2024-02-13 23:05:47
On Wednesday, February 14th, the book of history records, among other things:
1014: Henry II is crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Benedict VIII.
1779: British captain and explorer James Cook is killed by locals in Hawaii.
1804: Thomas Stone and James Henderson receive a patent for a sewing machine in France.
1859: Oregon becomes the 33rd state in the USA.
1904: In Panama, the Constituent National Assembly passes a constitution that grants the USA the right to intervene.
1914: British women’s rights activists smash the windows of the Home Office in London during a demonstration.
1919: US President Woodrow Wilson announces the drafting of the League of Nations Charter at the Paris Peace Conference.
1924: The first part of Fritz Lang’s monumental film “The Nibelungen” premieres in Berlin.
1929: “Valentine’s Day Massacre” in Chicago: Seven gangsters who belonged to a gang that rivaled the underworld king Al Capone are murdered in a garage.
1934: Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß makes an appeal on the radio to the members of the Social Democratic Schutzbund who are still fighting: Assurance of a pardon for laying down arms until February 15, 12:00 p.m.
1934: The German battleship “Bismarck” is launched in Hamburg.
1949: Portuguese President Marshal António Carmona is re-elected with 80 percent of the vote. He came to power in 1928 and held the office of president until his death in 1951.
1959: The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China sign a friendship treaty.
1979: The American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who was kidnapped by hostage takers, dies in a failed rescue attempt.
1984: Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon has been forced to resign following an investigative commission accused him of complicity in the Sabra and Shatila massacres. (After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, commanded by Sharon, militias allied with Israel massacred at least 1,500 civilians, including many women and children, in the two Palestinian refugee camps with the connivance of the Israeli occupying army.)
1984: Great Britain’s Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the gold medal in ice dancing at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
1989: The Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a murder order in the form of a “fatwa” (spiritual legal opinion) once morest the Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie and all publishers who publish his novel “Satanic Verses”, which is classified as blasphemy. Rushdie insists he did not insult Islam.
1989: A month following his kidnapping, former Belgian Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants is released following paying a large ransom.
1994: The first high-speed train passes through the Channel Tunnel on a trial basis.
1994: Russian mass murderer Andrei Chikatilo, dubbed the “Beast of Rostov,” is executed. The 56-year-old teacher had killed 54 people.
2004: 26 people have to pay with their lives for their trip to a Moscow water park. The roof of the complex collapses on the bathers.
2019: Airbus no longer sees a future for the superjumbo A380. Because demand has collapsed, the world’s largest aircraft will be taken out of the program in two years.
Birthdays: Leon Battista Alberti, Italian humanist (1404-1472); Lovro of Matačić, Yugoslavia. conductor (1899-1985); Peter Hans Hofschneider, German molecular biologist and virus researcher (1929-2004); Dinah Hinz, German actress (1934-2020); Johanna Dohnal, Eastern politician (1939-2010); Urs Peter Schneider, black composer (1939); Peter Rapp, Eastern TV presenter (1944); Alan Parker, British film director (1944-2020); Sigrid Wolf, former Austrian alpine skier (1964); Jurij Tepeš, former Slovenian. Ski jumper (1989).
Days of death: James Cook, British sailor and explorer (1728-1779); Kurt Horwitz, German actor and director (1897-1974); Warren (“Baby”) Dodds, US jazz musician (1898-1959); Hertha Firnberg, eastern politician (1909-1994); Werner Hilgemann, German non-fiction author (1921-2004); Rudolf Haller, Eastern philosopher (1929-2014); Christopher Lasch, US historian (1932-1994); Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (1970-2004).
Name days: Valentin, Cyril, Method, Gisbert, Bruno, Johann, Konrad, Josefa, Kurt.
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