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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 29, 2021:
17th calendar week, 119th day of the year
246 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Katharina, Roswitha
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - An unfinished department store burns down in the South Korean city of Icheon.
At least 38 workers are killed.
2011 - Prince William marries longtime girlfriend Catherine Middleton in London.
Around 1900 guests follow the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
2008 - After a long tug of war, the 88-year-old boss of the Bayreuth Festival, Wolfgang Wagner, announces his resignation.
In September Eva Wagner-Pasquier and her half-sister Katharina are confirmed as their father's successors.
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2004 - Against the votes of the Union and FDP, the Bundestag approves the pension tax law.
The pensions will be taxed gradually from January 1, 2005.
1991 - The south of Bangladesh is flooded by a tropical cyclone.
According to official figures, around 140,000 people die.
1978 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 12-0 against Borussia Dortmund, the highest victory in the history of the Bundesliga to date.
1961 - Politicians, scientists and business people adopt the so-called Morges Manifesto and declare that they want to raise money for nature conservation worldwide.
The manifesto is considered to be the founding declaration of the WWF.
1956 - The first edition of the Sunday newspaper “Bild am Sonntag” is delivered.
1946 - The proceedings against the former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo begin before an international court martial.
He was convicted and executed as a war criminal in 1948.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Anja Karliczek (50), German politician (CDU), Federal Minister for Education and Research since 2018
1961 - Michael Roll (60), German actor (SAT.1 crime series "Der König")
1946 - Karl-Heinz Funke (75), German politician (SPD), Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture 1998-2001
1936 - Zubin Mehta (85), Indian conductor, general music director of the Bavarian State Opera 1998-2006
1921 - Rolf Krickow, German presenter, radio presenter for many years and quiz master for the radio of the GDR, died 2003
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Teofila Reich-Ranicki, German artist, wife of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, born in 1920
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austro-British philosopher ("Tractatus logico-philosophicus"), born in 1889
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