2024-04-27 22:29:01
On Sunday, April 28th, the book of history records, among other things:
1789: The mutinous crew of the British ship Bounty maroons Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors in the South Pacific. The crew rebels once morest Bligh’s inhuman regiment. In a masterpiece of seamanship, he reached Java and initiated a punitive action from England. Only a few mutineers who had retreated to the volcanic island of Pitcairn escaped.
1799: Five days following the end of the Rastatt Peace Congress, two French envoys were murdered by Austrian Szekler hussars as they were leaving.
1859: Austrian troops under Feldzeugmeister Count Franz Gyulai von Maros-Németh march into Piedmont. Beginning of the war once morest France. The 150,000 Austrians are compared to 180,000 French and Piedmontese.
1879: The first six-day race begins at London’s Agricultural Hall, which is won by George Walter.
1919: The Peace Conference in Paris adopts the final draft of the League of Nations Statutes.
1924: Forty German National Socialists, members of the “Hitler Shock Squad”, are convicted of participating in the attempted coup of November 1923 and imprisoned in Landsberg Fortress.
1939: Germany terminates the non-aggression pact with Poland and the German-British naval treaty. Hitler demands the incorporation of Danzig (a free city under League of Nations control since 1920).
1944: The first transports of Hungarian and Greek Jews arrive at the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz in Poland.
1949: The USA, Great Britain, France and the Benelux countries sign the Ruhr Statute in London, which provides for the establishment of a supreme control body for industrial production in the Ruhr area.
1969: Because of his defeat in the referendum on regional and Senate reform, French President General Charles de Gaulle is resigning following more than ten years in office. Senate President Alain Poher, who is part of the opposition, will take over the official duties on an interim basis.
1989: Fourteen British football hooligans are sentenced to prison in Brussels for causing mass panic with fatal consequences for 39 people – mostly Italian fans – during the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus in the Heysel Stadium.
1994: Gertraud Knoll, Evangelical Lutheran pastor from Weppersdorf in Burgenland, is the first woman in Austria to be elected to the office of superintendent (in 1998 independent presidential candidate).
2004: Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski is elected as the successor to President Boris Trajkovski, who died in a plane crash.
2004: In southern Thailand, an uprising by members of the Muslim minority is bloodily suppressed – at least 112 dead.
2004: The US television station CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) shows images of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers, which spark international outrage.
2009: Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing fighting between security forces and the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan. After massive pressure from the USA, the Pakistani army began an offensive once morest advancing Islamists with air support.
Birthdays: Karl Kraus, Eastern writer/critic (1874-1936); António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator (1889-1970); Willi Kollo, German composer (1904-1988); Burkhard Driest, German writer/actor (1939-2020); Günter Verheugen, German politician (1944); Christian Neureuther, German ex-ski racer (1949); Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress (1974).
Days of death: Géza von Cziffra, German-Hungarian. film director (1900-1989); Arthur Leonard Schawlow, US physicist (1921-1999); Yekaterina Sergeyevna Maximova, Russian ballet dancer (1939-2009).
Name days: Ludwig, Pierre, Hugo, Peter, Vitalis, Theobald, Theodora, Valeria, Paulus, Jason, Gerfried.
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