2023-12-27 23:26:50
On Thursday, December 28th, the book of history records, among other things:
1908: A devastating earthquake devastates Messina and southern Calabria: around 83,000 dead.
1948: Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud Fahmi Nokrashi Pasha is assassinated by a student. King Farouk appoints Ibrahim Abdel Hadi as his successor.
1968: Israeli commandos destroy 13 aircraft in a surprise attack on Beirut International Airport. The operation is portrayed as a reprisal for the shelling of an Israeli airline “El Al” plane by Arab terrorists at Zurich airport.
1988: The “man with the suitcase”, Bela Rabelbauer, is found guilty in Vienna of serious fraud as well as involvement in breach of trust and abuse of office and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. The judgment is not final. In 1991 he was sentenced to seven years in prison in the second instance.
1993: Ultranationalist Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky is expelled from Bulgaria following publicly denigrating President Zhelyu Zhelev.
2008: Second day of the Israeli military offensive “Cast Lead” in the Gaza Strip, with dozens of deaths on the Palestinian side.
Birthdays: Carl R. Fresenius, German chemist (1818-1897); Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (1888-1931); Johann (John) Fr. Neumann, Hungarian-American. mathematician (1903-1957); Earl Kenneth Hines, US jazz musician (1903-1983); Richard Clayderman, French pianist (1953); John Legend, US musician (1978).
Days of death: Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (according to other information December 27) (1832-1923); Paul Hindemith, German composer (1895-1963); Luise Paichl, eastern actress/singer (1901-1963); Gustav Zelibor, Eastern Kapellmeister (1903-1978); William Shirer, US author and historian (1904-1993); Rudi Schuricke, German singer (1913-1973); Joseph Ruskin, US actor (1924-2013); Otto Pammer, Eastern cameraman, director and producer (1926-2008); Otto Breicha, Eastern Art critic, exhibition organizer and museum director (1932-2003); Amos Oz (aka Amos Klausner), Israel. Writer (1939-2018).
Name days: Hubald, Jolande, Theodor, Hermann, Otto, Domitian, Thaddäus, Kaspar, Franz.
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