2023-06-04 22:32:44
Under Monday, June 5, the book of history records, among other things:
1288: In the Battle of Worringen, the Limburg succession dispute is decided in favor of Duke John I of Brabant.
1568: The Dutch Counts Egmont and Hoorne are beheaded in Brussels by order of the Spanish Captain General, the Duke of Alba.
1783: Brothers Étienne Jacques and Michel Joseph de Montgolfier launch a canvas, paper-lined, hemp-net-covered unmanned hot-air balloon in the town of Annonay for a tethered flight. On September 19, animals are sent into the air with a “Montgolfière”; on November 21, 1783, the first manned flight takes place.
1883: Inspired by the American George Mortimer Pullman, the Belgian Georges Nagelmackers founded the Orient Express, which ran for the first time from the Paris train station “Gare de l’Est” to Constantinople (today Istanbul). The train played a very important role politically, diplomatically, economically and culturally (according to other sources October 4).
1933: Signing of the Concordat concluded by Federal Chancellor Dollfuss between Austria and the Holy See. It comes into force on May 1, 1934 at the same time as the corporate state constitution and gives the Catholic Church significant influence on the school system and marriage law.
1953: The Kingdom of Denmark gets a new constitution allowing female succession.
1963: British Army Secretary Profumo resigns over his relationship with model Christine Keeler.
1968: The former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who is running for the Democratic presidential candidacy, is assassinated in Los Angeles. He succumbed to his injuries the following day.
1983: At least 240 people are killed in a shipwreck on the Volga near Ulyanovsk.
1993: 23 Pakistani soldiers are killed in fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
1993: In the first free parliamentary elections in over 50 years, the “Latvian Way”, an alliance of reform communists and emigrants led by former Communist Party chief Anatoly Gorbunov, won. Valdis Birkavs becomes prime minister.
2003: The German FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann dies in a parachute jump.
2008: The Turkish constitutional court has overturned the government’s decision to lift the headscarf ban at universities. At the same time, it is initiating proceedings to ban Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s pro-Islamic AKP party. With its decision, the court triggers a political earthquake in Turkey.
birthdays: Thomas Chippendale, English cabinet maker (1718-1779); Adam Smith, Scottish political economist/moral philosopher (baptized 5 June, exact date of birth unknown) (1723-1790); John Maynard Keynes, British economist (1883-1946); Max Picard, Switzerland. writer (1888-1965); Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (1898-1936); Friedrich Wildgans, Austria composer and clarinet virtuoso (1913-1965); Tony Richardson, English Director (1928-1991); Otto F.Walter, German writer (1928-1994); Fernando Meira, formerly Portuguese. Soccer Player (1978).
days of death: Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Austria pianist/composer (1794-1868); Kurt Tank, German aircraft designer (1898-1983); Georg Chaimowicz, Austria painter/graphist (1929-2003); Jürgen W. Möllemann, German politician (1945-2003); Kate Spade, US designer (1962-2018).
name days: Bonifaz, Winfried, Meinwerk, Ferdinand, Volker, Emilie, Michael, Felix.
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