2023-10-27 22:32:46
On Saturday, October 28th, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: The American engineer Eli Whitney invents the cotton ginning machine, with the help of which the US cotton industry achieves its preeminent position.
1908: Conversations with Kaiser Wilhelm II published in London’s “Daily Telegraph” put a strain on German relations with Great Britain due to clumsy wording and triggered a constitutional crisis in Germany.
1918: The Czechoslovak Republic is proclaimed in Prague.
1918: Allied troops break through the Austro-Hungarian Piave Front.
1918: Beginning of the mutiny on the German High Seas Fleet.
1958: The Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected as Pius XII’s successor. elected Pope and takes the name John XXIII. which had already been led by the antipope Baldassare Cossa in the 15th century.
1973: The first Egyptian-Israeli military talks in 17 years are taking place in Sinai. The first units of a new UN peacekeeping force arrive in the Middle East.
1988: 85 people are arrested in the CSSR on the occasion of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the state.
1988: After almost three weeks, the two surviving gray whales trapped in pack ice on the north coast of Alaska are free once more. The liberation operation, in which environmentalists and also the USA and the USSR took part, cost almost 1.5 million dollars.
2008: The National Council Presidium is newly elected. Barbara Prammer (SPÖ) and Michael Spindelegger (ÖVP) retain their positions, and the new addition is the FPÖ mandate Martin Graf, who is controversial because of his membership in the powerful “Olympia” association, and who clearly prevails once morest the Green Alexander Van der Bellen.
Birthdays: Eliphalet Remington, US inventor (1793-1861); Karl Farkas, Eastern cabaret artist (1893-1971); Evelyn Waugh, British writer (1903-1966); Richard Häussler, German director, stage and film actor (1908-1964); Alfred Schwetz, Eastern ORF director (1908-1996); Harry Frederick Oppenheimer, South Africa. industrialist (1908-2000); Peter Glenville, British director (1913-1996); Cornelia Froboess, German actress (1943); Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop singer (1963).
Days of death: Edd Stavjanik, Eastern actor (1927-2008); Ted Hughes, British poet laureate (1930-1998).
Name days: Simon, Judas, Alfred, Ermelinde, Anastasia, Fidelius, Luzian, Cyril, Faro, Franz.
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