2023-06-05 22:36:48
Under Tuesday, June 6, the book of history records, among other things:
1513: Swiss troops defeat a French-Venetian army in the Battle of Novara. King Louis XII France is thereby forced to retreat across the Alps.
1523: Gustav I Eriksson, progenitor of the Wasa (Vasa) dynasty (ruling until 1654), is elected King of Sweden in Strängnäs. With the country’s liberation from Danish rule, the Kalmar Union of the three Nordic kingdoms ended in 1397.
1793: Emperor Franz II is crowned King of Hungary in Ofen.
1838: US government troops raid Cherokee Indian settlements in southern Appalachia. More than a third perish in the violent evacuation of 18,000 tribesmen, which has gone down in history as the “Way of Tears”.
1918: First World War: Lively artillery battles on the South Tyrol and Piave fronts.
1928: The opera “The Egyptian Helena” by Richard Strauss is premiered in Dresden.
1928: Kuomintang-Truppen unter General Tschiang Kai-schek (Jiang Jieshi) erobern Peking.
1933: The world’s first 400-seat drive-in cinema opens in Camden, New Jersey.
1938: At a refugee conference in Evian on Lake Geneva, Nazi politician Alfred Rosenberg suggested that the island of Madagascar be used as an emigration country for Jews.
1988: The first “Draken” (Swedish interceptors of the type Saab-35-OF-Draken) acquired by the army land at Graz-Thalerhof airfield. Violent protests by the “Anti-Draken Front” led by the Styrian governor Josef Krainer.
2003: In Washington, doubts regarding the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are fueled by revelations by the secret services. UN Chief Inspector Hans Blix explains that the secret service documents presented to him at the time were largely unusable.
2013: After almost 40 years, Austria is putting an end to its presence in the Golan Heights and, in view of the increasing frequency of violations of the ceasefire zone in the context of the Syrian civil war, is withdrawing the domestic blue helmets from the UN mission. All Austrians are home within eight weeks. After several days of searching, the surprised UNO finds a replacement in the form of soldiers from the Fiji Islands.
2013: With a report in the British newspaper “The Guardian”, according to which the American secret service NSA has access to the telephone data of millions of US residents, a data misuse scandal of global proportions is beginning to take shape. A few days later, 29-year-old Edward Snowden, who worked for the NSA for several years, revealed himself as the source. In the following months, the “Guardian” uses Snowden’s documents to uncover more and more spying actions by the secret service both inside and outside the USA. After a long odyssey, Snowden, who is fleeing the US authorities, is granted asylum in Russia.
birthdays: Robert F. Scott, British polar explorer (1868-1912); Ninette de Valois, British dancer/choreographer (1898-2001); Aram Khachaturian, Soviet composer (1903-1978); Jiří Hájek, Czech civil rights activist (1913-1993); Trude Marzik (actually Edeltraud Marczik), Austrian writer (1923-2016); Heinrich Rohrer, Switzerland. Physicist; Nobel Prize 1986 (1933-2013); Richard Smalley, US chemist; Nobel Prize 1996 (1943-2005).
days of death: Louis Jean Lumière, French chemist (1864-1948); Hans Leip, German writer (1893-1983); Esther Williams, US swimmer and actress (1921-2013); Robert F. Kennedy, US politician (1925-1968); James Bridges, US film director (1931-1993).
name days: Norbert, Bertrand, Benignus, Claudia, Claudius, Giselbert, Falko, Kevin, Vinzenz, Simeon.
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