2023-06-15 22:08:58
Under Friday, June 16, the book of history records, among other things:
1868: The 14th Amendment of the American Constitution guarantees civil rights to ex-slaves.
1903: Henry Ford founds the “Ford Motor Company” in Detroit.
1938: The caricaturist and painter George Grosz, deprived of his citizenship by the Nazis as the “worst representative of degenerate art”, is naturalized in the USA.
Chinese bandits hijack a commercial airliner for the first time on a flight from Macau to Hong Kong. After a shootout on board, the machine crashes, the only survivor is the gang leader.
1948: The National Council passes the House Reconstruction Act.
1953: In East Berlin, construction workers go on strike in protest at an increase in labor standards.
1958: Probable date of execution – according to other sources 30.6. – the leader of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, Prime Minister Imre Nagy and General Pál Maléter. The day was never officially confirmed.
1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to be launched into Earth orbit in Vostok-6.
1963: In a joint motion for a resolution, the parliamentary groups SPÖ and FPÖ declare the return of Otto Habsburg-Lorraine undesirable.
1983: The Supreme Soviet elects the new party leader and former KGB chief Yuri Andropov to succeed Leonid Brezhnev as head of state of the USSR.
1983: Pope John Paul II begins eight-day visit to Poland.
1993: A beauty male beats seven competitors in a beauty pageant in Australia.
2008: Under pressure from the party presidency, Alfred Gusenbauer resigns as chairman of the SPÖ and is replaced by Werner Faymann, but remains chancellor until the autumn elections.
2013: The Austrian underwater pioneer and marine researcher Hans Hass dies in Vienna at the age of 94. The zoologist’s insights into the underwater world opened up a completely unknown universe to a wide audience. With his books, films and lectures he became a legend.
birthdays: Filippo Palizzi, Italian painter (1818-1899); Gustav V, King of Sweden (1858-1950); Ernst Stankovski, Austria. actor (1928-2022); Joyce Carol Oates, US writer (1938); Federica Mogherini, Italian politician (1973); Daniel Brühl, German actor (1978).
days of death: Sigrid Onegin, German opera singer (1891-1943); Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (1896-1958); Pál Maláter, Hungarian Major General (1917-1958); John Robert Whiting, British playwright (1917-1963); Hans Strotzka, Austria psychologist (1917-1994); Hans Hass, Austria marine explorer (1919-2013); Carlos Martinez Rivas, nicarag. poet (1924-1998); Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestwensky, Russian conductor (1931-2018).
name days: Benno, Luitgard, Justina, Quirinus, Franz, Julietta, Kunigunde, Gebhard, Christiane.
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