2023-08-28 22:55:18
Under Tuesday, August 29, the book of history records, among other things:
1533: Despite paying a large ransom, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, was strangled on the orders of the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro, who had captured him in Cajamarca (northern Peru) in November 1532.
1813: The allied Austrians and Russians defeat the French in the Battle of Kulm and Nollendorf; 9,000 French soldiers are captured.
1918: On the western front, the French attacked the Germans on the Aisne with strong forces.
1918: Founding Congress of the Finnish Communist Party.
1938: The imperial jewels (the insignia of the emperors and kings of the Holy Roman Empire) kept in the Viennese treasury since the 18th century are brought to Nuremberg on the instructions of Adolf Hitler, where they are exhibited in the St. Catherine’s Church. In 1945 they were found in a bunker in Nuremberg and brought back to the Hofburg in Vienna in 1946.
1943: In Denmark, the German occupying power declares a state of emergency and takes over all government power. The Danish army is disarmed.
1948: After only five weeks in office, the government of the radical socialist André Marie resigns in France.
1948: In Stockholm, the 17th International Conference of the Red Cross, chaired by Count Folke Bernadotte, decides that the Swiss character of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) should be retained.
1958: The Politburo decides to introduce people’s communes. The aim is to better provide for the population of China and at the same time to help the country achieve economic and military independence.
1968: In Oslo Cathedral, the Norwegian Crown Prince Harald marries his longtime fiancée Sonja Haraldsen, who comes from a middle-class merchant family. The current king (since 1991) had to threaten to abdicate to get the approval of his father, King Olav V, and the parliament for this marriage.
1968: CSSR Deputy Prime Minister Gustáv Husák succeeds Vasil Bilak as Slovak Communist Party leader.
1973: Watergate Scandal: US President Richard Nixon is ordered by Federal Judge John Sirica to release secret tapes from the White House.
1978: End of the joint space flight of the cosmonauts Valeri Bykowski (USSR) and Sigmund Jähn (GDR) on board “Soyuz 31”.
1988: In Burma, Prime Minister U Nu, who was overthrown by the military in 1962, forms a counter-government.
1988: Severe flood disaster in Bangladesh with more than 400 dead.
1993: The Bosnian Croats proclaim a separate state “Herceg-Bosna” and set up their seat of government in the Croatian sector of the Herzegovinian capital Mostar.
2003: A bomb attack in the Iraqi pilgrimage town of Najaf kills nearly 120 people. Among the victims is the leader of the pro-Iranian Shiite Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) party, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. 140 people are injured.
2008: Republican US presidential candidate John McCain is running with a woman. He surprisingly named Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate.
2008: The Italian airline Alitalia files for bankruptcy.
birthdays: Ernst Kreuder, German writer (1903-1972); Robert Merle, French writer (1908-2004); Sir Richard Samuel Attenborough, British film director, actor and producer (1923-2014); Raymond Lewenthal, US composer (naA 1926; 1923-1988); Charles Gray, British actor (1928-2000); Hermann Nitsch, Austria painter and actionist (1938-2022); Karl Markovics, Austria Actor (1963); Meshell Ndegeocello, US musician (1968).
days of death: Max Dauthendey, German writer and painter (1867-1918); Karl Hartl, Austria film director (1899-1978); Erich Lessing, Austria Photographer (1923-2018); Paul Taylor, US dancer and choreographer (1930-2018); James Alexander Mirrlees, British economist (1936-2018).
name days: Sabine, Johannes, Alberich, Beatrix, Theodora, Basilia, Medericus, Bronislawa.
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