NEWS FROM DOWN UNDER
Date: 30 April 1944
ROY L. CURTHOYS
Roy CURTHOYS
Hermann Scheer Birthday, Date of Birth
Hermann Scheer (29 April 1944 – 14 October 2010) was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (parliament), President of Eurosolar (European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. In 1999, Scheer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his "indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide".
Scheer believed that the continuation of current patterns of energy supply and use would be environmentally, socially, economically, and politically damaging, with renewable energy being the only realistic alternative. Scheer had concluded that it is technically and environmentally feasible to harness enough solar radiation to achieve a total replacement of the foclear (fossil/nuclear) energy system by a global renewable energy economy. The main obstacle to such a change is seen to be political, not technical or economic. In 1999 he was one of the initiators of the German feed-in tariffs that were the major source of the rise of renewable energies in Germany during the following years.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, April 29, 1944
- Place of Birth
- Age
- 81
- Star Sign
- ♉
The April 29, 1944 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 119 day of the year. President of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 81 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 138 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in 226 days. You have lived for 29,723 days, or about 713,359 hours, or about 42,801,598 minutes, or about 2,568,095,880 seconds.
Some people who share this birthday:
- Daniel Day-Lewis (artist, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1957)
- Hirohito (aristocrat, diplomat, marine biologist, military personnel, monarch, zoologist, born April 29, 1901)
- Bernard Madoff (banker, economist, financier, stockbroker, born April 29, 1938)
- Michelle Pfeiffer (beauty pageant contestant, film actor, film producer, model, singer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born April 29, 1958)
- Uma Thurman (actor, film actor, film producer, model, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born April 29, 1970)
- Alexander II of Russia (politician, born April 29, 1818)
- Willie Nelson (actor, author, entrepreneur, environmentalist, film director, film producer, guitarist, musician, record producer, singer, singer-songwriter, studio musician, taekwondo athlete, television actor, television producer, writer, born April 29, 1933)
- Jerry Seinfeld (stand-up comedian, born April 29, 1954)
- Andre Agassi (autobiographer, businessperson, tennis player, born April 29, 1970)
- Megan Boone (actor, environmentalist, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1983)
- William Randolph Hearst (art collector, businessperson, politician, publisher, reporter, socialite, born April 29, 1863)
- Dale Earnhardt (NASCAR team owner, motorcycle rider, racing automobile driver, born April 29, 1951)
- Leslie Jordan (actor, film actor, playwright, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1955)
- Vito Corleone (crime boss, mobster, born April 29, 1891)
- David Icke (anti-vaccine activist, association football player, businessperson, conspiracy theorist, sports journalist, television presenter, ufologist, writer, born April 29, 1952)
- Duke Ellington (autobiographer, bandleader, composer, conductor, film score composer, jazz arranger, jazz musician, lyricist, music arranger, musician, pianist, record producer, born April 29, 1899)
- Infanta Sofía of Spain (aristocrat, schoolchild, born April 29, 2007)
- Marc Clotet (actor, model, television actor, born April 29, 1980)
- Master P (actor, basketball player, businessperson, film actor, film director, film producer, motivational speaker, musician, rapper, record producer, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, talent agent, talent manager, television actor, television producer, voice actor, born April 29, 1967)
- Kate Mulgrew (film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born April 29, 1955)
- Timothy Treadwell (ecologist, environmentalist, film director, born April 29, 1957)
- Yūko Tanaka (actor, seiyū, born April 29, 1955)
- Yukiya Kitamura (actor, born April 29, 1974)
- Tyler Labine (actor, comedian, film actor, television actor, born April 29, 1978)
- Paul Adelstein (actor, film actor, film director, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1969)
- Jay Cutler (American football player, born April 29, 1983)
- Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (banker, politician, born April 29, 1936)
- Justin Thomas (golfer, born April 29, 1993)
- Tammi Terrell (musician, singer, songwriter, born April 29, 1945)
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (diplomat, politician, born April 29, 1968)
- Henri Poincaré (astronomer, engineer, mathematician, philosopher, philosopher of science, physicist, researcher, topologist, university teacher, writer, born April 29, 1854)
- Rocio Carrasco (TV debater, television presenter, born April 29, 1977)
- Crystal Harris (Playboy Playmate, model, singer, born April 29, 1986)
- Jürgen Vogel (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, manufacturer, screenwriter, singer, television actor, born April 29, 1968)
- Pratik Gandhi (actor, born April 29, 1989)
- Steve Blum (actor, entrepreneur, screenwriter, voice actor, born April 29, 1960)
- Jean Rochefort (actor, audiobook narrator, consultant, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1930)
- Fumihiko Tachiki (actor, dub actor, narrator, radio personality, seiyū, born April 29, 1961)
- Chūya Nakahara (poet, tanka poet, translator, writer, born April 29, 1907)
- Raja Ravi Varma (artist, creator, painter, born April 29, 1848)
- Taylor Cole (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born April 29, 1984)
- Michael "Bully" Herbig (film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, born April 29, 1968)
- Anggun (actor, philanthropist, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, television personality, born April 29, 1974)
- Fares Fares (actor, film actor, television actor, born April 29, 1973)
- Anne-Sophie Lapix (journalist, news presenter, television presenter, born April 29, 1972)
- Darby Stanchfield (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born April 29, 1971)
- Zubin Mehta (conductor, music director, born April 29, 1936)
- Pierre Woodman (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, photographer, pornographic actor, born April 29, 1963)
- Anita Dobson (actor, film actor, singer, born April 29, 1949)
- Michael Alig (promoter, born April 29, 1966)
29th of April 1944 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 29, 1944
News of Food; Reduction in Point Value of Margarine Allows More Meat in Menus for Week
Date: 29 April 1944
By JANE HOLT
Jane HOLT
DNB BELIEVED VICTIM; German News Agency May Have Been Hit in U.S. Attack
Date: 30 April 1944
SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD; Fox to Do Army Life Story of Commando Kelly -- Swedish Film in Premiere Today
Date: 29 April 1944
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Florida Inventor Wins a Patent For New Variety of Orange Tree; Others of the 475 Issued in Week Cover Planes, Boats, Gasoline, Synthetic Oils and Electronic Microscopes NEWS OF PATENTS
Date: 29 April 1944
From a Staff Correspondent
TELEVISION SHOWN TO 200 PUBLISHERS; G.E. Studios in Schenectady Demonstrate Methods for Handling Spot News Events SWIFT GROWTH PREDICTED First Post-War Receivers Will Probably Cost About $200, Engineer Tells Visitors
Date: 29 April 1944
By JACK GOULDSpecial to THE NEW TIMES
ABSIE GOES ON AIR TODAY; U.S. Radio Station in Europe to Reach Nazi-Dominated Folk
Date: 30 April 1944
MARIN, AT 73, FLED FRANCE IN DISGUISE; Veteran Leader of Right Says Almost All Frenchmen Are Behind de Gaulle
Date: 30 April 1944
By E.C. DANIELBy Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
E. DANIELBy
OWI TELLS ITS ROLE IN KENT COOPER TALK; Federal Agency Says It Had No Part in Australia's Ban
Date: 30 April 1944