2024-09-20 22:48:37
Under Saturday, September 21, the book of history records, among other things:
1784: In America, the first daily newspaper appears that does not soon go out of business: the “Pennsylvania Packet and General Adviser”.
1799: The Frenchman Philippe Lebon from Brachay is the first to receive a patent for a gas flame device that is a combination between a gas heater and a gas lantern.
1914: The last German soldiers in German New Guinea lay down their arms.
1919: The Orient Express resumes regular service between Paris and Istanbul.
1924: Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel III opens the first autostrada between two cities, the 48 km long Milan-Varese route.
1939: Romanian Prime Minister Călinescu is murdered by the fascist Iron Guard.
1944: In Italy, the British conquer Rimini. As part of the withdrawal from southeastern Europe, the German troops complete the evacuation of the Peloponnese.
1949: The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing decides to establish the People’s Republic of China, which is solemnly proclaimed on October 1 by Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Chairman of the Communist Party, at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the southern main portal of the former Imperial Palace.
1959: Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky brings the South Tyrol problem before the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
1964: The Mediterranean island of Malta, a British crown colony since 1814, becomes independent. The Commonwealth state becomes a republic ten years later.
1999: Severe earthquake in Taiwan with about 2,000 deaths.
1999: After almost two years, a New York appeals court has lifted the confiscation of Egon Schiele’s paintings, “Portrait of Wally” and “Dead City III”, from the Leopold Collection.
Birthdays: Hans Hartung, German-French painter (1904-1989); Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian president (1909-1972); Slam (Leroy Elliot) Stewart, US jazz musician (1914-1987); Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (1924-1957); Leonard Cohen, Canadian songwriter and writer (1934-2016); Susan Fleetwood, British actress (1944-1995); Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician; Prime Minister 2006-2007 and 2012-2020 (1954-2022); Giovanni Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (confectionery) (1964).
Deaths: Virgil, Roman poet (70-19 BC); Hans Backofen (Backoffen), German sculptor (around 1470-1519); Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl mussel farmer (1858-1954); Michael Harari, former Israeli secret agent (1927-2014); Günter Kunert, German writer (1929-2019); Dieter Knall, Austrian Evangelical Lutheran bishop of Transylvanian origin (1930-2019); Paul Tiedemann, German handball player and coach (1935-2014).
Name days: Matthew, Jonah, Maura, Gerulf, Deborah, Iphigenia, Lawrence, Mark, Castor.
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