2023-05-15 22:55:54
Under Tuesday, May 16, the book of history records, among other things:
1648: The Dnieper Cossacks under their hetman Chmelnizki defeat an army of Polish knights at Korsun.
1703: Foundation of Saint Petersburg by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great: Construction of the Peter and Paul Fortress begins on an island in the Neva estuary. (1712 Saint Petersburg becomes the capital of the Russian Empire).
1803: England declares war on France.
1843: For the first time, telegrams are sent from Paddington to Slough (England) for a fee via a 35-kilometer telegraph line.
1853: In Prussia, children under the age of ten are banned from working.
1868: The Czech National Theater in Prague opens with the premiere of Bedřich Smetana’s opera “Dalibor”.
1888: German immigrant Emil Berliner demonstrates the gramophone he invented at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
1918: Bitter hand-to-hand fighting between Austrians and Italians in the area between Brenta and Piave.
1933: The names of around 130 authors who were rejected by the Nazi rulers are on the first “black list” of the “Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel”.
1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended with the complete destruction of the Jewish Quarter by German SS and police units, killing more than 56,000 Jews.
1958: General Charles de Gaulle offers himself to French President René Coty as mediator between the putschists in Algiers and the government in Paris.
1978: The coffin containing Charlie Chaplin’s corpse, stolen on March 2, is found buried in a field in Switzerland, and two suspected ransomware men are arrested.
1993: After the death of Turgut Özal, Süleyman Demirel is elected President of Turkey.
2003: In a suicide attack in the Moroccan metropolis of Casablanca, twelve Islamist assassins killed 31 people.
2003: After eight years in prison, Upper Austrian Peter Heidegger was finally acquitted of the murder of taxi driver Claudia Deubler. The crime happened on July 5, 1993, and the following year Heidegger was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2001 his application for reinstatement was granted. On April 27, 2007, two other suspects were convicted. Peter Heidegger receives compensation of 950,000 euros.
2008: According to a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Oscar Pistorius, who has a below-knee amputee due to a deformity, is allowed to start at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. The court in Lausanne upholds a lawsuit brought by the athlete once morest the World Athletics Association IAAF. However, Pistorius missed the athletic qualification for the games. In 2012 he qualified and became the first athlete in Olympic history to take part in the London Games.
birthdays: Woody Herman, US jazz musician (1913-1987); Merton H. Miller, US economist; Nobel Prize 1990 (1923-2000); Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor (1953); Mercedes Echerer, Austria actress and politician (1963); Robert Kratky, Austria radio host (1973); Tori Spelling, US actress (1973).
days of death: Albert Paris Gütersloh (actually Albert Conrad Kiehnfahrer), Austria. poet/painter (1887-1973); William Steinberg, German-US conductor (1899-1978); Eugen Ludwig Rapp, German theologian (1904-1977); Irwin Shaw, US writer (1913-1984); Marika Rökk, Austro-Hungarian Actress (1913-2004); Ieoh Ming Pei, Chinese-US architect (1917-2019); Fyodor Abramov, Russian writer (1920-1983); Lola Flores, Spanish actress and flamenco dancer (1923-1995); Sammy Davis Jr., US entertainer (1923 and 1925-1990 respectively); Gunnar Möller, German actor (1928-2017); Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (1928-2000); Valtr Komárek, Czech reform communist (1930-2013); Humbert Fink, Austria writer (1933-1992); Jim Henson, US puppeteer/maker (1936-1990); Marisa Mell, Austria film actress (1939-1992); Wolfgang Wiens, German director/dramaturg (1941-2012).
name days: Johann Nepomuk, Ubald, Peregrinus, Dietrich, Adelphus, Hans, Hannes, Adolf, Simon, Germar.
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