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The current calendar page for April 28, 2022:
17th calendar week, 118th day of the year 247 days until the end of the year Zodiac sign: Taurus Name day: Hugo, Pierre
HISTORICAL DATA
2021 – The European Parliament ratifies the trade and cooperation agreement with Great Britain by a large majority. It regulates the situation after Brexit.
2017 – The tragic comedy “Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade receives the Golden Lola and five other awards at the German Film Awards in Berlin. The silver Lola goes to the abortion drama “24 weeks”.
2004 – The Council of Europe broke ties with Belarus (now Belarus) over persistent human rights violations.
1992 – According to the operator, what was until then the largest solar power plant in Europe officially went online on Mont-Soleil near Saint-Imier in the Bernese Jura (Switzerland).
1977 – The RAF terrorists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life imprisonment. On October 18, 1977, the three of them committed suicide in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison.
1952 – The San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and the United States comes into effect. Japan is released from American military rule into sovereignty.
1947 – The Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl embarks on a voyage from South America to Polynesia on his raft “Kon-Tiki”, which was made of balsa wood.
1919 – At the peace conference of the victorious powers of the First World War in Paris, the statute of the League of Nations as an organization for the preservation of world peace is unanimously accepted. The statute is part of the Versailles Treaty.
1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and enlightener, is executed in Copenhagen. The lover of Queen Caroline Mathilde and father of a daughter had wanted to push through massive reforms against absolutism in Denmark as the guardian of the mentally ill King Christian VII.
BIRTHDAYS
1974 – Penélope Cruz (48), Spanish actress (“Sahara”, “Vanilla Sky”)
1962 – Susanne Klatten (60), German entrepreneur, daughter of Johanna Quandt and industrialist Herbert Quandt
1950 – Jay Leno (72), amerikanischer Talkmaster („The Tonight Show”)
1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator, head of state and government 1979-2003, was overthrown by the American invasion and sentenced to death and hanged in Baghdad in 2006, died 2006
1882 – Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, rubber manufacturer, car tire maker, died 1971
DEATH DAYS
1992 – Francis Bacon, British painter (“Crucifixion”, “Painting”, “Man in Blue”), born 1909
1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach, Reich coach 1936-1942, national coach 1949-1964, world champion as coach of the German national football team 1954, born 1897
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