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1388: Count Palatine Ruprecht I defeats the Rhenish League of Cities near Worms.
1793: The Duke of Orléans (with the revolutionary name “Philippe Égalité”, which was intended to express his anti-aristocratic sentiments) is executed, although he had voted in the National Convention for the death of his cousin, the dethroned King Louis XVI.
1813: The freedom fighter José María Morelos y Pavón proclaims Mexico’s independence from the Spanish crown in Chilpacingo. (Under the onslaught of an intervention army, the revolution collapsed in 1815 and Morelos was executed).
1888: In the US presidential election, the Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland received the most votes, but the Republican Benjamin Harrison won more electoral votes and was elected the 23rd President of the United States (until 1893).
1913: Despite the ban, the Indian Mahatma Gandhi, who lives in South Africa, crosses the border between South Africa and the Transvaal with his followers to protest once morest the government’s racial segregation policy.
1918: The Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla arrives in Budapest. After the peace agreement, it will be divided between Yugoslavia and Romania.
1923: The Škoda factory in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, starts automobile production with licenses from Hispano-Suiza.
1938: Hungarian troops move into the areas that Czechoslovakia had to cede due to the “Vienna Arbitration Award”.
1943: Carl Orff’s “Catulli carmini” premieres in Leipzig.
1968: Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
1973: The nine EC foreign ministers agreed in Brussels on a joint statement on the Middle East conflict and called for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories.
1973: After a 0-0 draw in Moscow, the Soviet national football team refuses to play in the second leg in Chile and forgoes qualifying for the World Cup.
1978: CSU leader Franz-Josef Strauss will succeed Alfons Goppel as Prime Minister of Bavaria.
1978: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi installs a military government in Iran.
1983: The first parliamentary elections are taking place in Turkey since the military coup in 1980. Only three parties are allowed. Victory of the liberal Motherland Party (ANAP) led by Turgut Özal.
1988: Soviet civil rights campaigner and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov embarks on his first trip abroad in 30 years.
2003: In the trade dispute with the USA, the EU decides to impose punitive tariffs on US imports worth up to 4 billion dollars (3.49 billion euros).
2003: The British Conservatives elect former Home Secretary Michael Howard as the new opposition leader (to replace the voted-out Iain Duncan Smith).
2003: A new giant is emerging in the music industry: Bertelsmann and Sony are merging their music divisions to form Sony BMG.
2008: SPÖ and ÖVP make the first breakthrough in their coalition negotiations and agree to bring forward the tax reform to 2009.
2008: Coronation of Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck as King of Buthan. His father King Jigme Singye Wangchuck handed over the office to his son on July 21, 2006. At this point, Jigme Khesar is the youngest head of state in the world at 28 years old.
Birthdays: Jonas Lie, Norway. writer (1833-1908); Blanka Glossy, Austrian actress (1893-1952); Rudolf Langer, German writer (1923-2007); Renato Capecchi, Italian singer (1923-1998); Lotte Hass, Eastern. Underwater pioneer (1928-2015); Glenn Lewis Frey, US rock musician and guitarist; “The Eagles” (1948-2016); Jerry Yang, US electrical engineer and Taiwanese entrepreneur. Origin; 1994 Founding of the Internet service “Yahoo!” together with David Filo (1968); Nicole Hosp, former Austrian alpine skier (1983); Emma Stone, US actress (1988); Conchita Wurst (born Thomas Neuwirth), Austrian Singer/travesty artist (1988).
Days of death: Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans (1747-1793); Sir William Henry Preece, British communications mechanic and inventor; In 1892 he developed a wireless telegraphy system (1834-1913); Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1840-1893); Charles Münch, French conductor (1891-1968); Wolfgang Stresemann, German ex-director of the Berlin Philharmonic (1904-1998).
Name days: Christina, Leonhard, Erdmann, Protasius, Modesta, Rudolf, Valentin, Sibylle, Gustav Adolf.
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