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1328: Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian explains to Pope John XII, who resides in Avignon. for a heretic and felon against majesty, and as such deposed.
1933: Nobel Prize winner James Franck resigned from his position as director of the Physics Institute at the University of Göttingen and declared that he did not want to make use of the privileges for Jewish front-line fighters.
1948: The company name “adidas” is registered as a trademark. The name is a combination of the first and last name of the entrepreneur Adolf “Adi” Dassler.
1953: With the Vickers Viscount, British European Airways is using turboprop aircraft for the first time on the London – Nicosia route.
1963: The Spanish communist Julián Grimau was sentenced to death in Madrid and executed on April 20.
1983: The US embassy in Beirut is destroyed in a bomb attack, killing 66.
1998: The second largest opera house in Europe opens in Baden-Baden. In the building designed by the Austrian architect Wilhelm Holzbauer, which offers space for 2,500 visitors, the Herbert von Karajan Whitsun Festival, recruited from Salzburg, takes place.
2003: The pro-American exile opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the “Iraqi National Congress”, is calling for the United States to hand over power soon in Baghdad.
birthdays: Sir Arnold Lunn, British ski racer, mountaineer and writer; developed the modern rules of downhill and slalom (1888-1974); Frida Leider, German soprano (1888-1975); NO Scarpi (aka Friedrich Bondy), Eastern Switzerland. writer (1888-1980); Otto Piene, German painter and light artist (1928-2014); Harald Dietl, German actor (1933-2022); Hannes Androsch, Austria Politician/bank director and entrepreneur (1938); Frederick Alan “Rick” Moranis, Canada. Actor, Comedian and Musician (1953); Haile (Guebre) Gebrselassie, formerly Ethiopia. track and field athlete (1973); Maxim Podoprigora, former Austrian Swimmer Soviet Hrkft.; In 2001 he was the first Austrian to win a swimming medal at a World Championships (1978).
days of death: Justus von Liebig, German chemist (1803-1873); Toni Hagen, Switzerland. geologist and Nepal expert (1917-2003); Jacqueline Veuve, Swiss documentary filmmaker (1930-2013); Werner Pochath, Austria actor (1941-1993); Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (1944-2013).
name days: Werner, Mechthilde, Wiggo, Wigbert, Hugo, Valerian, Apollonius, Florian, Aja, Alexander, Victor.
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