2023-07-29 22:55:04
Under Sunday, July 30, the book of history records, among other things:
1893: The Social Democratic Party of Poland is founded with the participation of Rosa Luxemburg. It competes with the Socialist Party founded in 1892 by the later marshal and dictator Józef Piłsudski.
1898: Otto Fürst von Bismarck, the founder of the German Empire in 1871, died at the Friedrichsruh estate at the age of 83.
1923: Egon Erwin Kisch publishes his book “Classical Journalism – Collected Masterpieces of the Newspaper”.
1948: In Hungary, President Zoltán Tildy resigned from his post. The politician from the Small Farmers’ Party and Protestant clergyman is reacting to the arrest of his son-in-law, who the communist-controlled state police has accused of espionage and high treason.
1953: The Soviet Union waived the payment of occupation costs by Austria.
1978: 22 works, including works by Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, are stolen from the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
1983: In Sri Lanka, the government has banned three parties, including the largest Tamil party, the Tamil United Liberation Front. This calls for an autonomous sub-state for the Tamils, who make up 20 percent of the island’s population.
1993: In Geneva, delegations from the Bosnian civil war parties agree on a preliminary draft constitution for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2003: The last VW “Beetle” rolls off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.
2008: After years of flight, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, who was arrested on July 21, is handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. After a partial acquittal that was overturned in 2013 and a conviction in the first instance to 40 years in prison, Karadžić appealed. The UN war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment on March 20, 2019.
2013: The Munich public prosecutor has filed charges of tax evasion against Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeneß. The German football official and entrepreneur is said to have smuggled 3.2 million euros past the tax authorities into a Swiss account. The start of the process is scheduled for spring 2014.
2018: An 18-year-old Austrian is arrested in Florida. The teenager had traveled from Upper Austria to the USA to meet his 15-year-old chat acquaintance there. The two also had sex, which violates the state’s age of consent of 16. After the public prosecutor’s decision not to press charges, the boy was allowed to leave the country in mid-October.
birthdays: Henry Ford, US automobile pioneer (1863-1947); Alfred Weber, German national economist (1868-1958); Henry Moore, British sculptor and graphic artist (1898-1986); Chris Howland, British TV entertainer (1928-2013); Daniel Hechter, French fashion designer (1938); Jean Reno, French actor (1948); Barbara Rett, Austria cultural journalist and presenter (1953); Francis Morgan (“Daley”) Thompson, British athlete (1958); Kate Bush, British pop singer (1958).
days of death: William Penn, English Quaker, founder of the Pennsylvania colony (1644-1718); Otto von Bismarck, Prussia. and German statesman (1815-1898); Umberto Nobile, Italian general and airship designer (1885-1978); Gerda Maurus, Austria actress (no date July 31) (1909-1968); Berthold Beiz, German businessman (Krupp) and rescuer of Galician Jews from the Nazis (1913-2013); Sam Phillips, US record producer (including “discoverer” of Elvis Presley) (1923-2003); Gerhard Jagschitz, Austria historian (1940-2018); Steve Hislop, British Motorcycle Champion (1962-2003).
name days: Ingeborg, Julietta, Peter, Abdon, Inga, Simplicius, Wiltrud, Beatrix, Batho, Hadebrand, Leopold, Ursus.
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