2023-06-24 22:52:16
Under Sunday, June 25, the book of history records, among other things:
1183: In the Peace of Constance, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa recognized the Lombard League of Cities and gave the cities the regalia (sovereignty rights reserved for the ruler) within their walls.
1483: The Duke of Gloucester can be identified as Richard III. to be proclaimed king of England. After the death of his brother Edward IV, he had his son Edward V taken into his power and murdered in the Tower of London (Richard III is the last Plantagenet in the male line).
1848: In Prussia, Rudolf von Auerswald forms a new government including several members of the Frankfurt National Assembly.
1903: Switzerland decides to subsidize the nursing training of the Red Cross Service. In return, the Red Cross must make two-thirds of its medical personnel available to the Swiss army in the event of mobilization.
1918: The Austro-Hungarian troops returned to their starting positions on the Piave without any significant losses. This ended the last major offensive against the Italians.
1923: Manuel de Falla’s opera “Master Pedro’s Puppet Show” has its private premiere in Princess Polignac’s Paris salon.
1933: Joseph Goebbels explains to NSDAP members that the revolution in Germany will not be over until the party owns the entire state.
1938: Poet Douglas Hyde is elected first President of the Republic of Ireland (until 1945).
1938: The German Nazi rulers had all Catholic student fraternities dissolved.
1938: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ratifies the law that bans child labor and stipulates minimum wages and a maximum weekly working time of 44 hours.
1948: Berlin Blockade: The first US planes with food for the western sectors land in the city.
1948: In West Germany, the legal framework for a social market economy and freedom of trade was created with the “Principles for management and price policy after the monetary reform”.
1948: The International Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEJ) is founded in Paris.
1948: The American heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis, defeats his challenger Joe Walcott and thus defends his title for the 25th time.
1978: Argentina wins the World Cup after beating the Netherlands 3-1 in the final in Buenos Aires.
1993: In Canada, a woman takes over as head of government: 46-year-old lawyer Kim Campbell replaces Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
1993: The green alternatives change their name to “Die Grünen” and adopt a green “G” as their new logo.
1993: As the successor to the resigned Björn Engholm, the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Rudolf Scharping, will become the new party leader of the German Social Democrats.
2003: In the West African civil war country Liberia, insurgents storm the capital Monrovia to force the dictator Charles Taylor to resign.
birthdays: Franz Domes, Austria trade unionists and politicians; President of the Chamber of Labor for Vienna and Lower Austria; President of the Austrian Chamber of Labor Day (1863-1930); George Orwell, British writer (1903-1950); Werner Jäger, Austria Architect (1913-2002); Sam Francis, US painter (1923-1994); Harry Seidler, Austria/Australia. Architect (1923-2006); Peyo (actually Pierre Culliford), Belgian comic artist (“The Smurfs”) (1928-1992); Udo Samel, German actor (1953); Harald Sicherheitz, Austria screenwriter and director (1958); George Michael (aka Georgios Panayiotou), British pop singer and composer (1963-2016).
days of death: Helmuth von Glasenapp, German philosopher of religion (1891-1963); Paula Busch, German circus director (1894-1973); Josef Rixner, German composer (1902-1973); Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, argent. composer (1916-1983); Hans Hopf, German opera singer (1916-1993); Mona Baptiste, German Trinidad. Actress (1928-1993); Walter H. Hörl, Austria Medics (1945-2013).
name days: Eleonore, Wilhelm, Prosper, Dorothea, Elogius, Wighard, Berta, Burghard, Ella, Nora, Lore, Emil.
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