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1239: Pope Gregory IX After his victory over the Lombard League, Emperor Frederick II once more imposed a ban from which the Hohenstaufens might no longer break free. (For the first time, Frederick was banned by the Pope in 1227 as the “antichrist incarnate”).
1619: Emperor Matthias, who had ousted his brother Rudolf II, dies in Vienna. His cousin Ferdinand II from the Styrian (inner Austrian) line of the Habsburgs, who had already been crowned King of Hungary and Bohemia, ascended the throne.
1904: The first adult education day to promote adult education begins in Vienna.
1919: Formation of a communist council government under Béla Kun in Hungary.
1939: In the courtyard of Berlin’s main fire station, around 1,000 oil paintings and 4,000 watercolors are burned as – according to the German Nazi rulers – “degenerate art”.
1944: In Budapest, the Gestapo “control center” for the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Nazi German extermination camps begins its work.
1949: The Western Allies declare the D-Mark to be the sole means of payment in the western sectors of Berlin.
1949: The Belgian government sets up a special commission with the task of investigating the behavior of the exiled King Leopold III. during the time of the Nazi German occupation.
1954: After the radioactive contamination of Japanese fishermen by a US hydrogen bomb explosion, the USA is expanding the restricted area around the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific to a radius of 1,400 kilometers.
1969: The crash of a plane carrying Mecca pilgrims near Aswan in Egypt leaves around 100 dead.
1974: An assassination attempt is made on Princess Anne, the daughter of the British Queen, in London. Four people are injured and the attacker is sent to a psychiatric institution.
1994: The first democratic elections are taking place in El Salvador following the end of the twelve-year civil war. The strongest force will be the right-wing extremist ARENA party.
2004: Charges have been brought once morest six US military police officers who are said to have severely mistreated Iraqi prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib detention center near Baghdad.
2004: The former Dutch Queen Juliana, who abdicated in 1980 in favor of her eldest daughter Beatrix, dies at Soestdijk Castle at the age of 94.
2009: The SoKo Doping investigations lead to the arrest of an athlete for a doping offense for the first time in Austria. Cyclist Christoph K. is arrested and, like other suspects, including sports manager Stefan Matschiner and ex-cross-country skiing coach Walter Mayer, is held in custody for weeks. The SoKo criminal investigators are questioning a total of 400 people, 15 are temporarily in custody.
2019: A good 20 years following the genocide in Srebrenica, the politically responsible person, the Bosnian ex-Serb leader Radovan Karadžić (73), was finally and legally sentenced to life imprisonment in his appeal process.
Birthdays: Börries Baron von Münchhausen, German poet (1874-1945); Burrhus F. Skinner, American psychologist (1904-1990); Ernst Topitsch, Eastern. philosopher and sociologist (1919-2003); Ilse Tielsch, Eastern writer (1929-2023); David Malouf, Australian. Writer (1934); Brian Mulroney, Canadian. politician (1939-2024); Josip Bozanić, Croatian. Theologian, former Archbishop of Zagreb (1949); Christoph Ransmayr, Eastern Writer (1954); Carsten Ramelow, former German soccer player (1974); Fernando Torres, former Spanish football player and current coach (1984).
Days of death: Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order of Knights (1170-1239); Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom hero (1802-1894); Franz Ritter von Hauer, Eastern. paleontologist (1822-1899); Austin Clarke, Irish writer (1896-1974); Cesare Musatti, Italian psychoanalyst (1897-1989); Juliana of Orange-Nassau, Queen of the Netherlands 1948-80 (1909-2004).
Name days: Irmgard, Wolfram, Hubert, Nicetas, Eberhard, Ruprecht, Claudia, Deogratias.
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