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WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has been criticized for appearing to have pre-informed regarding questions at the press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. Biden has been spotted making detailed notes at press events in the past, conservative news outlet Fox News noted. This time, however, the president took it a step further by prescribing journalists’ questions, Fox alleged.

1738: Pope Clement XII. pronounces a ban on Freemasonry in the papal bull “In eminenti apostolatus specula”. “The development of these supposed secret societies must be stopped in order to protect the Catholic world from the associated risks or even their destruction”.
1788: Maryland becomes the 7th state of the United States.
1838: The chemist Carl Hornemann founds the ink and paint factory “Carl Hornemann” in Hanover. In 1863 the chemist Günther Wagner joined the company as head of production and acquired the company. Wagner has the “Pelikan” from his family coat of arms used on all products for clear identification and has it officially registered as one of the first trademarks in Germany.
1908: After the assassination of Count Andreas Potocki, Emperor Franz Joseph appointed Michael Bobrzyński, a professor from Kraków, as governor of Galicia.
1918: The Serb Gavrilo Princip, murderer of the couple heir to the Austrian throne (Sarajevo 1914), dies of tuberculosis in the Theresienstadt prison hospital at the age of 24.
1923: Wembley Stadium opens in London. 200,000 people crowd into the stadium, which has 127,000 seats. More than 900 visitors are injured in the panic that ensues.
1928: The former leader of the communist Soviet Republic in Hungary, Béla Kun, who entered Hungary under a false name, is arrested in Vienna (deported to Soviet Russia in July).
1943: Household items made of metal can only be obtained in Germany in exchange for special purchase vouchers.
1948: In a memorandum to the London conference, Yugoslavia raised territorial claims to parts of Carinthia and Styria and demanded reparations from Austria.
1958: The USSR and the FRG agree that all Germans who held German citizenship on June 21, 1941 and are on Soviet territory can return to Germany.
1958: The peace treaty of September 8, 1951 between Japan and the USA and 47 other countries comes into force.
1958: The World Bank grants Austria a loan of 10.7 million US dollars.
1958: Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party premieres at the Arts Theater in Cambridge.
1963: Federal President Adolf Schärf, who is supported by the SPÖ, is re-elected with 55.4 percent of the votes. 40.6 percent vote for the ÖVP candidate, former Chancellor Julius Raab, and four percent for the ex-gendarmerie general Josef Kimmel, who was nominated by the European federalists. The FPÖ did not issue an election recommendation, the KPÖ called on its supporters to re-elect Schärfs.
1973: A munitions train loaded with 7,000 high-explosive bombs for the Vietnam War explodes in San Francisco Bay in California, injuring 59 people, some seriously.
1983: Argentina’s military junta officially declares 30,000 “disappeared” (victims of repression since the 1976 coup) dead.
1988: Official opening of the new building of the Austrian State Archives in Vienna-Erdberg. Today the house houses the general management, the restoration workshop, the central library of the state archive, the archive departments of the general administrative archive, the archive of the republic, the war archive and the finance and court chamber archive.
1993: The entire national soccer team of the African state of Zambia dies in a plane crash.

birthdays: James Monroe, US President (1758-1831); Franz Hinterstoisser, Austria officer, military writer, pilot and pioneer of Austrian aviation; 1901 Foundation of the “Vienna Aero Club” (today: Austrian Aero Club) together with Viktor Silberer and Camillo Castiglioni (1863-1933); Oskar Schindler, German industrialist (1908-1974); Rudolf Fischer, Austria politician (1908-2001); Horst-Eberhard Richter, German psychoanalyst (1923-2011); Yves Klein, French painter (1928-1962); Eugene Merle Shoemaker, US geologist (1928-1997); Walter Schmidinger, Austria actor, director (1933-2013); Gerlinde Locker, East. Actress (1938); Terry Pratchett, British fantasy author (1948-2015); Markus Hengstschläger, Austria medics; Geneticist (1968).
days of death: Prince Michael Kutuzov, Russian general (1745-1813); Ludwig Tieck, German poet and translator (1772-1853); Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (1893-1973); János Starker, US-Hungarian cellist (1924-2013).
name days: Ludwig, Pierre, Hugo, Peter, Vitalis, Theobald, Theodora, Valeria, Paulus, Jason, Gerfried.