2023-09-21 22:23:02
On Friday, September 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:
1733: Stanislaus I Leszczyński is elected King of Poland for the second time. (However, the father-in-law of the French King Louis XV had to flee from Russian intervention and was compensated with the Duchy of Lorraine in 1738).
1848: In Vienna, a Hungarian parliamentary delegation unsuccessfully asks the Austrian Reichstag to mediate in the conflict with the Croats loyal to the emperor, who are taking military action once morest Hungary under the leadership of Lieutenant Field Marshal Joseph Freiherr (later Count) von Jelačić.
1918: During fierce fighting on the Dosso Alto, Czech legionnaires fighting on the Entente side were taken prisoner by Austria.
1938: At the start of two days of talks in Bad Godesberg, Hitler demands that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hand over the Sudeten German territories by October 1st.
1948: Founding of the Free University of Berlin.
1968: The reconstruction of the Abu Simbel temples is completed.
1973: Henry Kissinger replaces William Rogers as US Secretary of State.
1983: French fighter pilots intervene in the civil war in Lebanon.
2003: The Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will succeed the British George Robertson as Secretary General of NATO.
Birthdays: Matthaeus Merian, Switzerland. Engraver (1593-1650); Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin, Swiss-French. physician (discoverer of the plague pathogen) (1863-1943); Hans Leip, German writer (1893-1983); Morley Edward Callaghan, Canadian. writer (1903-1990); Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexico. violin virtuoso (1918-1988); Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (“White Rose”) (1918-1943); Helmuth Froschauer, Eastern Kapellmeister and conductor (1933-2019); Andrea Bocelli, Italian star tenor (1958); Klaas Heufer-Umflauf, German television presenter and entertainer (1983).
Days of death: Lina Carstens, German actress (1892-1978); Leonore Mau, German photographer (1916-2013); Álvaro Mutis, Colombia writer (1923-2013); Manfred Vogel, Eastern Author/theater critic (1923-1983); Ottokar Runze, German director (1925-2018); Klaus Thalhammer, Eastern Bank manager; 1999-2003 general director. the Austrian Volksbank (1943-2003).
Name days: Moritz, Thomas, Mauritus, Gunthilde, Emmeran, Landelin, Otto, Gunilla, Ignatius.
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