2023-06-03 22:27:06
Under Sunday, June 4, the book of history records, among other things:
1133: Pope Innocent II crowns Lothar III. in the Lateran to the Emperor.
1878: The Ottoman Empire must agree to the establishment of a British administration on the island of Cyprus.
1928: The Berlin cab driver Gustav Hartmann, known as the “Eiserne Gustav”, arrives in Paris with his horse-drawn cab after having set off from Berlin on April 1st. He wants to use the ride to draw attention to the downfall of a trade.
1988: At least 68 people are killed in the explosion of freight cars loaded with explosives in the Soviet city of Gorky.
1993: Franz Vranitzky is re-elected party leader at the SPÖ party congress with 97 percent of the votes.
2003: Middle East Summit in Aqaba in Jordan: US President George W. Bush meets Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Sharon promises to clear some of the illegally built settlements, and Abbas calls on the militant groups to end the Intifada and call for a ceasefire on Israel.
2003: The “Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize” is presented for the first time in Stockholm. The winners are the Austrian children’s book author Christine Nöstlinger and the American author Maurice Sendak.
2008: The 46-year-old African American Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party’s presidential candidacy at the end of a bitter primary campaign.
birthdays: George III, King of England (1738-1820); Yevgeny Mravinsky, Soviet conductor (1903-1988); Bruno Bettinelli, Italian composer (1913-2004); Stephanie Atanasov, Austria Mezzo-soprano (1983).
days of death: Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, Italian adventurer/writer (1725-1798); Mechtilde (Christiane Maria) Lichnowsky, German writer (1879-1958); Walther Johann Jacobs, German industrialist (1907-1998); Leopold Rudolf, Austria actor (1911-1978); Maria Singer, Austrian-German Actress (1914-2003); Joey Covington, US drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (1945-2013).
name days: Christa, Werner, Franz, Clothilde, Carpasius, Irmfried, Quirin, Maria.
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