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1849: King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia concludes a truce with Field Marshal Radetzky.
1929: The first perfect television recording was made in Berlin.
1939: Poland rejects German demands for an extraterritorial corridor to East Prussia.
1954: With a declaration by the Soviet government, the full sovereignty of the GDR is established.
1954: The USA is carrying out its second hydrogen bomb test with a yield of 17 megatons in the Pacific Ocean.
1959: In 123 minutes including refueling time, three Brits crossed the English Channel for the first time in a hovercraft.
1979: Egyptian President Sadat and Israel’s Prime Minister Begin sign the first Middle East peace treaty in modern history (Camp David Accords) in Washington. Most Arab states then broke off relations with Egypt.
1989: In the elections to the first Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies, Soviet citizens will be able to choose between several candidates for the first time in 70 years.
1999: In Berlin, the EU heads of state and government agree on a compromise to reform agricultural and structural policy as well as EU financing (Agenda 2000).
2004: In Poland, the ruling left-wing alliance is splitting up and its poll numbers are catastrophic.
2009: The Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko officially takes up the office of High International Representative in Bosnia in Sarajevo. Inzko, most recently ambassador to Slovenia, is also the EU special representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2019: The European Parliament votes to end the time change. A large majority of Strasbourg MPs are in favor of clocks changing to permanent summer or winter time for the last time in 2021. The EU parliamentarians are also calling for coordination between the EU states in order to prevent time chaos. The final decision lies with the EU states, which has been dragging on ever since. The Austrian federal government is in favor of permanent summer time.
Birthdays: Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, eastern. theologian (1559-1617); Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (1794-1872); Robert Lee Frost, US poet (1874-1963); Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian. singer (1894-1985); William Childs Westmoreland, US general (1914-2005); Alan Wolf Arkin, US actor (1934-2023); Diana Ross, US singer and actress (1944); Patrick Süskind, German writer (1949); Jutta Speidel, German actress (1954); Manuel Rubey, Eastern singer and actor (1979); Felix Neureuther, former German ski racer (1984).
Days of death: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French doctor (1738-1814); Raymond Chandler, US writer (1888-1959); Günther Weisenborn, German writer (1902-1969); Sékou Ahmed Touré, Guinean politician (1922-1984).
Name days: Ludger, Leodogar, Emanuel, Larissa, Kastulus, Vera, Ortrun, Ortwin, Irenaeus, Theodor.
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