2023-08-03 22:21:23
Under Friday, August 4, the book of history records, among other things:
1578: King Sebastian of Portugal, who invaded Morocco with his army, fell in the battle of Ksar-el-Kebir fighting the Moors.
1903: After a five-day conclave, the Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, succeeds the late Pope Leo in the seventh ballot
XIII. chosen. He takes the name Pius X. (The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph had the Cracow Cardinal Jan Puzyna veto the election of Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla.)
1918: International statistics, first published, put total casualties of 11 million dead and 19 million wounded through July.
1953: June 17 is designated by federal law as the “Day of German Unity”.
1958: The Austrian Himalaya expedition under Heinrich Roiss conquers the 7,400 meter high Haramosh.
1978: The European Convention to Combat Terrorism comes into force.
1983: In Italy, Bettino Craxi became the first socialist to become prime minister after the war.
1993: Hundreds of thousands of Belgians and many foreign heads of state bid farewell to King Baudouin, who died in the crypt of Notre-Dame de Laeken at the side of his father Leopold III. is laid to rest.
1993: The Italian Parliament adopts the reform of the electoral law, with which the renewal of the political system should begin.
1993: Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is sworn in before the parliament in Tehran for a second five-year term.
2003: A state of emergency is declared in Portugal: 3,000 firefighters fight more than 70 forest fires.
birthdays: Alexander Graf von Mensdorff-Pouilly, first Prince of Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg, east. officer, diplomat and politician; 1864-1866 Minister for Foreign Affairs (1813-1871); René Schickele, Alsace. writer (1883-1940); Ernesto Maserati, Italian industrialist; Founder of the car company of the same name (1898-1975); Claus Holm, German actor (1918-1996); Franz Karl Stanzel, Austria Anglicist and literary scholar (1923); Björn Wirkola, former Norwegian. Ski Jumper (1943); Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer (1943-2017); Mary Decker Slaney, former US track and field athlete (1958); Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish-Dutch model and actor (1968); Olga Neuwirth, Austria female composer (1968).
days of death: Gottfried Silbermann, German organ builder (1683-1753); Rudolf G. Binding, German poet (1867-1938); Frederick C. Robbins, US Physician; Nobel Prize 1954 (1916-2003).
name days: Johann, Rainer, Dominic, Jens, Jan, Sigrid, Perpetua, Bernhard, Tertullinus, Maria M.
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