2024-04-06 22:41:10
On Sunday, April 7th, the book of history records, among other things:
924: Berengar, Margrave of Friuli, grandson of Louis the Pious, made King of Italy in 888, crowned Emperor in 915, is murdered following his defeat by Rudolf of Hochburgund (Arelat).
1509: France declares war on Venice.
1919: The Soviet Republic is proclaimed in Munich, which collapses once more on May 2nd following the invasion of government troops.
1934: Mahatma Gandhi cancels civil disobedience campaign.
1939: Italian troops invade Albania on Good Friday. King Zogu flees to Greece with his family.
1954: After the transfer of sovereign rights to the GDR by the Soviet Union, the German federal government and the Bundestag established the Federal Republic’s claim to sole representation.
1979: In Iran, the former head of government under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Amir Abbas Hoveida, was sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary court and then shot.
1989: One of the largest series of murders in Europe becomes known in the Lainz Hospital in Vienna: Four ward assistants are subsequently arrested on suspicion of having killed numerous elderly patients.
1989: A Soviet nuclear submarine sinks in the North Atlantic off the Norwegian coast following a fire on board. 42 sailors die and 27 are rescued.
1994: After the murder of Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana in Kigali, massacres by soldiers once morest supposed opposition members begin.
1994: The federal government agrees on June 12th as the date for the EU referendum.
1999: In protest once morest the NATO air raids on Yugoslavia, Peter Handke returns the Büchner Prize he was awarded.
2004: More than 40 Iraqis are killed in a US helicopter attack on a mosque in Falluja.
2009: Violent clashes broke out following the communists won the parliamentary elections in Moldova. In the capital Chişinău, supporters of the anti-communist opposition broke into the presidential residence and the parliament building.
Birthdays: Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer (1889-1957); Jo Hanns Rösler, German writer (1899-1966); Johannes Mario Simmel, Eastern. writer (1924-2009); David Frost, British journalist/TV presenter (1939-2013); Francis Ford Coppola, US film director (1939); Gerhard Schröder, German ex-politician, Federal Chancellor 1998-2005 (1944); Makoto Kobayashi, Japan. Physicist; Nobel Prize 2008 (1944); Jackie Chan, Chinese. actor, stuntman and director (1954); Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor (1964); Paula Moltzan, US alpine skier (1994).
Days of death: El Greco (originally Domínikos Theotokópoulos), Greek-Spanish. painter (1541-1614); Jean Baptiste de La Salle, French founder of the order (1651-1719); Golo Mann, German historian and writer (1909-1994); Max Imboden, Switzerland. constitutional lawyer (1915-1969); Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter and sculptor (1927-2004); Seymour Cassel, US actor (1935-2019).
Name days: Johannes Baptist, Hermann, Hagesippus, Burchard, Ursula, Lothar, Juliane, Eberhard.
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