2024-01-13 23:11:30
On Sunday, January 14th, the book of history records, among other things:
1784: The ratification of the peace treaty with England formally ends the American War of Independence.
1814: In the Peace of Kiel, Denmark had to cede Helgoland to Great Britain and Norway to Sweden.
1914: Assembly line production begins for the first time in Henry Ford’s car factory. This drastically shortens the production time.
1944: British Prime Minister Churchill describes the Oder-Neisse line as Poland’s final western border.
1969: The ringleader of the great mail train robbery of August 8, 1963, Bruce Reynolds, is sentenced to 25 years in prison in Aylesbury.
1969: An explosion on the world’s largest warship, the nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier “Enterprise”, leaves 27 dead and 85 injured off Hawaii.
1974: The Ministry of Commerce’s regulation on one car-free day a week comes into force.
1989: The Final Act is adopted at the CSCE follow-up conference in Vienna. In all areas, the document goes far beyond the decisions of the CSCE conference in Helsinki in 1975.
1994: The Presidents of Russia and the USA, Yeltsin and Clinton, conclude a treaty to change the targeting programming of their long-range missiles.
2004: The management of the Gänserndorf Safari Park files for bankruptcy. A restructuring concept submitted to the state of Lower Austria was rejected.
2004: Óscar Berger Perdomo becomes president of Guatemala.
Birthdays: Joseph Losey, US film director (1909-1984); Herbert Feurer, former Austrian Football player (1954).
Days of death: Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian-Swiss. “Cigar King” (1906-1994); Robert Lembke, German journalist/TV presenter (1913-1989); Aldo van Eyck, Dutch. architect (1918-1999); Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (1920-2009); Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theater director (1933-1999).
Name days: Gottfried, Rainer, Felix, Bernus, Otto, Hilarius, Engelmar.
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