2023-07-10 22:09:13
Under Tuesday, July 11, the book of history records, among other things:
1183: After the death of his father Otto I von Wittelsbach, Ludwig I the Kelheimer becomes Duke of Bavaria. (1226 regent, he fell out with Emperor Frederick II and was murdered in 1231).
1533: Pope Clement VII excommunicated the English King Henry VIII, causing his separation from the Roman Church. The Pope refused to approve the king’s divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
1613: The 16-year-old Mikhail Fyodorovich is crowned as the first Tsar of the Romanov family in Moscow’s Uspensky Cathedral.
1708: War of Spanish Succession: Prince Eugene of Savoy and Duke of Marlborough defeat French troops under Duke of Vendôme at Oudenaarde (Audenarde) in East Flanders and take city of Lille.
1903: On the initiative of the British “Royal Cork Yacht Club” a motor boat race (from Cork to Glanmire) takes place for the first time.
1948: In Seoul, the National Assembly, chaired by former exile Prime Minister Syngman Rhee, passed a presidential constitution for South Korea.
1963: Many leading members of the African National Congress (ANC), including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, are arrested in a raid on Liliesleaf Farm in the Rivonia township of Johannesburg.
1968: Sergio Leone’s film “Play Me the Song of Death”, starring Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson, opens in cinemas and becomes a worldwide box office success.
1973: Hard arguments in the National Council because of the UNO City project in Vienna, which was rejected by the ÖVP opposition.
1973: A Brazilian airliner crashed on approach to Paris, killing 122 people.
1978: In Spain, a tanker truck loaded with propylene gas explodes at the Los Alfaques campsite near San Carlos de la Ràpita, south of Tarragona. Almost 200 people are killed.
1983: United British seafarers are refusing to dump radioactive waste into the sea, forcing the government to temporarily halt this form of “disposal” for two years.
1988: Eleven people are killed and 98 others injured in a terrorist attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros in the Aegean Sea.
2003: In the dispute over false information prior to his Iraq campaign, US President George W. Bush blamed the CIA.
2003: A regular bus line is reopened between the warring nuclear powers India and Pakistan.
birthdays: Albert II, Duke of Saxe-Teschen (son-in-law of Empress Maria Theresa, creator of the Vienna Albertina) (1738-1822); Carl Schmitt, German constitutional lawyer (1888-1985); Otto Eduard Hasse, German actor (1903-1978); Ruth Niehaus, German actress (1928-1994); Kurt Klinger, Austria Writer, director, translator (1928-2003); Ernst Jacobi, German actor (1933-2022); Olga Havlová, Czech civil rights activist and First Lady (1933-1996); Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (1943-1983); Pedro Carrasco, Spanish boxer (1943-2001); Leon Spinks, US boxer (1953-2021).
days of death: Moritz of Saxony, German Elector (1521-1553); Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (1527-1593); Lady Barbara Wootton, British sociologist, economist (1897-1988); Michael DeBakey, US cardiac surgeon (1908-2008); Robert Ryan, US actor (1913-1973); Ross MacDonald, US writer (1915-1983); Guy Lafitte, French saxophonist (1927-1998); Panayotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher (1943-1998).
name days: Benedikt, Olga, Pius, Sigisbert, Ludwig, Oliver, Rachel, Helga, Placidus, Hidulf.
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