Today in History: Soviet Tanks Enter Berlin

April 29 is the 119nd (120rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 246.

Railways

• 29 April 1871 It was decided to make a line in the Shumen direction.
• 29 April 1927 Yerköy-Kayseri railway line is in operation. Contractor Emin Sazak (Cumhuriyet İnşaat A.Ş)

Events

• 1903 - 70 people died in a landslide in Alberta, Canada.
• 1916 – In the Siege of Kut'ül Ammare, the 6th Army under the command of Halil Kut Pasha took the British Mesopotamian army in the town of Kut'ül Ammare on the Iraqi front.
• 1920 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved the Treason-i Vataniye Law.
• 1939 – In the European Wrestling Championship, Turkish wrestlers Yaşar Doğu and Mustafa Çakmak came second in Europe in 66 and 87 kilos.
• 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender.
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in Berlin and appointed Admiral Karl Dönitz as heir apparent.
• 1945 – Soviet tanks enter Berlin.
• 1945 – Detainees at Dachau Concentration Camp are liberated by the US Army's 42nd Infantry Division and other 7th Army units.
• 1949 – The trial of Ali Ertegin, who killed Sabahattin Ali, began.
• 1951 – Turkish National Team won the World Wrestling Championship, which was held for the first time in the freestyle category in Helsinki.
• 1955 – Civil war begins in South Vietnam.
• 1959 – CHP Chairman İsmet İnönü went on a country tour covering the Aegean provinces. The public was prevented from meeting with the opposition leader and demonstrating at Ankara Station and Eskişehir Train Station by the police.
• 1959 – Izmir Collective Press Court, Democrat Izmir newspaper sentenced Şeref Bakşık, Editor-in-Chief, to 14 days in prison for unlawful rebuttal. Istanbul Collective Press Court, Havadis newspaper The Editor-in-Chief, Hamdi Tezkan, was sentenced to 12 days in prison for the same crime.
• 1960 – Universities in Ankara and Istanbul were closed for 1 month. A student died the previous day in the armed intervention of the police in the demonstrations at Istanbul University, and martial law was declared.
• 1964 – The Parliamentary Correspondents Association was founded.
• 1968 – Hair Musical opened on Broadway.
• 1969 – The Land Office Law was passed in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the General Directorate of the Land Office was established. (Removed on December 15, 2004)
• 1971 – Çetin Altan and İlhan Selçuk were detained for questioning regarding the 9 March 1971 coup attempt.
• 1972 – President Cevdet Sunay gave the task of forming the government to former Prime Minister Suat Hayri Ürgüplü.
• 1979 – Süleyman Demirel was elected as the “Muhtars of Turkey” at the 5th General Assembly of the Turkish Federation of Mukhtars.
• 1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): Left-wing militants Seyit Konuk, İbrahim Ethem Coşkun and Necati Vardar killed pharmacist Turan İbrahim, the MHP İzmir provincial director.
• 1980 – The number of provinces where May 1 was banned increased to 30.
• 1981 – Ankara Martial Law Military Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit against MHP Chairman Alparslan Türkeş and 219 defendants, demanding death penalty.
• 1983 – According to the Ministry of Interior notification published in the Official Gazette, after the military coup of September 12, a total of 242 people were banned from politics, 10 for 481 years and 5 for 723 years.
• 1991 – A hurricane in Bangladesh killed at least 138.000 people and left 10 million homeless.
• 1992 – In a popular uprising in Los Angeles, 54 people died and hundreds of buildings were destroyed in three days.
• 2004 - Oldsmobile produces its last car. The company had been producing automobiles for exactly 107 years.
• 2005 – Syria withdrew completely from Lebanon after 29 years of occupation.
• 2007 – Çağlayan Meeting was held in Istanbul.
• 2011 – Prince William of Wales married Kate Middleton in the United Kingdom.
• 2017 – Access to Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey.

Births

• 1785 – Karl Drais, German inventor (d. 1851)
• 1806 – Ernst von Feuchtersleben, Austrian physician, poet, and philosopher (d. 1849)
• 1818 – II. Alexander, Tsar of Russia (d. 1881)
• 1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (d. 1912)
• 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1961)
• 1880 – Ali Fethi Okyar, Turkish soldier and politician (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Müfide Ferit Tek, Turkish novelist (d. 1971)
• 1893 – Harold Clayton Urey, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Duke Ellington, American jazz musician (d. 1974)
• 1901 – Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Eugène Ehrhart, French mathematician (d. 2000)
• 1907 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American film director and Academy Award winner for Best Director (d. 1997)
• 1943 – İlker Başbuğ, Turkish general and 26th Chief of General Staff
• 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
• 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
• 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1963 – Aykut Gürel, Turkish composer and musician
• 1967 – Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economist
• 1967 - Master P or as it is used in the business world P. Miller, American rapper, producer, actor and investor
• 1968 – Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatian politician who served as President of Croatia from February 2015 to February 2020
• 1969 – Izel Celiköz, Turkish singer
• 1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player
• 1970 - China Forbes, American singer-songwriter best known for his band Pink Martini
• 1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress
• 1974 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer
• 1975 – Ziynet Sali, Turkish Cypriot musician
• 1976 – Taner Gulleri, Turkish football player
• 1976 – Fabio Liverani, Italian national football player
• 1977 Titus O'Neil was an American professional wrestler and retired professional football player.
• 1979 - Lee Dong-Gook, South Korean football player
• 1982 – Cengiz Coşkun, Turkish model and actor
• 1982 – Kate Nauta, American actress, model, and singer
• 1983 – David Lee, American professional basketball player
• 1983 – Semih Şentürk, Turkish football player
• 1984 – Paulius Jankunas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1984 – Melike İpek Yalova, Turkish actress
• 1987 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
• 1988 - Elias Hernandez is a Mexican football player.
• 1988 – Tevfik Mahlufi, Algerian middle distance fighter
• 1991 – Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actor
• 1996 – Katherine Langford, Australian actress
• 2007 – Sofía de Borbón, King of Spain VI. He is the second child of Felipe and Letizia Ortiz.

Deaths

• 1380 – Catherine of Siena, non-nun and mystic of the Dominican Order (b. 1347)
• 1688 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1620)
• 1771 – Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Russian architect of Italian descent (b. 1700)
• 1870 – Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, president of Venezuela (b. 1820)
• 1924 – Ernest Fox Nichols, American educator and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1933 – Konstantinos Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Bernardino Machado, president of Portugal 1915-16 and 1925-26 (b. 1851)
• 1945 – Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, ​​II. Waffen SS general of Nazi Germany during World War II (b. 1893)
• 1947 – Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
• 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1951 – Osman Batur, Kazakh resistance leader (folk hero who fought against the Chinese for the independence of East Turkestan) (b. 1899)
• 1954 – Zekai Apaydın, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
• 1967 – Anthony Mann, American film director and actor (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish director, actor and producer (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Leman Cevat Tomsu, Turkish architect and academic (Turkey's first female architect) (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Burhan Uygur, Turkish painter (b. 1940)
• 2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss scientist (first person to synthesize LSD) (b. 1906)
• 2009 – Sedat Balkanlı, Turkish football player (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Avigdor Arikha, Israeli-French painter, printmaker, and art historian (b.1929)
• 2012 – Şükrü Gane, Libyan politician (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer (b. 1966)
• 2014 – Bob Hoskins, English actor (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Tahir Şeybi, Tunisian former national football player (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Gailene Stock, Australian-British ballerina and ballet instructor (b. 1946)
• 2016 – Alyson Bailes, British woman diplomat, policy expert, academic, and linguist (b. 1949)
• 2016 – Renato C. Corona, Filipino supreme court judge (b. 1948)
• 2016 – Jok Church, American animator and cartoon producer (b. 1949)
• 2016 – Chen Zhongshi, Chinese poet and writer (b. 1942)
• 2018 – Baki İlkin, Turkish diplomat (b. 1943)
• 2018 – Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1919)
• 2018 – Luis García Meza Tejada, former Bolivian dictator (b. 1929)
• 2018 – Michael Martin, British Labor politician (b. 1945)
• 2018 – Özden Örnek, Turkish soldier and 20th Commander of the Naval Forces (b. 1943)
• 2018 – Rose Laurens, French female singer and songwriter (b. 1953)
• 2019 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian speedway driver (b. 1932)
• 2019 – Dilber Ay, Turkish singer, songwriter and presenter (b. 1956)
• 2019 – Eldon A. Bargewell, American veteran veteran of the rank of Major General (b. 1947)
• 2019 – Gino Marchetti, American football player (b. 1926)
• 2019 – John Llewellyn Moxey, Argentine-born British film and television director (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Leslie Allan Murray, Australian poet, historian, novelist, educator and critic (b. 1938)
• 2019 – Josef Šural, Professional Czech football player (b. 1990)
• 2019 – Ellen Tauscher, American politician and diplomat (b. 1951)
• 2020 – Philippe Breton, French Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
• 2020 – Germano Celant, Italian art historian (b. 1940)
• 2020 – Lenora Garfinkel, American architect (b. 1930)
• 2020 – Denis Goldberg, South African human rights activist and politician (b. 1933)
• 2020 – Yahya Hassan, Danish poet and activist of Palestinian origin (b. 1995)
• 2020 – Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (b. 1967)
• 2020 – Martin Lovett, English cellist (b. 1927)
• 2020 – Dick Lucas, American football player (b. 1934)
• 2020 – Noel Walsh, Irish football player (b. 1935)
• 2021 – Amris, Indonesian politician and general (b. 1957)
• 2021 – Hans van Baalen, Dutch politician (b. 1960)
• 2021 – Rajendrasingh Baghel, Indian politician and agriculturist (b. 1945)
• 2021 – Anne Buydens, German-born Belgian-American actress, philanthropist, and filmmaker (b. 1919)
• 2021 – Johnny Crawford, American actor, singer, musician, and bandleader (b. 1946)
• 2021 – Zhang Enhua, Chinese national football player (b. 1973)
• 2021 – Billie Hayes, American stage, film and television actress (b. 1924)

Holidays and special occasions

• World Dance Day
• World Wish Day
• World Immunology Day