2023-07-27 22:35:26
Under Friday, July 28, the book of history records, among other things:
1858: In India, British colonial official William Herschel introduced the ink palmprint. Fingerprints were first used by the police to investigate crimes in 1891 (dactyloscopy).
1913: Emperor Franz Joseph I dissolves the Bohemian state parliament elected in 1908 after the German deputies refused any cooperation with the Czech ones.
1913: “Second Balkan War”. The peace conference of the countries involved in the second Balkan war, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria, begins in Bucharest. The negotiations are concluded on August 10 with the so-called “Peace of Bucharest”.
1928: At the IX. Summer Olympics in Amsterdam start women in the track and field disciplines for the first time.
1948: A nitro paint explosion occurs in the German BASF plant in Ludwigshafen: 205 people die and 400 are injured.
1948: First opera performance at the Salzburg Festival: “Orpheus and Eurydice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
1948: When supplying the blocked West Berlin, the Western Allies achieved a daily output of 3,000 tons with 548 flights for the first time.
1973: The US launches the first manned space laboratory “Skylab 3” with astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma on board.
1993: Israeli large-scale attack in southern Lebanon and targeted displacement of the civilian population. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing.
1993: Terrorist attacks in Milan and Rome kill five people and injure many more. It remains unclear whether the mafia was behind the attacks.
1993: Andorra becomes the 184th member of the UN.
1998: The Austrian retail group Julius Meinl AG is acquired by the German Rewe Group.
birthdays: Alberto Kenya Fujimori, Peruvian politician (1938); Richard Wright, British pop singer (1943-2008); Reto Salimbeni, black film director (1958); Harry Kane, British footballer (1993).
days of death: Selim III., Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (naA 29.7.) (1761-1808); Otto Hahn, German chemist and nuclear physicist; Nobel Prize 1944 (1879-1968); Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, German engineer and entrepreneur; Founder of the automobile companies “Borgward”, “Goliath” and “Lloyd” (1890-1963); Charles W. Mayo, US surgeon (1898-1968) Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (1914-2013); Greta Zimmer. east Actress (1922-2003); Zbigniew Herbert, Polish writer (1924-1998); Jupp Darchinger, German photojournalist (1925-2013).
name days: Nazarius, Ada, Beatus, Bantus, Benno, Pantaleon, Celsus, Innozenz, Viktor, Bernhard, Adele.
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