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383: The Roman Emperor Gratian is murdered in Lugdunum (Lyon) while fleeing from the usurper Magnus Maximus.
1618: In Switzerland, rock masses from Monte Conti bury the town of Plurs. Up to 2,000 people die in the disaster.
1718: French emigrants found the city of La Nouvelle Orleans (New Orleans) in Louisiana. They honor the Duke of Orléans (brother of King Louis XIV).
1758: The Prussian King Frederick II defeated the Russians, who were allied with Austria, near Zorndorf.
1808: The paddle steamer “Clermont”, built by the American engineer Robert Fulton, is the first liner in the world to go into operation. The steamship travels on the Hudson River from New York to Albany (240 km).
1883: The Vietnamese Emperor Tu Duc signs the protectorate treaties with France for Annam and Tongking in Hue.
1913: The US imposes an economic embargo on Mexico.
1918: Austro-Hungarian offensive in Albania.
1943: Lord Louis Mountbatten (formerly Prince of Battenberg), cousin of the British King George VI. and later Viceroy of India, is appointed Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Southeast Asia.
1948: The Soviet Union closes its consulates in New York and San Francisco.
1948: In the Greek civil war, the leader of the communist insurgents, General Markos (aka Vafiadis), admits defeat in the fighting in the Grammos Mountains.
1948: North Korea holds elections for the first Supreme People’s Assembly.
1963: Nina Boesman from the Netherlands is the first woman to cross the Alps in a free balloon.
1973: The UN Security Council condemns the Israeli air strikes on Lebanese villages.
1973: In Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), President Kenneth Kaunda signs the new constitution.
1988: A major fire rages in the famous old town of Lisbon. Two people die and 1,500 are injured. Part of the Baixa district between Rossio Square and the banks of the Tagus will be largely destroyed.
1988: After eight years of war, Iran and Iraq start direct talks.
1993: In Warsaw, Russian President Boris Yeltsin lays a wreath at the memorial in honor of the Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret service in 1940.
1993: The new department store Steffl is opened in Vienna’s Kärntnerstraße.
2003: Two bomb attacks in the Indian metropolis of Bombay (Mumbai) claim 53 lives and injure more than 150. Militant Islamic Kashmir groups are suspected to be the authors.
birthdays: Bruno Bettelheim, US-Amer.-Aust. psychologist (naA 28.8.) (1903-1990); Leonard Bernstein, US composer and conductor (1918-1990); Reima Frans Pietilä, Finnish architect (1923-1993); Josef Schagerl, Austria sculptor (1923); (noA August 23, 1923); Álvaro Mutis, Colombia. writer (1923-2013); Frederick Forsyth, British writer (1938); Guy Gilles, French film director (1938-1996); Timothy “Tim” William Burton, US writer, producer and film director (1958); Fatih Akin, German film director, screenwriter, actor and producer (1973).
days of death: Joseph of Calasanza, Italian founder of the order (Piarists), canonized in 1767 (1556-1648); Jacob van Lennep, Dutch poet (1802-1868); Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist; Nobel Prize 1903 (1852-1908); Leo Blech, German conductor (1871-1958); Harry Elmer Barnes, US sociologist (1889-1968); John McCain, US politician (1936-2018).
name days: Ludwig, Elvira, Josef, Calasanz, Ebba, Patricia, Gaudenz, Christoph, Gregor, Adalbert, Genesius.
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