2024-03-08 23:35:42
On Saturday, March 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1959: The first Barbie doll, created by American designer Ruth Handler, is presented at the “American Toy Fair” in New York City.
1959: End of an unsuccessful army revolt in Mosul, Iraq.
1969: During an Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel at the Suez Canal, Egyptian Chief of General Staff Moneim Riad is fatally wounded.
1989: The Soviet Union declares its willingness to recognize the International Court of Justice as a decision-making body in human rights issues in the future.
1999: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrives in Italy on a state visit, the first by an Iranian head of state to the West since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
2004: After President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was removed from power at the instigation of the USA and France, Gérard Latortue became Haiti’s provisional head of government.
2019: Elizabeth T. Spira, an icon of TV entertainment in Austria, dies. The journalist and documentary filmmaker, who was 76 years old, made a name for herself with her dating show “Love Stories and Marriage Matters” and the “Everyday Stories” on ORF.
Birthdays: Amerigo Vespucci, Italian sailor and explorer (1451 or 1454-1512); Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau, French journalist/revolutionary (1749-1791); Peter Altenberg, Eastern writer (1859-1919); Frank Arnau, Swiss-German. writer (1894-1976); Lola Müthel, German actress (1919-2011); Peter Scholl-Latour, German-French. Journalist and writer (1924-2014); Marie Cardinal, French writer (1929-2001); Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first man in space (1934-1968); Juliette Binoche, French actress and Oscar winner (1964); Julia Mancuso, former US ski racer (1984).
Days of death: Karl Anton Wolf, Eastern sculptor (1908-1989); Earl W. Sutherland, US physiologist; Nobel Prize 1971 (1915-1974); Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (1917-1994); Charles Bukowski, US writer (1920-1994); Elizabeth T. Spira; east. Television legend (1942-2019).
Name days: Franziska, Bruno, Reinhard, Prudentius, Dominic, Barbara, Gregor, Katharina Eugen.
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