2024-08-18 22:10:27
On Monday, August 19, the history books recorded:
14: After the death of Augustus, Tiberius became emperor of the Roman Empire.
1839: Daguerre announced his secret of photography (photography using photosensitive silver salts on metal plates) in exchange for a pension. The invention was made two years ago but was not known until now.
1879: Austro-Hungarian troops attacked Sarajevo, which was defended by 6,000 men.
1904: Russo-Japanese War: Japanese forces begin a multi-day assault on the Russian-controlled Port Arthur (Dalian) fortress at the tip of China’s Liaodong Peninsula. (As of August 24, 15,000 Japanese and 3,000 Russian soldiers were killed).
1914: The Austro-Hungarian army interrupted its offensive against Serbia on the lower Drina and Sava rivers because the army command needed additional troops to fight the Russians on the eastern front.
1929: The first edition of Albert Schweitzer’s Self-Portrait is about to be published and will sell out in a matter of days.
1934: In a referendum held in Germany, 89.9% of voters approved the unification of the positions of Reich President and Reich Chancellor. Executive power was thus transferred to Hitler.
1949: The film “Wiener Mädeln” directed by Willi Forst premieres at the Berlin Babylon. Starring: Hans Moser, Kud Jürgens, Judith Holzmeister and Hedwig Bretlow. This last film made in Austria during the National Socialist era was the first color film when “Vienna Film” began filming in 1944.
1969: British troops are responsible for the security of Northern Ireland.
1979: Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valeri Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 32 after 175 days in space.
1989: On the occasion of the pan-European campaign on the Burgenland-Hungary border, a spectacular mass exodus took place, with more than 500 East German citizens heading to Austria.
1989: Polish President Jaruzelski nominated the opposition “Solidarity Party” politician Mazowiecki as prime minister of the cross-party alliance.
1999: In a large demonstration in Belgrade, more than 100,000 people called for the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Birthday: Samuel Richardson, English novelist (1689-1761); Joseph Engelhardt, Eastern. Painter and sculptor (1864-1941); Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (1909-1983); Wolfgang Boetticher, German musicologist (1914-2002); Malcolm Smith Stevenson Forbes, American publisher (1919-1990); Kurt Jeschke, Eastern sports journalist (1919-1973); (Carl Wolmar) Jakob von Uexküll, Swedish journalist, initiator of the alternative Nobel Prize (1944); Rainer Parjasek, Eastern sportscaster (1964); Matthew Perry, Canadian-American actor (1969-2023).
Days to death: James Watt, Scottish inventor (1736-1819); Ludwig Gamplovich, Eastern lawyer and sociologist (1838-1909); Alcide De Gasperi, Italian politics Home (1881-1954); Linus C. Pauling, American chemist; 1954 Nobel Prize; 1962 Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994); Walter Tilling, Eastern. Physicist (1927-2014).
Name day: Johann, Sebald, Jean, Carlitas, Ludwig, Bertulf, Emilia, Arnulf, Siegbert, Reinlind, Leo, Marion.
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