1863 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 116 years ago Saturday 29th of April 1899 Bandleader and composer Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(+) 114 years ago Monday 29th of April 1901 Emperor of Japan Hirohito aka Emperor Shōwa is born in Aoyama Palace, Moto-Akasaka, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 108 years ago Monday 29th of April 1907 Singer and actor Tino Constantin Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

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(+) 98 years ago She Was Transfigured in Time Sunday 29th of April 1917 Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, originally Eleanora Derenkowskaia is born in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

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(-) 96 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1919 Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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(x) 70 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1945 Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 64 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1951 Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer at the age of 62 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 45 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1970 Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 29th of April 2005 A carboot sale of fresh pig meat outside our apartment in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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(-) 1 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 2014 Kidnapper and murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett dies of a heart attack after a botched execution by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

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