2023-12-05 23:25:39
On Wednesday, December 6th, the book of history records, among other things:
1918: In Alsace-Lorraine, the state parliament opts for reintegration into France.
1923: In a message to the US Congress, President Calvin Coolidge emphasized his country’s interest in alleviating European differences and helping to resolve international payment problems, particularly the issue of German reparations.
1923: Hans Fallada’s novel “Anton and Gerda” is published by Rowohlt-Verlag.
1938: The governments of France and Germany solemnly recognize the common border as definitive. The German Foreign Minister Joachim v. was there to sign the declaration of non-aggression. Ribbentrop traveled to Paris.
1948: The Peronists win a strong majority in the elections to Argentina’s Constituent National Assembly.
1953: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion resigns from office for health reasons.
1968: FRG and GDR agree to expand German-German trade by making overdrafts more dynamic.
1973: The new US Vice President Gerald Ford, successor to Spiro Agnew, who was forced to resign due to a corruption scandal, is sworn in and inaugurated into office. The Republican is the first unelected Vice President of the USA. (In 1974 he became US President himself as a result of Richard Nixon’s resignation following the Watergate scandal).
1978: Referendum in Spain: Overwhelming majority in favor of the kingdom’s new democratic-parliamentary constitution.
1983: A car bomb explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut claims 14 lives.
1983: In London, the Gospel of Henry the Lion, created in Helmarshausen in 1175, was bought for the Federal Republic of Germany at a Sotheby’s auction for a record sum of 230 million schillings. The magnificently decorated work is considered an important example of medieval book art.
1993: At the World Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, athletes from the People’s Republic of China set eleven of 13 world records.
1998: In Venezuela, the victory of the left-wing nationalist and ex-coup leader Hugo Chávez as president is being celebrated.
2008: After the death of a 15-year-old teenager during a police operation, there were massive riots and demonstrations in Athens and other cities that lasted for months.
Birthdays: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian poet (1478-1529); Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist (1778-1850); Nikolai Ogarev, Russian poet/publicist (1813-1877); Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (1898-1987); Alfred Eisenstaedt, US photographer (1898-1995); Max von Moos, Switzerland. painter (1903-1979); Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, pol. composer (1933-2010); Keke Rosberg, former Finnish racing driver; F1 World Championship 1982 (1948); Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German musician and actor (1948); Oliver Masucci, German actor (1968).
Days of death: August Schleicher, German linguist (1821-1868); Karl Vorländer, German philosopher (1860-1928); George Baklanoff, Russian opera singer (1882-1938); Lucienne Boyer, French singer (1903-1983); César, French sculptor/object artist (1921-1998); Roy Orbison, US singer (1936-1988); Doris Mayer, Eastern Actress (1958-2018).
Name days: Nikolaus, Gertraud, Dionysia, Klaus, Denise, Heike, Peter, Simon, Anna, Josefa, Leondria.
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