2023-06-01 22:10:54
Under Friday, June 2, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: The Girondins are expelled from the French Revolutionary Convention and arrested.
1848: The Austrian fortress of Peschiera falls into the hands of the troops of King Charles Albert of Sardinia.
1848: The Prague Slav Congress presents a draft constitution for a united Kingdom of Bohemia, Moravia and Austro-Silesia.
1918: Great fire in Constantinople: The Sultan Selim district, which consisted mainly of wooden houses, is completely destroyed.
1948: Hitler’s personal physician Karl Brandt and the six other German Nazi doctors sentenced to death by a Nuremberg military court on August 20, 1947 are hanged in Landsberg.
1948: In its “London Recommendations”, the London Six-Power Conference proposes the establishment of a West German state.
1953: Elizabeth II, the elder of the two daughters of King George VI, who died in 1952, is crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in London’s Westminster Abbey. The televised broadcast of the lavish ceremony is the first broadcast as part of Eurovision.
1983: Hans Werner Henze’s opera “The English Cat” premieres at the Schwetzingen Festival.
2003: The European Space Agency ESA sends a space probe to Mars for the first time. The so-called “Mars Express” should reach the red planet in December and search for traces of water and life.
birthdays: Tassilo Graf Festetics of Tolna, Austria Officer and General of the Cavalry (1813-1883); Felix Weingartner Noble from Munzberg, Austria. conductor, composer, pianist; 1935-1936 director of the Vienna State Opera (1883-1942); Hans Karl Breslauer, Austria. Actor, film director, screenwriter and novelist (1888-1965); Margot Trooger, German actress (1923-1994); Helga Rabl-Stadler, Austria Entrepreneur (1948); Robert Friedl, Austria Jazz saxophonist and composer (1963).
days of death: Richard Trunk, German composer (1879-1968); Gustav Abel, Austria film architect and set designer (1902-1963); Paul Meissner, Austria painter and graphic artist (1907-1983); Mel Ferrer, US actor (1917-2008); Karl Flanner, Austria Resistance fighters (1920-2013); Bo Diddley, US blues musician (1928-2008); Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Austria behavioral scientists (1928-2018).
name days: Erasmus, Marcellinus, Peter, Armin, Eugen, Stephan, Ephraim, Uldarich, Blandine, Alexander.
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