41st year - Nr 119 Wednesday, 29 April 2026

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41st year - Nr 119 Wednesday, 29 April 2026

29 April / Today's 33 Events:

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(x) 256 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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(+) 163 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1863 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(-) 145 years ago Friday 29th of April 1881 Murderer Royal S. Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, 546 State Farm Road, Windsor, Vermont, United States.

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(+) 127 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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(+) 125 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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(+) 119 years ago Monday 29th of April 1907 Singer and actor Tino Constantin Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

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(+) 119 years ago He Was a Baby for All Seasons Monday 29th of April 1907 Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

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(+) 109 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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(-) 107 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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(-) 83 years ago Thursday 29th of April 1943 Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 81 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1945 The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by units of 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks and the 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division soldiers led by Brigadier General Henning Linden in Konzentrationslager Dachau, Dachau, Bayern, Germany. Since 1945 adherents of the 42nd and 45th Division versions of events have argued over which unit was the first to liberate Dachau.

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(x) 81 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1945 Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler The concentration camp of Dachau is liberated by units of 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks and the 222nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division soldiers led by Brigadier General Henning Linden in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 81 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1945 Musician Hugh Colin Hopper known from the band ‘Soft Machine’ is born in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 77 years ago Friday 29th of April 1949 Murderer Andrew Martin Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 75 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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(+) 68 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1958 Double murderer Robert Wayne Vickers aka Bonzai Bob is born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 68 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1958 Actress Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Saturday 29th of April 1967 Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by serial killer Hans van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 56 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1970 Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago Thursday 29th of April 1971 Edna Terry MacDonald is strangled by serial rapist and murderer Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Friday 29th of April 1977 Marie-Therese Majer is murdered by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka Der Hammermörder in Schriesheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 49 years ago Friday 29th of April 1977 Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.

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(x) 49 years ago Friday 29th of April 1977 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 54. Aktion in Studio Morra, Via Calabritto, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1980 Darin Lee Kendrick is strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Stanton, California, United States. Bonin and Vernon Butts picked up Kendrick near Knott's Berry Farm, tied him up and forced him to drink chloral hydrate.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1980 Film director Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense dies of renal failure at the age of 81 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Thursday 29th of April 1993 Guitarist, songwriter, arranger and producer Mick Michael Ronson known from David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars dies of liver cancer at the age of 47 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1997 David Samuel Madson is shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Madson's body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1997 Double murderer Ernest Orville Baldree is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1998 Murderer Frank Basil McFarland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 29th of April 1998 Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 2003 Murderer David Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. Brewer's last meal request was for fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, apple pie and root beer.

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21 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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(-) 12 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 2014 Kidnapper and murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett dies of a heart attack during a botched execution by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

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