2024-07-28 22:25:25
On Monday, July 29, the history books recorded the following:
1644: Pope Urban VIII died in Rome, his 21-year term being the culmination of a Baroque pontificate characterized by a profound understanding of art and patronage. (Cardinal Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, who called himself the “Innocent X”, was elected as his successor after a fierce battle with his predecessor’s supporters.)
1809: The Freikorps of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick conquered Halberstadt.
1899: The first Hague Peace Conference ended with the decision to establish the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in The Hague.
1914: The Tsar ordered the full mobilization of the Russian army.
1934: Kurt Schuschnigg becomes Chancellor of Austria and begins to form a new government after his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuß was murdered four days earlier in an attempted Nazi coup in Austria.
1944: Soviet forces reached the Gulf of Riga near Tacum and cut off German Army Group North in Courland.
1959: Hawaii participates in elections as a U.S. state for the first time.
1964: Congolese rebels form against the government in Albertville.
1974: Eight German children and caregivers died when a bridge collapsed in the Kitzloch Gorge near Tuxenbach (Zel am See, Salzburg).
1984: The 23rd Summer Olympics, boycotted by the Eastern European Bloc (except Romania), opened in Los Angeles.
Year 1999: Chinese authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Li Hongzhi, founder of the Falun Gong cult in New York.
Birthday: Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (1854-1932); Booth Tarkington, American writer (1869-1946); August Strahm, German writer (1874-1915); Ernst Reuter, German politician (Social Democratic Party) (1889-1974); Ludwig Weber, Oriental Singer (1899-1974); Ron Sommer (also known as Aaron Lebovich) ), German business manager (1949).
Days to death: Urban VIII, Pope of Italy (1568-1644); Franz Xaver Mozart, Eastern composer (1791-1844); Herbert Marcuse, German-American Social philosopher (1898-1979); Erich Kestner, German writer (1899-1974); Wanda Wasilewska, Polish writer (1905-1964); Dorothy ·Crawford Hodgkin, British chemist; 1964 Nobel Prize (1910-1994); Richard Piatti, Eastern statesman and physician; 1974-1986 President of the Medical Association (1927-2014).
Name day: Martha, Beatrix, Olaf, Ladislaus, Felix, Faustinus, Lucilla, Ingonde, Flora, William, Urban, Wolf .
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