2023-12-11 23:43:25
On Tuesday, December 12th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: Breakout of the revolution in Hungary: The Hungarians refuse to recognize Franz Joseph I as King of Hungary.
1913: Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in Paris in August 1911, is seized by police in Italy.
1913: The Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II, who had ruled since 1889 and secured the independence of his empire by defeating the Italians in the Battle of Adua in 1896, dies in the new capital he founded, Addis Ababa. His grandson Lidj Jeassu ascends the throne first.
1948: Great Britain introduces compulsory military service for men aged 19 to 26.
1953: American test pilot Charles “Chuck” Yeager is the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound.
1963: Kenya becomes a republic, Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first president, but the country remains in the Commonwealth.
1978: The German freighter “München” sinks near the Azores with 28 people on board.
1988: A train accident in south London kills 33 people and injures 113.
2008: Switzerland has been a member of the Schengen area with the European Union since midnight, where systematic personal controls at the borders have been abolished. However, checks are still possible in suspicious cases, and there will also be goods checks at the borders with Austria, Germany, France and Italy in the future. There will be a transition phase in air traffic until March 2009.
2008: At the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka (December 12th – 14th), siblings Mirna and Dinko Jukić won four medals for Austria in their former home of Croatia.
2013: North Korea officially confirms the execution of leader Kim Jong-un’s uncle for treason. Jang Song-thaek had recently fallen from grace and lost all positions and offices, including the chairmanship of the powerful National Defense Commission. Experts see the execution of Jang, known as the “eminence grise,” as a sign of simmering power struggles within the regime.
2013: The government leadership announces the agreement on a new edition of the red-black coalition.
Birthdays: Eduard Ritter von Uhl, Eastern. lawyer and politician; 1882-1889 Mayor of Vienna (1813-1892); Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (1863-1944); Edward G. Robinson, US actor (1893-1973); Connie Francis (also known as Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero), US singer (1938); Grover Washington Jr., US musician (1943-1999).
Days of death: Françoise de Graffigny, French writer (1695-1758); William I, King of the Netherlands (1772-1843); Menelik II (Menikek II), King of Shewa 1865-1889, Emperor of Ethiopia 1889-1913, founder of the capital Addis Ababa (1844-1913); Theodor Heuss, first president of the Federal Republic of Germany (FDP) (1884-1963); Ozu Yasujirō, Japan. director and screenwriter (1903-1963); Lord Grade, British film and TV producer (1906-1998); Fritz Bock, Eastern Politician (ÖVP) (1911-1993); József Antall, Hungarian historian and politician; 1990-1993 Prime Minister (1932-1993); Tassos Papadopoulos, 2003-2008 President of the Republic of Cyprus (1934-2008); Wilhelm Genazino, German writer (1943-2018).
Name days: Theoderich, Johanna, Franziska, Hartmann, Spiridion, Melchiades, Frank, Amicus, Vizelin.
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