2024-08-17 22:16:06
1889: The Palais des Industrie in Paris hosted 18,000 French community leaders, the largest number of guests ever hosted in one room in history.
1904: The German Car Days opened in Wroclaw, with 200 “car enthusiasts” taking part.
1914: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain neutral in World War I.
1934: The film “Krach um Jolanthe” starring Marianne Hope premieres in Berlin.
1944: The leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thälmann, who was captured after the Nazis seized power in 1933, was murdered by the SS at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944: American troops reach the Seine River below Paris.
1949: The German Press Agency (dpa) is founded in Hamburg.
1954: The U.S. Senate passed a law making espionage punishable by death even in peacetime.
1959: The British car company “Austin Morris” launched a new model that caused a sensation due to its small size. These two “Mini” models have become classics in the automotive industry.
1959: The Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers adopted the Santiago Declaration (for Cuba) outlawing all dictatorships.
1974: Israel arrested Melkite (Greek Catholic) Archbishop Hilarion Capucci on charges of smuggling weapons for the PLO and sentenced him to a long prison sentence. At the request of Pope Paul VI. The Syrian cleric was later pardoned and expelled. (Pope John Paul II appointed him Apostolic Visitor to Europe and America).
1979: Iran’s Shia revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini has declared war on Kurdish rebels in the west of the country.
1989: Liberal Colombia presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán was shot dead by a drug mafia assassin.
1994: A severe earthquake hit Algeria, killing more than 100 people.
1999: Ukraine and Moldova reached a territorial exchange agreement that gave Moldova access to the Danube River.
2019: US President Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. He angrily canceled a planned state visit to Denmark after receiving some frustrating rejections from the Copenhagen government for what he called “big real estate deals”.
Birthday: Gunter Stoll, German actor (1924-1977); Anatoly V. Kuznetsov, Russian writer (1929-1979); Rotraud Perner, Austrian lawyer and psychoanalyst (1944) ;Christian Slater, American actor (1969);Edward Norton, American actor (1969).
Days to death: Ulrich Baumgartner, Sheriff of the East (1918-1984); Elmer Bernstein, American film composer (1922-2004); South Korean President Kim Dae-jung; 2000 Nobel Peace Prize ( 1925-2009); Hildegard Behrens, German soprano (1934-2009).
Name day: Claudia, Helen, Leonard, Windelgard, Agapetus, Paola, Beatrix, Firmin, Johannes.
1723933620
#August #German #Automobile #Day #opens #Breslau #attended #car #enthusiasts
