2023-06-26 22:08:05
Under Tuesday, June 27, the book of history records, among other things:
1693: The London bookseller John Dunton brings out the first women’s magazine under the title “The Ladies’ Mercury”.
1713: “Peace of Adrianople”. Sultan Ahmed III confirms the “Peace of Prut” concluded in 1711. Russia and the Ottoman Empire agree to lay down their arms for 25 years.
1743: War of Austrian Succession: At Dettingen am Main, the allied English, Hanoverians and Austrians defeat the French under the Duke of Noailles. (Handel glorified the victory with his “Dettinger Te Deum”.) Bavaria’s Elector Karl Albrecht, who had been crowned Emperor in 1742 as Charles VII, fled his hereditary lands, which came under Austrian administration.
1813: “Convention of Reichenbach”. A secret agreement is concluded between Russia, Prussia and Austria during the wars of liberation, in which Austria commits itself to a coalition for the first time. Emperor Francis I undertakes to declare war on France if certain conditions are not met by July 20th. After Emperor Napoleon I did not respond to the demands at the “Prague Peace Congress”, Austria declared war on France on August 11.
1893: With the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, the economic crisis (“Great Depression”) that had been going on since 1873 spread from Europe to the USA. The consequences are falling prices, a drop in production and high unemployment.
1933: The German National People’s Party and the German State Party decide to dissolve themselves. Reich Economics Minister Alfred Hugenberg (DNVP) announces his resignation.
1948: At the Bucharest conference, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia is expelled from the Cominform. Tito breaks with the USSR.
1948: In Czechoslovakia, the Social Democrats are forced to merge with the Communist Party.
1948: An earthquake hits the Japanese city of Fukui on Hondo, killing more than 5,000 people.
1968: Czechoslovak artists, scientists and athletes publish the “Manifesto of 2,000 Words”, an appeal to continue the democratization process.
1968: Longest National Council debate on an agenda item since the Second Republic came into existence: 14 hours and eight minutes on the tax laws to reduce the 1969 budget deficit.
1968: In Vietnam, the Americans abandon the jungle fortress of Khe Sanh.
1978: The first Polish cosmonaut, Mirosław Hermaszewski, flies into space on a Soviet rocket.
1988: A train crash at Gare de Lyon train station in Paris kills 59 people and injures 40 others.
1988: A two-day summit conference of the EC heads of state and government begins in Hanover. They are committed to the formation of an EC internal market by 1992.
1993: A surprise US missile attack destroys the Iraqi secret service headquarters in Baghdad. Washington justifies the operation, in which five civilians are killed, with references to a planned assassination attempt once morest ex-President George Bush.
1993: During an anti-terror operation by German security forces at the train station in the Mecklenburg town of Bad Kleinen, a police officer and suspected RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams are killed. Contradictory witness statements regarding the course of events lead to a domestic political crisis.
2008: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from day-to-day operations following 33 years at the helm of the software company.
2008: Ombudsman Maria Fekter (ÖVP) will succeed Günther Platter (ÖVP) as Minister of the Interior.
birthdays: Paul von Mauser, German rifle designer (1838-1914); Alja Rachmanova, Russian writer (1898-1991); Horst Brandstätter, German entrepreneur (Playmobil) (1933-2015); Konrad Kujau, German painter, forger of the Hitler diaries (1938-2000); Hubert “Hubsi” Kramar, Austria actor, director and producer (1948); Matthias Hartmann, German theater director; 2009-2014 director of the Burgtheater (1963); Petra Frey, Austria crooner (1978); Marc Eric Terenzi, US pop singer (1978).
days of death: Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (1493-1543); Michelangelo Unterberger, East. painter (1695-1758); Heinrich Zschokke, Switzerland. writer (1771-1848); Joseph “Joe” Jackson, US music manager and father of Michael Jackson (1928-2018).
name days: Hemma, Harald, Ladislaus, Emma, Maximus, Philippine, Cyril, Gerhoch, Aureus, Crescens, Theonest, Heimerad.
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