2023-06-14 22:51:33
Under Thursday, June 15, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: The First Democratic Congress begins in Frankfurt am Main with 234 delegates, including Ludwig Feuerbach and Ferdinand Freiligrath. The participants plead for the republican form of government and form a “Central Committee of German Democrats”.
1888: After the death of Frederick III. his son Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor and King of Prussia.
1918: Offensive of the Imperial and Royal troops in the Asiago sector in the Grappa area and on the lower Piave. Despite the high water crossing over the Piave from Montello to the Adriatic Sea.
1978: Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalyonok and Alexander Ivanchenkov launch Soyuz 29 for a record 140-day stay in space. They return on 2.11. from the space station “Salyut 6” back to earth.
1978: In Amman, King Hussein of Jordan marries his fourth marriage to the 26-year-old American of Syrian-Lebanese descent Liza Halaby, daughter of the former PanAm boss Najeeb Halaby, who as queen is given the name Nur al-Hussein (“Light of Hussein”). Queen Alia, the third consort, died in a helicopter crash in 1977.
1988: The EU adopts the “Cucumber Curvature Standard”. According to the regulation, premium cucumbers must be “well formed and practically straight”. A maximum of ten millimeters per ten centimeters of cucumber length is accepted as the “maximum curvature”. The European Commission repealed the controversial regulation on July 1, 2009.
2008: Four months following the declaration of independence from Serbia, the new Kosovo constitution comes into force.
2013: After eight years of conservative rule, Iran will in future be governed by a moderate candidate: the cleric Hassan Rouhani surprisingly won the presidential election in the first ballot and has been trying from day one to make people forget his radical predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the dispute over the nuclear program, Rohani is also sending signals that give hope for relaxation.
birthdays: Edvard Grieg, Norway. composer (1843-1907); Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Austria behaviorist (1928-2018); Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Danish politician (1943); Johnny Hallyday (actually Jean-Philppe Smet), French pop singer and actor (1943-2017); Antonia Rados, Austria TV journalist (1953); Xi Jinping, Chinese politician (1953); Helen Hunt, US actress (1963); Neil Patrick Harris, US actor (1973); Julia Fischer, German violinist (1983).
days of death: Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (1810-1893); Hume Cronyn, Canadian-US actor (1911-2003); Dieter Wellershoff, German writer (1925-2018); Yevgeny Kolobov, Russian conductor (1946-2003); Enoch zu Guttenberg, German conductor (1946-2018); James Hunt, British racing driver (1947-1993).
name days: Lothar, Gebhard, Vitus, Veit, Bernhard, Klara, Kreszentia, Modestus, Isfried, Germana, Georg.
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