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1408: The king of Naples, Ladislaus of Anjou, conquers Rome.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers let a hot air balloon (“Montgolfière”) rise for the first time near Annonay in France.
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I has the so-called Pillersdorfsche (“Octroyed”) constitution promulgated for the hereditary lands. Pillersdorf was worked out.
1898: The USA intervened on the side of the revolutionaries in the Cuban liberation struggle once morest the Spaniards in order to bring the island under their economic and military control following the Spanish defeat.
1918: Franz Schreker’s opera “Die Gezeichten” premieres in Frankfurt am Main.
1933: A German Nazi law limits the proportion of Jewish pupils and students to a maximum of 1.5 percent in each school or faculty.
1938: The German philosopher Martin Buber, who emigrated in March, is taking on a professorship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1943: The German Nazi rulers decreed that Jews, “first degree half-breeds” and gypsies are not German citizens.
1948: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru announces a strictly neutral course in his country’s foreign policy.
1983: The Hamburg magazine “Stern” presented the alleged Hitler diaries at a press conference. On May 6, they turned out to be fakes by the painter Konrad Kujau.
1988: In the Polish city of Bydgoszcz (Bydgoszcz), transport workers went on strike.
1988: A US submarine explodes off the Florida coast, injuring 89 sailors, some seriously. Three are missing.
1988: Agreement between the social partners on more flexible shop closing times: The one-year trial operation provides for the shops to remain open either during the weekday until 8 p.m. on a working day or until 5 p.m. on one Saturday of the month.
1988: The Ukrainian-born John (Iwan) Demjanjuk, former concentration camp guard in Treblinka (“Ivan the Terrible”), is sentenced to death by a special Israeli court for mass murder. (The verdict is overturned in 1993 for lack of clear evidence of his identity.)
1998: In Spain, toxic sewage from a ruptured catchment tank at a pyrite mine near Seville is causing an environmental catastrophe.
2003: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela and chair of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League, has been sentenced to five years in prison on 43 counts of fraud and 25 counts of theft. In 2004, the sentence was reduced to three and a half years.
2018: The echo is over: After weeks of debate regarding the honor for the rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang, the music award will be abolished, as the German Federal Association of the Music Industry has announced. He is reacting to the outrage over the award of the rap album “Jung, Brutal, Gutaussehend 3”, which has been criticized as anti-Semitic. As a result, numerous artists had returned their echoes in protest.
birthdays: Camilla Horn, German actress (1903-1996); Earl Bostic, US jazz musician (1913-1965); Astrid Varnay, US soprano (1918-2006); Cy Twombly, US artist (1928-2011); Tony Christie, British singer (1943); Raphaël Varane, French soccer player (1993).
days of death: Harald Kreutzberg, German dancer/choreographer (1902-1968); Haimo Wisser, Austria Composer/Writer (1952-1998).
name days: Markus, Erwin, Franka, Armin, Hermann, Heribald, Bernhard, Basilius, Floribert, Philo.
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