2024-01-19 23:35:41
On Saturday, January 20th, the book of history records, among other things:
1924: The Walchensee power plant, built by Oskar von Miller, supplies the Bayernwerk with electrical energy for the first time.
1934: On the occasion of the first German “Reich Farmers’ Day” organized by the Nazi regime, the “Law for the Order of National Work” comes into force.
1934: The operetta “Giuditta” by Franz Lehár will be premiered at the State Opera.
1944: In the northern sector of the Eastern Front, the German Wehrmacht evacuates Novgorod.
1964: Parts of the army mutiny in Tanganyika, followed by mutinies in Kenya and Uganda. The three East African states call on British troops to restore calm.
1969: During a raid on an ammunition depot in Lebach in the Federal Republic of Germany, three soldiers are killed and a fourth dies six weeks later.
1974: Chinese soldiers occupy the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea after battles with the South Vietnamese.
1984: The deputy press chief of the Oslo Foreign Ministry, Arne Treholt, is arrested on suspicion of spying for the USSR. Norway expels five Soviet diplomats.
1984: Six GDR citizens take refuge in the US embassy in East Berlin. They will be taken to West Berlin on January 22nd.
1989: The Republican George Bush is sworn in as the 41st President of the USA in Washington. The new Secretary of State will be former Treasury Secretary James Baker.
1994: The ÖVP politician Christof Zernatto has canceled the agreement made with the FPÖ and declared that he would not be elected Carinthian governor with the votes of the Freedom Party.
2009: Democrat Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the USA. He is replacing the Republican George W. Bush in office.
2009: The ailing US car manufacturer Chrysler and its Italian competitor Fiat are entering into an alliance. In a first step, the Italian car manufacturer is to acquire a 35 percent stake in Chrysler. According to the information, Fiat will not pay the share with cash. Instead, Chrysler gets access to Fiat technology, especially for building small cars.
Birthdays: Wenceslas Eusebius von Lobkowicz, Bohemian nobleman and politician (1609-1677); Adolph Frank, German chemist (1834-1916); Walter Piston, US composer (1894-1976); Lois Welzenbacher, Eastern architect (1889-1955); Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (1924-2010); Göran Persson, Swedish politician and Prime Minister from 1996 to 2006 (1949).
Days of death: David Garrick, English playwright (1717-1779); Bettina von Arnim, German writer (1785-1859); Edmund Blunden, British writer (1896-1974); Johnny Weissmüller, US athlete and Tarzan actor from Austria. origin (1904-1984); Józef Cyrankievicz, Polish politician (1911-1989); Eva Zilcher, Eastern actress (1920-1994); Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (1933-2014); Andrew Vajna, Hungarian film, media and casino entrepreneur (1944-2019).
Name days: Fabian, Sebastian, Dietrich, Elisabeth, Ursula, Ute, Jakob, Maurus,
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