2023-12-21 23:32:10
On Friday, December 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: In the Battle of Reichshofen, the French Moselle Army defeated the Austrians under General Graf Wurmser.
1808: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 5, C minor, and No. 6, F major (Pastorale) are premiered in Vienna.
1933: The German Reich Court in Leipzig sentenced the Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe to death in the Reichstag fire trial. The communist Reichstag member Ernst Torgler as well as the Bulgarians Georgi Dimitrov (Comintern General Secretary), Blagoi Popov and Wassil Tanew were acquitted.
1938: The physicist Otto Hahn, who succeeded in splitting heavy atomic nuclei for the first time, published a report about it.
1953: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s comedy “An Angel Comes to Babylon” premieres in Munich.
1963: Bloody clashes between Greek and Turkish Cypriots signal the beginning of the civil war on the Mediterranean island, which has been independent since 1960.
1963: The Greek passenger steamer “Lakonia”, which is on a Christmas cruise, catches fire off the island of Madeira.
1988: At the UN in New York, the foreign ministers of Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign an agreement that will end the civil war and foreign intervention in Angola and usher in Namibia’s independence.
1993: Beginning of the murder trial against the film producer, director and ORF employee Helmut Frodl, who is accused of murdering the recording studio owner Fritz Köberl in Budapest. On October 13, 1994, he and his accomplice received life imprisonment. He was released from prison in 2009.
2008: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) must end its civilian mission in Georgia at the turn of the year and withdraw its observers. Russia is preventing the OSCE observer mission from being extended beyond December 31st.
Birthdays: Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (1858-1924); Edgar Varèse, US-French. composer (1883-1965); Giacomo Manzù, Italian sculptor (1908-1991); Max Bill, black Painter, sculptor/architect (1908-1994); Paul Wolfowitz, US politician (1943); Nicolae Timofti, Moldova. lawyer and politician; President 2012-2016 (1948); Margit Schreiner, eastern Writer (1953); Dina Meyer, American. actress (1968); Mario Lang, Eastern Rock Sawyer (1988).
Days of death: Otto Probst, Eastern politician (1911-1978); Hans Koller, Eastern Jazz musician, saxophonist and composer (1921-2003); Talal bin Abdulaziz, Saudi. Prince (1931-2018); Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (1984-2008) (1934-2008); Chico Mendes (born Francisco Alves M. Filho), Brazilian. Rubber tapper, environmentalist, head of the agricultural workers’ union (murdered) (1944-1988).
Name days: Jutta, Marian, Flavian, Berta, Xaveria, Franziska, Judith.
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