2024-01-08 23:41:00
On Tuesday, January 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1449: The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI. Dragases of the Paleologian dynasty, ascends the throne. (John VIII’s brother falls in Constantinople in 1453 fighting the Turkish conquerors.)
1804: The play “The Schroffenstein Family” by Heinrich von Kleist premieres in Graz.
1929: Dr. Alexander Fleming treats his assistant Stuart Craddock with a penicillin solution for the first time at St. Mary’s Hospital in London.
1959: A newly built dam bursts near Ribadelago in northwestern Spain. The masses of water drag 140 sleeping people to their deaths.
2009: Somali pirates release the Saudi Arabian supertanker “Sirius Star” that was hijacked in the Indian Ocean on November 15, 2008. A ransom of three million US dollars is said to have been paid.
Birthdays: Pope Gregory XV (1554-1623); Juliane Kay, Eastern writer (1904-1968); Kenny Clarke, US jazz musician (1914-1985); Karl Moser, auxiliary bishop of Vienna (1914-1991); Hans Lebert, Eastern writer (1919-1993); Heiner Müller, German playwright (1929-1995); Mary Roos, German pop singer (1949); Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala. Human rights campaigner, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 (1959).
Days of death: Herod I the Great of Judea (73-4 BC); Hans Bredow, German radio pioneer (1879-1959); Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (1891-1979); Norberto Bobbio, Italian political scientist/philosopher (1909-2004); Norbert Nestler, Eastern Artist (1942-2014).
Name days: Julian, Eberhard, Adrian, Weriand, Martial, Alice, Alexia, Beate, Pascasia, Petrus, Johann.
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