2023-07-03 22:51:24
Under Tuesday, July 4th, the book of history records, among other things:
1908: Thirty-year-old Jack Johnson became the first black American to become the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1908: A bloody coup in Paraguay claims hundreds of lives. The new ruler is former Vice President Emiliano González Navero.
1918: At George Washington’s tomb, US President Woodrow Wilson gives a speech on the American National Day, in which he calls for the destruction of autocratic systems of rule and the creation of an international peace organization.
1933: In Germany, the Center Party and the Bavarian People’s Party decide to dissolve themselves.
1938: The German anti-militarist writer Erich Maria Remarque (pseudonym for Erich Paul Remark), author of the war novel “Nothing New in the West” (1929), is stripped of his citizenship by the Nazi regime.
1943: The Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile in London, General Władysław Sikorski, dies in a plane crash near Gibraltar. Stanisław Mikołajczyk is appointed as his successor.
1953: As an exponent of the “new course” of the Hungarian Communist Party, Imre Nagy becomes prime minister. He promises a reform of agricultural policy and the end of Stalinist violence.
1953: Strikes and protests once morest forced deliveries to the Soviet Union break out in the Polish coalfields.
1953: The 500,000. “Volkswagen” rolls off the assembly line at the VW plant in Wolfsburg.
1958: In the state budget of the Federal Republic of Germany passed by the Bundestag in Bonn, armament expenditure is the largest expenditure item for the first time, at more than ten billion marks.
1963: Against the votes of the ÖVP, the National Council adopts a joint resolution by the SPÖ and FPÖ, in which the return to Austria of Otto Habsburg, the eldest son of Emperor Karl I who was dethroned in 1918, is described as “undesirable”.
1968: With the votes of the ruling ÖVP and the opposition SPÖ, the National Council decides to levy the ten percent politician tax.
1973: Creation of the Caribbean Economic Community by the governments of Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad-Tobago.
1993: Because of the failed anti-terror campaign in Bad Kleinen to capture RAF members Wolfgang Grams and Birgit Hogefeld (a police officer and Grams died in a hail of bullets from the special unit GSG 9), German Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters (CDU) has to resign.
2003: An attack on a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills 53 believers. Serious unrest then ensued. The banned Sunni group “Lashkar-e-Jhangvi” claims to be responsible for the attack.
2003: The Arabic TV station “Al Jazeera” broadcasts a taped message from the ex-Iraqi head of state Saddam Hussein who went into hiding, calling on his compatriots to resist the US occupying forces.
2008: Oil prices on the world markets reach a record level of 147 dollars (116.6 euros) per barrel. The descent begins a little later.
2013: About a year following the drugstore chain Schlecker left, the Austrian successor company dayli also went bankrupt.
2013: In return for his statements in Telekom trials and investigations, Telekom key witness Gernot Schieszler was offered key witness status by the Vienna public prosecutor’s office. In exchange for a payment of 300,000 euros and 120 hours of community service, he is spared a lawsuit. This makes the ex-Telekom Austria controlling boss Austria’s first official key witness.
birthdays: Corrado Bafile, Italian Cardinal (1903-2005); Aurelio Peccei, Italian industrial manager, initiator of the “Club of Rome” (1908-1984); Taufa’ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1918-2006); Cathy Berberian, US opera singer (1928-1983); Bill Withers, US singer/songwriter (1938-2020); Heide Simonis, German politician (1943); René Arnoux, French racing driver (1948); Ute Lemper, German singer and dancer (1963); Henri Leconte, French tennis player (1963).
days of death: Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop and saint ( ?-973); Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cosmographer and cartographer (1527-1598); François-René Vicomte de Chateaubriand, French writer and politician (1768-1848); Theodor Storm, German poet (1817-1888); Richard Teschner, Austria painter, puppeteer (1879-1948); Otto Bauer, Austria politician (SPÖ) (1881-1938); Władysław Sikorski, Polish officer and politician (1881-1943); Peter Monteverdi, Switzerland. car manufacturer (1934-1998); Barry White, US soul singer (1944-2003).
name days: Ulrich, Elizabeth, Bertha, Ulrike, Hatto, Bernold, Odo, Uldarich, Elizabeth, Hasso, Martin, Bruno.
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