2023-04-19 22:19:15
Under Thursday, April 20, the book of history records, among other things:
1828: The French Africa explorer Auguste René Caillié reaches the legendary city of Timbuktu on the Niger bend. Founded in the 11th century, the city was once an Islamic cultural hub and commercial center of West Africa.
1848: The Baden revolutionaries are crushed in the southern Black Forest. The commander of the victorious Baden government troops, Friedrich von Gagern, falls.
1863: The larger-than-life statue of “Augustus of Primaporta” is found in a villa in the Roman district of Prima Porta. It is badly damaged and will be restored later. The statue is a marble copy of a bronze original of the Roman emperor who died in AD 14.
1908: A bomb attack is carried out on the President of Guatemala, Manuel Estrada Cabrera. He is only slightly injured. Twelve army conspirators are executed.
1918: Paul Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn, former Minister of Education and three-time Prime Minister of Austria, dies in Vienna-Döbling.
1933: The first “National Political Educational Institutions” (Napola) were founded in Potsdam, Plön and Köslin as a training ground for the Nazi regime.
1938: In Berlin, in the presence of Hitler, Leni Riefenstahl’s two-part film regarding the 1936 Olympic Games (“Festival of Nations” and “Festival of Beauty”) was premiered, building a bridge to the great propaganda sports festival of the Nazi regime.
1938: Around 18,000 Protestant pastors take an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Few resist government pressure.
1938: The Vienna Regional Court issued a warrant for high treason once morest Otto Habsburg-Lorraine. Habsburg, who formally became a German citizen on March 13, is accused of having acted once morest “Führer, people and fatherland” in his appeal to the Western powers, which he published in the Paris “Petit Parisien” on March 16.
1948: The Chinese National Assembly elects Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) with a large majority as president on the basis of a new constitution and endows him with unlimited powers for the duration of the civil war. Large parts of China are already under communist control.
1953: In the GDR, food prices, especially for meat and meat products, are drastically increased by a government decision.
1953: Marcos Pérez Jiménez, who came to power in a coup in 1952, is elected President of Venezuela.
1968: A Boeing 707 operated by South African Airways (SAA) crashes near Windhoek in South West Africa (Namibia) – 123 dead.
1978: An off-course South Korean passenger plane comes under fire from Soviet fighter jets and is forced to land near the Arctic Circle. Two people are killed.
1983: A Soviet spaceship launched with three cosmonauts goes off course and fails to dock with the Salyut-7 space station.
1983: In Eisenstadt, the WBO trial (Siedlungsgenossenschaft Wohnbau Ost) ends with the conviction of all the accused.
1998: In a letter considered authentic by the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the terrorist group “Red Army Faction” (RAF) announces its dissolution.
2003: The Sars lung disease claims its first political victims in China: Health Minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong lose their offices.
2008: In Paraguay, the 61-year rule of the conservative Colorado Party is coming to an end. The new president will be the former bishop and liberation theologian Fernando Armindo Lugo. He replaces Nicanor Duarte Frutos in office.
birthdays: Napoleon III Bonaparte, Emperor of the French 1852-70 (1808-1873); Heinrich Göbel, US inventor (1818-1893); Joan Miró, Spanish painter (1893-1983); Harold Lloyd, US actor (1893-1971); Lionel Hampton, US jazz musician (1908-2002); Ernest Bour, French conductor (1913-2001); Hans Czettel, Austria politician (1923-1980); Tito Puente, US-amer. Latin jazz musician and composer Puerto Rican. Origin (1923-2000); Georg Eisler, Austria painter (1928-1998); Charles David Keeling, US-Amer. Scientist and climate pioneer (discoverer of the greenhouse gas effect) (1928-2005); Sir John Eliot Gardiner, British conductor (1943); Miranda Kerr, Australia. models (1983).
days of death: Canaletto, Italian painter (1697-1768); Alexander Girardi, Austria folk actors (1850-1918); Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist (1850-1918); Eric Weinert. German writer (1890-1953); Bernard Katz, British biophysicist; Nobel Prize 1970 (1911-2003); Ernst Balluf, Austria painter/graphic artist (1921-2008); Teddy Edwards, US tenor saxophonist (1924-2003); Franz Kröpfl, Burgenland WK President (1951-2013); Tim Bergling, Swedish DJ and producer “Avicii” (1989-2018).
name days: Hildegund, Odette, Oda, Adolar, Wilhelm, Hildegard, Sulpitius, Simon, Theotimus, Ute, Agnes.
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