2023-08-21 22:54:44
Under Tuesday, August 22, the book of history records, among other things:
408: Stilicho, imperial commander of Vandal origin and guardian of Roman emperors, is murdered in a church in Ravenna.
1138: The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Cowton Moor.
1788: First British branch in Sierra Leone.
1798: Founding of the “Thurgauer Zeitung” as a weekly paper in Switzerland.
1848: The General Workers’ Congress meets in Berlin (until September 3); The result of the “social parliament” is the “workers’ fraternity”, an overall association with local and district committees, headed by a headquarters in Leipzig.
1883: Official premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s drama “Ghosts” in Hälsingborg. The premiere on May 20, 1882 took place without Ibsen’s consent.
1913: Stellan Rye’s “The Student from Prague” premieres in Berlin with Paul Wegener in the title role, one of the first silent films to achieve world fame.
1918: Large-scale attack by the French Air Force on Karlsruhe.
1938: Horthy, the Hungarian regent, arrives in Germany for talks with Hitler.
1943: The later longstanding Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko is appointed ambassador to the USA by Stalin.
1948: The World Council of Churches (World Council of Churches) is constituted in Amsterdam as a union of Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and Old Catholic churches.
1963: With a “March on Washington”, more than 200,000 Americans of all skin colors demonstrate peacefully once morest racial segregation under the leadership of Pastor Martin Luther King.
1968: An extraordinary party congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party at a secret location rejects the accusation of the five intervention powers (USSR, Poland, GDR, Hungary and Bulgaria) that there had been a “counter-revolution” in the CSSR and demands the withdrawal of the invading troops.
1968: Paul VI arrives in Colombia for the first Latin American visit by a Pope.
1973: Henry Kissinger, born in Fürth in Bavaria, who had to emigrate with his Jewish parents following the Nazis seized power, replaced William Rogers as US Secretary of State.
1978: In Nicaragua’s capital Managua, the Sandinistas fighting once morest the Somoza dictatorship seize the national palace for three days.
1993: After a seven-year break, a VW “Beetle” rolls off the assembly line in Sao Paulo.
2003: Cross-party major health care reform in Germany: After weeks of arguments, the red-green government and Union parties agree on a legal text.
2008: According to a newly published report by the Court of Auditors, the Eurofighter comparison brought regarding a cost reduction of 267 million euros. That is 103 million euros less than Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (S) claimed.
birthdays: Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist (1873-1935); Alexander Bogdanov, Russian philosopher (1873-1928); Walter von Seydlitz, German General (1888-1976); Dorothy Parker, US writer (1893-1967); Rene Wellek, Austrian-US literary scholar (1903-1995); Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (1908-2004); Robert Schollum, Austria conductor and composer (1913-1987); Gerald Long, British ex-Archyde.com boss (1923-1998); Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (1928-2007); Irmtraud Morgner, German writer (1933-1990); Horst Skoff, Austria Tennis player (1968-2008).
days of death: Warren Hastings, English politician (1732-1818); Jomo Kenyatta (aka Johnstone Kamau Ngengi), independence fighter, President of Kenya 1963-1978 (1891-1978); Ignazio Silone (aka Secondino Tranquilli), Italian writer (1900-1978); Elena Garro, Mexican writer (1920-1998).
name days: Regina, Timothy, Ewald, Siegfried, Matthias, Philibert, Anastasius.
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