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23rd calendar week, 158th day of the year
207 days until the end of the year
Star sign Gemini
Name day: Dietger, Robert
HISTORICAL DATA
2020 – Activists of the “Black Lives Matter” movement overturn the statue of Southern General Williams Carter Wickham in Richmond, Virginia. In the English city of Bristol, the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston is thrown into the harbor.
2019 – In the Brexit dispute with her own party, Theresa May resigns as chairwoman of the British Conservatives. However, she remains Prime Minister until the handover to her successor Boris Johnson on July 24th.
2011 – US President Barack Obama awards Chancellor Angela Merkel the Freedom Medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States, at a state banquet in Washington.
2006 – Charlotte Knobloch is elected President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. She is the first woman to lead the political representation of the Jewish community.
2006 – The most wanted terrorist in Iraq, the Jordanian Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, is killed in a US air strike in Hibhib, north of Bakuba.
2001 – The Irish reject the EU Treaty of Nice in a referendum, thereby blocking the EU reform that is being sought for the time being.
1981 – Israeli warplanes destroy the Iraqi nuclear reactor “Osirak” which is under construction near Baghdad in a surprise attack.
1951 – The last executions of German war criminals in the Federal Republic take place in the prison of Landsberg am Lech under US sovereignty.
1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect and creator of the still unfinished Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, is hit by a tram in the Catalan capital and dies a few days later.
BIRTHDAYS
1981 – Anna Kurnikowa (40), Russian tennis player
1966 – Mark Ravenhill (55), British playwright (“Shopping and Fucking”, “Faust is Dead”)
1941 – Herbert Herrmann (80), German-Swiss actor (“Three are one too many”)
1928 – James Ivory (93), American director (“What was left of the day”, “Room with a view”)
1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, prime minister 1953-55 and during the Hungarian popular uprising of 1956, executed in 1958
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer (“The White Mountain”) and politician, Minister of Education 1988-91, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1994, born in 1923
1966 – Hans Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet, representative of Surrealism, born in 1886
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