2023-08-09 22:04:57
Under Thursday, August 10, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: Grand opening of the Louvre Museum in Paris. In the original château of the French kings – built under Philip Augustus in the early 13th century and restored under Louis XIII. rebuilt – in addition to the former royal collections, church treasures confiscated during the revolution and later Napoleonic art looted from other countries are kept.
1813: “Peace Congress of Prague”. The Austrian Chancellor and Foreign Minister Clemens Wenzel Fürst von Metternich dissolves the congress in Prague without an agreement and has the declaration of war served on France the next day. The congress was supposed to end the war between Prussia and Russia on the one hand and France on the other under Austrian mediation.
1893: In the Kruppsche Maschinenfabrik Augsburg, Dr. engine developed by Rudolf Diesel.
1903: A fire in the Paris subway (Métro) kills more than 160 people.
1913: The Bucharest Peace Treaty seals Bulgaria’s defeat in the Second Balkan War ( once morest Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Romania). The Bulgarians lose most of their territorial gains from the First Balkan War.
1933: After the Breslau-Dürrgoy concentration camp was dissolved, the 343 prisoners, including the former Social Democratic President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe, were transported by the German Nazi authorities to a new camp near Osnabrück.
1948: After demonstrations by Greek Cypriots in favor of “enosis”, the island’s annexation to Greece, the British colonial administration dissolves the Consultative Assembly of Cyprus and rules out any change of sovereignty and any form of self-government.
1948: In Herrenchiemsee in Bavaria, experts meet on behalf of the West German state governments who, at the request of the western occupying powers, draw up guidelines for a future constitution (“Basic Law for the Federation of German States”).
1968: The central organ of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, “Rudé právo”, publishes the draft for a new party statute that allows minority opinions even following majority decisions.
1983: With the help of a warden, the grand master of the banned Italian secret lodge P-2, Licio Gelli, escapes from a Geneva prison nine days before extradition to Italy.
1983: France sends paratroopers to support the regime of President Hissène Habré in Chad.
1988: US Congress approves major aid to right-wing Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua’s elected Sandinista government.
2003: Mass protests break out in the Iraqi city of Basra, which is occupied by British troops.
birthdays: Hugo Eckener, German airship pioneer (1868-1954); Alfred Döblin, German writer (1878-1957); Eddie Fisher, US crooner (1928-2010); Keith Duckworth, British Formula 1 pioneer (1933-2005); Ernst Wolfram Marboe, Austria Publicist (1938-2012); Grit (actually Margit) Boettcher, German actress (1938); Antje Hagen, German writer (1938); Patti Austin, US rock and soul singer (1948); Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (1968-2011).
days of death: Donald Kahn, US-Ost. Patron of Culture (1925-2013); Eydie Gorme, US singer (1928-2013); Isaac Hayes, US soul musician (1942-2008).
name days: Laurentius, Lorenz, Astrid, Hugo, Asta, Lars, Erik, Erich, Erika, Amadeus.
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