2023-08-20 22:09:11
Under Monday, August 21, the book of history records, among other things:
1703: The Turkish Sultan and Caliph Mustafa II is overthrown by a Janissary uprising. Ahmed III ascends the throne.
1848: The fourth uprising in Vienna against the reduction of workers’ wages is bloodily suppressed by the city guard. 22 people die and around 300 are injured.
1918: A major British attack on Arras in northern France pushes back the German front considerably.
1948: A provisional central government for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is formed in Pyongyang.
1963: South Vietnam is placed under martial law by the regime of the Catholic dictator Ngô Đinh Dìêm, numerous Buddhist temples are stormed by the military.
1968: The Czechoslovak population is desperately defending itself against the Warsaw Pact troops, who unexpectedly marched in during the night and brought the leading reform politicians of the “Prague Spring”, led by party leader Alexander Dubček, under their power.
1983: Philippine opposition politician Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila airport on his return from US exile.
1983: Premiere of Jerry Herman’s musical “La Cage aux Folles” (“A Cage Full of Fools”) at the Palace Theater in New York.
1988: A severe earthquake in the Himalayas claims around 1,000 lives.
1993: US President Bush brings Secretary of State James Baker back to the White House as chief of staff.
1993: German finance minister Waigel is threatening the failure of the European economic and monetary union if the future European Central Bank is not set up in Frankfurt am Main.
1998: The first construction cartel process in Korneuburg ends with 14 guilty verdicts.
2003: Argentina’s parliament repeals amnesty laws for crimes committed under the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
2013: According to the opposition, more than 1,300 people have died in a use of poison gas in the Syrian civil war in the suburbs of Damascus. The US government blames the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad for the operation and announces international consequences.
2013: US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking confidential documents to Wikileaks.
birthdays: Giuseppe Guarneri, Italian violin maker (1698-1744); Jules Michelet, French historian (1798-1874); Archduke Rudolf, Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince (1858-1889); Edgar Conrad Bonjour, Swiss historian (1898-1991); Art Farmer, US jazz musician (1928-1999); Lady Janet Baker, British singer (1933); Mohammed VI, King of Morocco (1963); Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer (1988).
days of death: Dimitrie Cantemir, Prince of Moldova, Romanian. Humanist (1673-1723); James Wilson, US politician (1742-1798); Albert v. Chamisso, German writer (1781-1838); Markos Botsares, Greek freedom fighter (1790-1823); Stevan Hristić, Yugoslav. composer (1885-1958); Hans Günther Adler, Austro-Brit. Writer of Czech origin (1910-1988); Sidney “Sid” Bernstein, US record producer (1918-2013); Benigno Aquino, Philippines. politician (1932-1983); Tatiana Troyanos, US opera singer (1938-1993).
name days: Pius, Gracia, Adolf, Maximilian, Balduin, Johanna, Pia, Thaddäus, Hartwig, Josef.
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