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1904: Essen begins a trial once morest the responsible engineer and operations manager, accused of causing a typhus epidemic through unfiltered Ruhr water in the drinking water supply. More than 3,000 people fell ill, and 200 died.
1919: American Jack Dempsey becomes the new heavyweight boxing world champion. He defeated defending champion Jesse Willard by technical knockout.
1919: Peruvian President José Pardo Barreda was overthrown in a military coup. The new ruler Augusto Bernardino Legia Salcedo established a dictatorship (until 1930).
1924: The Norwegian Parliament decided that from January 1, 1925, the capital, Christiania, would return to its old name of Oslo, before the fire of 1624. After reconstruction, it was named following King Christian IV of Denmark (also King of Norway).
1939: In order to promote immigration, the Tenth Decree of the Reich Citizenship Law promulgated by Nazi Germany stipulated that all Jews must unite in the “Reich Association of German Jews”.
1939: Philosopher Ernst Bloch and literary critic Walter Benjamin were deported by Germany’s Nazi rulers.
1949: At a conference of the Social Democratic and Socialist Parties in London, it was decided that the “Socialist Alliance of Central and Eastern Europe” would be formed by exiled representatives of Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Yugoslav parties.
1954: West Germany unexpectedly became world champions (“Miracle of Bern”) following defeating Hungary 3-2 at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern.
1974: Bonn government crisis: Minister for Economic Cooperation, Social Democrat Erhard Eppler, resigns in protest once morest cuts in the development aid budget. Egon Baal was named his successor.
1979: Former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella has been released from prison following 14 years in solitary confinement. In 1965, he was deposed by Colonel Houari Boumediene.
in 1989: Poland’s newly elected parliament consisted of two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, in which the anti-communist opposition had strong representation.
in 1989: An unmanned Soviet MiG-23 fighter jet took off from Kolobrzeg (Kollberg), Poland, and crashed into a house in Belgium following a “ghost flight.” One person died. Shortly following takeoff, the pilot jumped out of the aircraft due to damage.
1994: Czech President Vaclav Havel was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom.
year 2004: Independence Day commemorates the laying of the foundation stone for New York’s Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center stood until the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Birthday: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (1804-1864); Victor Baby, rum. Pathologist (1854-1926); Eva Marie Saint, American actress (1924); Konrad Swinarski, Polish theater director (1929-1975); Rowland Crick, German film director (1939); Willy Forman, Statesman of the East (SPÖ) (1944-2018); Horst Seehofer, German politician (1949); Victoria Abu Leal, Spanish actress (1959).
Days to death: Antonio Escobar Mendoza, Spanish theologian (1589-1669); Marie Curie (née Skłodowska), Polish-French physicist and chemist, 1903 Nobel Prize ( Physics), 1911 Nobel Prize (Chemistry) (1867-1934); Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak, Russian writer (1887-1964).
Name day: Ulrich, Elisabeth, Berta, Ulrich, Hatto, Bernard, Odo, Uldarich, Isabel, Hasso, Martin, Bruno.
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