2024-01-01 23:55:55
On Tuesday, January 2nd, the book of history records, among other things:
1944: US troops land near Saidor, New Guinea without casualties.
1959: The Soviet Union launches “Lunik 1”, which is the first satellite to overcome the Earth’s gravity field, passes the moon at a distance of 5,600 kilometers and follows an elliptical orbit around the sun.
1984: Radio Luxembourg (RTL plus) is launching a German-language television program in the German border region.
2009: The Californian mortgage and building society bank IndyMac, which was funded by the US deposit fund FDIC, is being sold to a group of investors for $13.9 billion (€9.3 billion). The financial institution with balance sheet assets of around $32 billion collapsed before the US investment bank Lehman Brothers in July 2008 and was the second largest bank failure in the USA in 2008.
2014: In Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Islamist extremists are beginning to take control of numerous neighborhoods and public buildings. They call themselves the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” and emerged from a group founded in 2003 that fought once morest the US invasion of Iraq. Over the course of the year, under the acronyms ISIS, ISIL and, most recently, just IS, they will show not only the people of Iraq and later Syria, but also the entire world, the horrors of a bloodthirsty terrorist regime operating under the guise of faith.
Birthdays: Robert Nathan, US writer (1894-1985); Josef Moser, Eastern Minister of Buildings in the Kreisky government 1970-1980 (1919-2003); André Gigon, Switzerland. sculptor (1924-1991); Anton Lehmden, Eastern painter (1929-2018); Karl-Heinz Grasser, Eastern. ex-politician; Minister of Finance 2000-2007 (1969); Deborah Sengl, Eastern. Artist (1974).
Days of death: Klaus Mehnert, German political scientist/publicist (1906-1984); Eddie Heywood, US jazz musician (1915-1989); Inger Christensen, Danish. poet (1935-2009); Steven Gilborn, US actor (1936-2009).
Name days: Gregor, Basilius, Adelhard, Makarius, Dietmar, Abel, Seth, Argeus, Clarus, Narcissus, Stefanie.
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