Under Saturday, June 5, the book of history records, among other things:
1741: In the Treaty of Breslau, France guarantees Prussia the possession of Silesia.
1806: The French Emperor Napoléon converts the Batavian Republic, founded in 1795 and dependent on France, into the Kingdom of Holland. He makes his brother Louis Bonaparte king.
1876: The Deutz gas engine factory, in which Nikolaus August Otto is involved, applies for a patent for the four-stroke engine invented by Otto.
1916: The British armored cruiser “Hampshire” runs into a mine near the Orkney Islands. Among the 685 dead is Army Minister and war hero Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener.
1926: In the British-Turkish Treaty of Mosul, Iraq is awarded the oil-rich Kurdish region around Mosul.
1946: In a fire at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, 61 people died in the flames.
1981: The US health authority CDC announces the first AIDS cases.
1991: Bloody clashes between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces lead to the declaration of a state of emergency in Algeria.
Birthdays: Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish entrepreneur (1881-1961); Kurt Hahn, German-British Pedagogue (1886-1974); Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, German landowner (1926-1990); Martha Argerich, bad. Pianist (1941); Volker Eckstein, German actor (1946-1993); Mark Wahlberg, US actor (1971).
Days of Death: Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (1740-1816); Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (1786-1826); Josef Gänsbacher, east. Music pedagogue and voice trainer (1829-1911); Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (1842-1906); Earl Horatio Herbert Kitchener, British Field Marshal (1850-1916); Georges Feydau, French playwright (1862-1921); Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer and scientist (1908-2001); Emmy Putzinger, east. Figure skater (1921-2001).
Name days: Bonifaz, Winfried, Meinwerk, Ferdinand, Volker, Emilie, Michael, Felix.
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