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49 v. Chr.: The Roman Senate decides on a state of emergency in order to forestall Caesar’s complete seizure of power following the suppression of the Gallic uprising. When Caesar advances into Italy (crossing the Rubicon), civil war breaks out.
1784: The Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the American John Jeffries fly over the English Channel in a balloon for the first time.
1929: In the USA, the comic character “Tarzan” appears in the press for the first time.
1934: After 140 explosive attacks in various parts of Austria within just one week, the federal government is protesting to the German government once morest the National Socialist attacks. Berlin refuses to accept the protest note.
1949: End of the first Israeli-Arab war. Hostilities cease in Egypt, ceasefire in Palestine.
1989: The 87-year-old Japanese Emperor Hirohito (crowned in 1926) dies following a long illness. The 55-year-old Crown Prince Akihito ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne as the 125th Tennō and chooses the government motto “Heisei” (Perfection of Peace).
1999: The impeachment trial once morest President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky affair begins in the US Senate.
2009: Werner Faymann (SPÖ) is making his first bilateral visit to Switzerland a month following being sworn in as Chancellor.
2009: The third President of the National Council, Martin Graf (FPÖ), refuses to fire two of his employees who had ordered products from the right-wing extremist “Aufruhr” publishing house. But Graf distances himself from “Nazi filth”.
Birthdays: Eilhard Mitscherlich, German chemist (1794-1863); Philipp Reis, German physicist/inventor of the telephone (1834-1874); St. Bernadette (Maria Bernarda Soubirous) (1844-1879); Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (1934-2008); Nicolas Cage, American Actor (1964); Barbara Karlich, East. TV presenter (1969).
Days of death: Anton Hanak, Eastern sculptor (1875-1934); Jeanne Augier, French hotel owner (1823-2019); Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1901-1989); Moshe Arens, Israel. Politician (1925-2019).
Name days: Valentin, Sigrid, Reinhold, Raimund, Tilman, Isidor, Anno, Virginia, Knud, Artur, Melanie, Julian.
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