2023-05-18 22:11:33
Under Friday, May 19, the book of history records, among other things:
1218: The deposed Emperor Otto IV dies in the Harzburg, leaving the Guelph Treasure in the Brunswick Cathedral.
1568: The English Queen Elizabeth I has the Scottish Queen Maria Stuart, who fled to England, captured. The Catholic monarch is executed following 19 years in prison, her son James VI. becomes the successor of her adversary.
1643: The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven combine to form the New England Confederation.
1883: The adventurer Buffalo Bill (actually William Cody) starts in Omaha, Nebraska with a Wild West show on the first tour through the USA, Canada and Europe.
1908: The Russian singer Fyodor Chaliapin appears in his star role as “Boris Godunov” for the first time in Paris.
1918: Pope Benedict XV confers legal force on the Codex Iuris Canonici. It becomes the authoritative legal code of the Roman Catholic Church.
1918: Major German Luftwaffe attack on London.
1923: In Trier, an attempted coup by armed separatists who want to set up an autonomous “Rhenish Republic” fails.
1928: The Paris tennis facility “Roland Garros” with 8,000 spectator seats is inaugurated. The reason for the construction of the arena was the French Davis Cup victory the year before.
1933: The German Reich Ministry of Propaganda issued a reporting ban on the International Labor Conference meeting in Geneva.
1943: Churchill addresses both houses of the US Congress in Washington and sets out his ideas for reshaping Europe following the war.
1943: In a “Führer Decree” Hitler orders “internationally bound persons to be kept away from authoritative bodies in the state, party and armed forces”. The order is directed once morest members of noble families and business circles with family ties abroad.
1953: In Bonn, the economic and social integration of ethnic German refugees and expellees is regulated by law. A uniform nationwide definition of displaced persons and refugees will be established.
1963: The Indonesian parliament elects President Ahmed Sukarno as head of state for life.
1973: The Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits the Federal Republic of Germany for the first time.
1973: Carinthia’s governor Hans Sima is voted out of office as SPÖ state chairman by the state party conference. His successor is Leopold Wagner.
1983: The 41 dioxin barrels from Seveso (Italy) that have disappeared since autumn 1982 are found in a warehouse near Saint Quentin (France).
1993: The contract for the purchase of the French anti-aircraft missile “Mistral” for the army is signed.
2003: After peace talks failed, the Indonesian army launched an offensive once morest the separatists in the former Sultanate of Aceh on the island of Sumatra.
2018: At the wedding of the year, British Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle exchange vows at Windsor Castle. Among the 600 guests are numerous celebrities such as actors, musicians and sports stars. Tens of thousands line the streets of Windsor for the bride and groom’s carriage ride in glorious sunshine, while millions of TV viewers around the world watch live. On October 15, it was announced that the couple was expecting their first child.
birthdays: Claude Vignon, French painter (1593-1670); André Kaminski, Swiss writer (1923-1991); Pol Pot, Cambodian politician and dictator (1928-1998); Grace Jones, Jamaican-US actress and singer (1948) (according to other sources 1950 or 1952).
days of death: Ferdinand Hodler, Switzerland. painter (1853-1918); Robert Indiana (aka Robert Clark), US painter, representative of Pop Art (1928-2018); Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (1945-1973).
name days: Ivo, Kuno, Peter, Alcuin, Potential, Reinbrecht, Zolestin, Yvonne, Verena, Hadulf, Job, Dunstan.
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