2024-08-03 22:21:54
On Sunday, August 4, the history books recorded the following:
1704: During the War of the Spanish Succession, the British fleet captured Gibraltar. The rocky peninsula of the Mediterranean has belonged to Britain since 1713.
1789: The French nobility lost their class privileges.
1894: Freight trains began operating for the first time after the electrification of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
1909: American aviation pioneer Orville Wright set a world record altitude of 172 meters during a demonstration flight at Berlin’s Tempelhofer Feld.
1914: The British ultimatum amounted to a British declaration of war on Germany. U.S. President Wilson declared that the United States would remain neutral.
1919: Romanian troops occupy Budapest.
1939: The film “Disgust” starring Hans Moser premiered in Berlin.
1944: In Amsterdam, 14-year-old Anne Frank and seven other Jews were discovered by the police in their hiding place.
1949: In the Eisleben Bloody Sunday trial, the main defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment and 28 defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 12 years, two of whom were acquitted.
1949: Yugoslavia issued three memorandums making demands to Austria and demanding the return of stolen property.
1954: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” starring Grace Kelly and James Stewart, celebrates its world premiere in New York.
1974: Right-wing extremists launch a bombing attack on the Rome-Munich Express train near Bologna: 12 people are killed and 48 injured.
1984: The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso (“Land of Integrity”).
Year 1999: British Defense Secretary George Robertson will succeed Spaniard Javier Solana as the new NATO Secretary-General.
Year 1999: Germany’s Stern magazine quoted Chancellor Viktor Klima’s statement that Austria’s population increased from seven million to eight million “not by Austrians, but entirely by immigrants from the Balkans.” Stir.
Birthday: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer; 1920 Nobel Prize (1859-1952); Witold Gombrowicz, Polish writer (1904-1969); Otto Steiger, noir writer (1909 -2005); Yasser Arafat, Palace. Politician (1929-2004) (August 24 or 27 according to other sources).
Days to death: Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney, French Catholic. Priest, Patron of Priests (1786-1859); Father Carl Orr v. Welsbach, Eastern chemist (1858-1929); Harald Paulsen, German actor (1895-1954); Friedrich Meznick, Eastern lawyer/journalist (1908-1989); Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (1925-1994).
Name day: John, Reiner, Dominikus, Jens, Jan, Sigrid, Perpetua, Bernhard, Tertullinus, Maria M.
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