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1849: Beginning of the Battle of Kápolna – defeat of the Hungarian revolutionary army by imperial troops under Alfred Fürst zu Windischgraetz and Lieutenant Field Marshal Franz Heinrich Graf Schlik.
1909: Colored film images are being shown to a paying audience for the first time in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
1909: Turkey recognizes the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary.
1909: With the adoption of the “London Declaration” an international maritime law conference ends in the British capital. The major powers agree on the rights and obligations of states engaged in naval warfare (since December 1908).
1924: The treason trial begins in Munich once morest Adolf Hitler and nine co-defendants who took part with him in the attempted coup on November 9, 1923. Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison on April 1st.
1929: The operetta “Queen of Hearts” by Oscar Straus premieres in Magdeburg.
1959: The painting “Fall of the Damned” by Rubens in the Munich Pinakothek is damaged in an acid attack by the writer Walter Menzel.
1974: In Ethiopia, parts of the army mutinied, triggering the development that led to the deposition of Emperor Haile Selassie I in September.
1984: In a joint vote, Swiss voters approved the introduction of a motorway toll, but rejected the introduction of a civilian military replacement service.
1984: The last US Marines are withdrawn from Beirut.
2004: Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski dies in a plane crash in Bosnia. None of the plane’s nine occupants survived.
Birthdays: Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian politician/wife of Lenin (1869-1939); Hans Rosenberg, German historian (1904-1988); Witold Rowicki, Polish conductor (1914-1989); Silvio Varviso, Switzerland. conductor (1924-2006); Ronald (Stephen) Lauder, US entrepreneur, art collector and ambassador (1944); Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish politician, president since 2014 (1954); Sébastien Loeb, French car and rally racing driver (1974).
Days of death: Alois Senefelder, eastern Inventor of the stone printing process (1771-1834); Ferdinand (Lukas) Schubert, Eastern. educator and composer (1794-1859); Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (1883-1969); Levi Eshkol, Israel. politician (1895-1969); Alexander Golling, German actor (1905-1989); Leopold Kohr, Eastern philosopher (1909-1994); Roy Eldridge, US jazz trumpeter (1911-1989); Ruth Drexel, German actress (1930-2009); Herbert Berger, Eastern Journalist, writer and playwright (1932-1999).
Name days: Mechthild, Alexander, Ulrich, Edelbert, Gotthard, Gotthilf, Ottokar, Dionysius.
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