2023-12-12 23:56:55
On Wednesday, December 13th, the book of history records, among other things:
1888: The German physicist Heinrich Hertz announces his discovery of electromagnetic waves in Berlin. In doing so, he creates the basis for wireless telegraphy.
1958: The USA shoots a marmoset 480 km into space with a Jupiter rocket; the animal is never found once more.
1963: The UN General Assembly reaffirms the principle of the peaceful use of outer space in a resolution.
1988: Before the UN General Assembly moved to Geneva, the President of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, offers Israel peace talks under the auspices of the United Nations and calls for an international Middle East conference.
1993: The EU ratifies the Treaty on the European Economic Area (EEA), which was revised following Switzerland’s withdrawal and comes into force on January 1, 1994, one year late.
2003: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured by US troops in a hideout not far from his hometown of Tikrit.
2008: The actor Horst Tappert dies in a Munich clinic at the age of 85. He became known as a long-time “Derrick” actor.
Birthdays: Henry IV of Bourbon, King of France and Navarre; founder of the Bourbon dynasty (1553-1610); Archie Moore, US boxing legend (1913-1998); Philip W. Anderson, US physicist; Nobel Prize 1977 (1923-2020); Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter (1923-2012); Wolfgang Hutter, Eastern painter (1928-2014); Heino (aka Heinz Georg Kramm), German pop singer (1938); Gertraud Jesserer, Austrian actress (1943-2021); Ben Bernanke, US economist; 2006-2014 Chairman of the Fed (1953); Johannes Silberschneider, Eastern Actor (1958).
Days of death: Friedrich Hebbel, German poet (1813-1863); Josef Keil, Eastern Ancient historian, epigraphist and classical archaeologist (1878-1963); Horst Tappert, German actor (1923-2008); Nancy Wilson, US jazz musician (1937-2018).
Name days: Lucia, Ottilie, Odilla, Jodok, Benno, Edburg, Edda, Auxentius, Berthold, Andreas, Odila.
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