2024-02-20 23:21:58
On Wednesday, February 21st, the book of history records, among other things:
1384: The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna is founded.
1899: The German-Atlantic Telegraph Society (DAT) is founded.
1919: Bavaria’s Prime Minister Kurt Eisner is murdered in Munich by the ultranationalist Anton Graf Arco-Valley.
1939: The Willi Forst film “Bel Ami” premieres in Berlin.
1974: Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution that allows Tito to be elected president for life.
1979: A new Middle East dialogue begins at Camp David between Israel and Egypt with the participation of the USA.
1984: Due to a go-slow strike by Italian customs officers, more than 1,000 trucks are piled up at the Brenner Pass.
2004: Greens from 32 countries found the European Green Party in Rome.
Birthdays: Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484-1535); Raimondo Count Montecuccoli, imperial general (1609-1680); Elsie Attenhofer, Black actress (1909-1999); Robert Mugabe, former dictator of Zimbabwe (1924-2019); Gert Günther Hoffmann, German actor (1929-1997); Armin Thurnher, Eastern. Journalist/publicist (1949); Jennifer Love Hewitt, US actress and singer (1979).
Days of death: Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician (1867-1919); Georg Jacoby, German film director (1882-1964); César Augusto Sandino, Nicarag. guerrilla leader (1895-1934); Mikhail A. Sholokhov, Soviet writer; Nobel Prize 1965 (1905-1984); Hilde Zadek, German-Eastern soprano (1917-2019); Gertrude Belle Elion, US pharmacologist and biochemist; Nobel Prize 1988 (1918-1999); Donald Edgar “Gus” Backus, US pop singer (1937-2019).
Name days: Petrus, German, Eleonora, Gunthilde, Damian, Randoald, Zacharias, Irene, Georg, Leodegar, Theodor.
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