2023-12-29 23:38:51
On Saturday, December 30th, the book of history records, among other things:
1703: Tokyo and other Japanese cities are destroyed by an earthquake, killing 150,000 people.
1853: Mexico sells the southern parts of Arizona and New Mexico to the USA.
1888: The first party conference of the Austrian Social Democrats in Hainfeld in Lower Austria adopted the party program written by Victor Adler.
1903: More than 500 people die in a theater fire in Chicago.
1918: In Berlin, 85 delegates from German Spartacus associations decide to found the Communist Workers’ Party of Germany (Spartacus Association).
1938: Premiere of the ballet “Romeo and Juliet” by Sergei Prokofiev at the Theater am Wall in Brno.
1948: Cole Porter’s musical “Kiss Me Kate” premieres in New York.
1963: 500 tons of oil are shipped to the USSR in 16 tank wagons – Austria’s oil debt to the Soviet Union is thus paid off.
1973: The Vatican and Israel sign a historic agreement in principle, which, among other things, provides for the establishment of diplomatic relations. Pope John Paul II hopes for rapprochement between the Catholic Church and Judaism.
1993: The Vatican and Israel agree to establish diplomatic relations. The Holy See refuses to recognize Israel’s claim to Jerusalem and demands international status for the holy city of the three monotheistic world religions.
2008: The Belgian government crisis is over for now: King Albert II swears in the new government under the Flemish Christian Democrat Herman Van Rompuy. The 61-year-old is supported by the previous five-party coalition, but only remains in office for eleven months: He is nominated as the first permanent EU Council President in November 2009.
Birthdays: Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, German writer (1878-1962); W. Eugene Smith, US photographer (1918-1978); Sara Lidmann, Swedish writer (1923-2004); Bo Diddley, US blues musician (1928-2008); Thomas D. (Dürr), German hip-hop musician (Die Fantastischen Vier) (1968); Maureen Flannigan, US actress (1973).
Days of death: Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter (1702-1788); Sir Samuel White Baker, British explorer (1821-1893); Trygve Lie, Norway. Politician/first UN Secretary General (1896-1968); Patricia Roc, British actress (1915-2003); Edgar Hilsenrath, German writer (1926-2018); Eva Twaroch, Eastern Journalist (1963-2018).
Name days: Hermine, Sabine, Lothar, Felix, Eugen, Hermann, Dankward, Germar, Dionysius, Lazarus, Alfreda, David.
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