2023-12-19 23:08:49
On Wednesday, December 20th, the book of history records, among other things:
1823: Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture premieres in Vienna.
1913: Premiere of Leo Fall’s operetta “The Night Express Train” at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna.
1963: The Auschwitz trial, the largest mass murder trial in German judicial history to date, begins in Frankfurt am Main. The trial is against 21 former members of the SS guards. The verdicts, which were read out on August 19, 1965, were six life sentences in prison, a ten-year youth sentence and ten prison sentences between three and a half and fourteen years. Three defendants are acquitted due to lack of evidence. The justification “emergency of orders” has several mitigating effects on the punishment.
1973: Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco falls victim to a bomb attack in Madrid.
1983: The President of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, leaves the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli with his supporters on Greek ships.
1988: German-language premiere of the musical “The Phantom of the Opera”, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, at the Theater an der Wien (1990-1993 in the Raimund Theater).
2013: Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky is pardoned and released after more than ten years in prison. The former head of what was once the largest Russian oil company, Yukos, was convicted of, among other things, tax evasion, money laundering and theft. The trial against him was internationally criticized as politically motivated.
Birthdays: Charlotte Bühler, German psychologist (1893-1974); Beatrice Richter, German actress (1948); Alan Parsons, British musician (1948); Karl Wendlinger, former Austrian Racing Driver (1968); Kylian Mbappé, French footballer (1998).
Days of death: Alfred Johann Theophil Jansa Edler von Tannenau, eastern. Lieutenant Field Marshal; 1935-1938 Chief of the General Staff (1884-1963); Max Brod, Eastern Israel. writer (1884-1968); John Steinbeck, US writer; Nobel Prize 1962 (1902-1968); Alan L. Hodgkin, British physiologist; Nobel Prize 1963 (1914-1998); Robert Mulligan, US film director (1925-2008); FW Bernstein, German illustrator and satirist (1938-2018).
Name days: Eugen, Regina, Julius, Hoger, Hermann, Holger, Heinrich, Eike, Vitus, Ignaz, Ambrosius.
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