2023-12-26 23:18:31
On Wednesday, December 27th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: The “Law on the Fundamental Rights of the German People” passed on December 21st by the Constituent Assembly in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche is proclaimed.
1918: The city of Posen (Poznań) comes under Polish administration.
1958: The European Payments Union (EPU) will be replaced by the European Monetary Agreement (EWA), and on December 29th the currencies of ten European countries will become freely convertible.
1978: Three years after the death of the dictator Franco, Spain receives a democratic constitution as a constitutional hereditary monarchy. The constitution was approved in a referendum on December 6th by 88 percent of those eligible to vote.
1993: Eight Austrian tourists and eight Egyptians are injured, some seriously, in an attack by Islamist terrorists in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
2008: In response to the ongoing rocket attacks against settlements in southern Israel, the Israeli Air Force is carrying out heavy air strikes against the Gaza Strip controlled by the radical Islamic Hamas, killing at least 225 Palestinians.
Birthdays: Tito Schipa, Italian opera singer (1888-1965); Karl Berg, former archbishop of Salzburg (1908-1997); Walter Romberg, German politician; Finance Minister of the GDR 1990 (1928-2014); Gérard Depardieu, French actor (1948); Johann Georg Schelling, former Austrian Minister of Finance 2014-2017 (1953).
Days of death: Anton Dreher, Eastern Industrialist (brewer) (1810-1863); Carl Böser, Austrian chess player (1874-1918); Enric Bernat Fontlladosa, Spanish entrepreneur; founder of “Chupa Chups” (1923-2003); Hal Ashby, US film director (1927-1988); Sir Alan Bates, British actor (1934-2003); Miúcha (also known as Heloísa M. Buarque de Hollanda), Brazilian. Singer (1937-2018).
Name days: Johannes, Fabiola, Hugo, Rüdiger, Theodore, Christina, Theophanes, Stephanus, Walto.
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