2023-07-09 22:04:35
Under Monday, July 10, the book of history records, among other things:
1393: In the Sempach letter, the Confederates agree on a common order of war for the first time.
1553: Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, dies following the death of Edward VI. proclaimed Queen of England. But she has to give way to his half-sister Maria Tudor and is beheaded in 1554 in the Tower of London.
1898: Fashoda Crisis: French Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists the tricolor in the Sudanese town of Fashoda on the left bank of the White Nile, 650 kilometers south of Khartoum. French expansion ends in November. The British under General Herbert Kitchener claim the upper Nile region.
1938: Aviation pioneer Howard Hughes embarked on what was then the fastest circumnavigation of the world in a plane he had developed himself. On the flight via Paris-Moscow-Omsk-Yakutsk-Anchorage to Minneapolis, he arrived at the departure airport in New York City following 91 hours on July 14.
1943: Allied troops under the supreme command of US General Eisenhower land in Sicily with 280 warships. Five British and four US divisions as well as Canadian units are involved in “Operation Husky”.
1943: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the “complete evacuation of areas infested with gangs” in the Ukraine.
1948: In Koblenz, the heads of government of the West German states agree to the proposals of the military governors to form a parliamentary council to represent the three western zones of occupation and to have this draft a “Basic Law”.
1953: The Soviet interior minister and head of the secret service, Lavrentij Beria, is deposed and arrested. He is accused of “high treason in the service of foreign powers”.
1963: The National Council decides on the People’s Petition Act.
1968: As part of the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” in China, new guidelines for the education system are enacted: shorter study times and the establishment of management groups made up of workers and peasants at the universities.
1973: The Bahamas becomes the 143rd country in the world to become independent following three centuries of British colonial rule.
1978: Mauritanian President Mochtar Ould Daddah is overthrown by the military.
1993: The FPÖ leaves the Liberal International and thus forestalls the exclusion.
1993: Jailed Serbian opposition leader Vuk Drašković is released following foreign intervention and then breaks off his hunger strike.
1993: Serious “rafting” disaster: On the upper reaches of the Inn in Switzerland, nine people die and 17 are injured in a rubber raft white water trip.
2003: After 16 months, the draft of the EU Convention for a European Constitution has been completed.
2003: Hubble astronomers discover the oldest known planet in the Milky Way, thought to be nearly 13 billion years old, in the constellation of Scorpio. It is thought to have formed regarding a billion years following the Big Bang.
birthdays: Friedrich Flick, German industrialist (1883-1972); Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan. Author (1888-1960); Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (1888-1978); Ljuba Welitsch, Bulgarian-Austrian soprano (1913-1996); Bernard Buffet, French painter (1928-1999); Alejandro de Tomaso, arg. racing driver and sports car manufacturer (1928-2003); Peter Jankowitsch, Austria diplomat and politician (SPÖ) (1933); Hans-Peter Hallwachs, German actor (1938-2022); Chris Lohner, Austria Presenter, actress and author (1943); Arthur Ashe, US tennis player (1943-1993).
days of death: Hadrian, Roman Emperor (76-138); Masuji Ibuse, Japan. writer (1898-1993); Werner Egk (actually Mayer), German composer and conductor (1901-1983); Wolfgang Lukschy, German actor and director (1905-1983); Carlo Benetton, Italian co-founder of the fashion company of the same name (1943-2018).
name days: Olaf, Erich, Knud, Engelbert, Amalia, Alexander, Erika, Maria Amandine, Rüfina, Ulrich, Alma.
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