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29/4/2019The assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation approved the new Copa del Rey format, expanding the competition to 125 and changing all rounds to a single-match format until the semi-finals
29/4/2014Cristiano Ronaldo surpasses the goal total for a single UEFA Champions League season, with his first strike in Real Madrid CF's semi-final second leg at FC Bayern München taking his campaign tally to 15. The Portuguese international entered the last four with 14 goals in this season's competition, level with the record held by his FC Barcelona counterpart Lionel Messi. Ronaldo had equalled Messi – and, simultaneously, ex-AC Milan forward José Altafini's 51-year European Cup record – in the quarter-final first leg against Borussia Dortmund. Additionally, this is his 50th Champions League goal in 50 games in the competition.
29/4/201323 year-old Gypriot pole-vaulter Marianna Zachariadi, dies of Hodgkin's lymphoma, a condition she had been diagnosed with in 2011. She had won silver in pole vault at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, where she made a national record with 4,45m.
29/4/1999Scotland defeat Germany 1-0 (Harrison) in Bremen for the first time in 40 years
29/4/1998Panionios beats Panathinaikos 1-0 at the final of the Greek Cup at Karaiskaki Stadium, winning their first professional title. The “golden” goal is scored by Dimitris Nalitzis at 53’ with a header
29/4/1996Tae Kwon Do athlete Maria Gouroufidou is killed in Belgium when the bus carrying the greek Tae Kwon Do team capsizes
29/4/199510 days after the Greek Cup final (where Panathinaikos defeated AEK 1-0) the match referee Filippos Bakas is beaten up by hooligans
29/4/1993The whole national football team of Zambia perishes when their plane crashes near the coast of Libreville, South Guinea shortly after take off
29/4/1990Stephen Hendry beats Jimmy White 18-12 and becomes the youngest world champion in snooker (21 years and 106 days old)
29/4/1970Chelsea beat Leeds 2-1 in overtime at the English FA Cup final. The first match ended with a draw (2-2) and for the first time a rematch was played in order to determine the winner
29/4/1933Everton win the English FA Cup after beating Manchester City 3-0. This was the first first English FA Cup final in which players wore numbered shirts. Everton wore 1 to 11 and Manchester City had 12 to 22

 

             
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