2024-02-14 23:12:52
On Thursday, February 15th, the book of history records, among other things:
44 v. Chr.: At the festival in honor of the god Lupercus, Gaius Julius Caesar rejects the Roman kingship offered to him by Marcus Antonius. Both hold the consulate. (Caesar is assassinated in March.)
1689: The Riksdag of the Holy Roman Empire declares war on France. The French King Louis In the War of the Palatinate Succession (until 1697), large areas on both sides of the Rhine were devastated by French troops.
1904: With his novel “Peter Camenzind,” 26-year-old Hermann Hesse achieved his literary breakthrough.
1934: End of the February fighting in Austria. The social democratic resistance collapses following Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß ordered the use of artillery once morest municipal buildings. The Schutzbund complains of 137 deaths and 399 injuries, while the police, army and home guard report 105 deaths and 319 injuries.
1934: The German journalist Carl von Ossietzky is taken to the Esterwegen concentration camp near Papenburg.
1944: Allied bombers destroy the medieval Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy, where German troops are mistakenly suspected.
1944: Under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, US troops conquer the Solomon Islands occupied by the Japanese.
1949: In Paraguay, Colorado Party candidate Natalicio González is elected president.
1954: Two French naval officers reach a depth of 4,050 meters in a “Bathyscaphe” submersible in the South Atlantic.
1969: The longest diving experiment in the history of underwater research begins in the Caribbean. Four “aquanauts” spend two months in a two-tower steel housing off the Antilles island of St. John at a depth of 15 meters.
1979: In Iran, trials of “Islamic people’s courts” begin once morest supporters of the fugitive Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, which usually end with execution.
1984: Bettino Craxi is the first Italian head of government in 103 years to pay an official visit to Austria.
1989: After more than nine years, the Soviet army evacuates Afghanistan.
1994: North Korea ends its dispute with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and allows inspections at seven nuclear power plants.
1999: The head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, is kidnapped from Kenya by the Turkish secret service.
2004: Senator John Kerry continues to expand his lead for the US Democratic presidential nomination.
2009: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez wins a referendum on his unlimited re-election at the second attempt. This means he can stay in office beyond 2013 as long as he wins the elections.
Birthdays: Galileo Galilei, Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher (1564-1642); Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, British polar explorer (1874-1922); Georges Auric, French composer (1899-1983); James R. Schlesinger, US politician (1929-2014); Graham Hill, British racing driver (1929-1975); Reinhard Löw, German philosopher (1949-1994); Matt Groening, American Illustrator, creator of the series “The Simpsons” (1954); Alexander Wurz, former Austrian Car racer (1974).
Days of death: Sir Owen Richardson, British physicist; Nobel Prize 1928 (1879-1959); Kurt Magnus Atterberg, Swedish composer (1887-1974); Ethel Merman, US actress/singer (1909-1984); Henry W. Kendall, US nuclear physicist; Nobel Prize 1990 (1926-1999).
Name days: Siegfried, Drutmar, Erich, Faustinus, Sovita, Prikt, Amarin, Sigurd, Georgia, Coloman, Jordan.
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