December 23, 558: in Gaul, Clotaire I becomes king of the Franks
His name means “Army of Glory » in Old High German.
After the death of Clovis on 27 November 511, the Frankish kingdom was divided between Clotaire and his three brothers: Thierry IandClodomiro and Childebert Iand. Due to the right of the mother (maternity rights), it is attributed to the various queens, for their children, a portion of the kingdom taken “equal balance”. Clovis having had two wives, the kingdom was first divided in two. The eldest, Thierry, son of his first wife, is much favored by receiving the kingdom of Reims. Clotaire shares the second half with the other two brothers. Clotaire receives the northern part, Childebert the central part (kingdom of Paris) and Clodomir the southern part (kingdom of Orléans). The kingdom of Clotaire is formed by two parts, one in Belgian Gaul, corresponding to the kingdom of the Salian Franks, where he established his capital in Soissons and which includes the dioceses of Amiens, Arras, Saint-Quentin and Tournai, the other in Aquitaine Gaul comprising the dioceses of Agen, Bazas and Périgueux.
December 23, 1847: Surrender of Abd El-Kader, EmirAlgerian military resistance fighter and politician
Laws on the theater of war: Abd el-Kader, battle chief (1832-1847)
December 23, 1953: Execution of the leader and former head of the Soviet security services Lavrenti Beria with six of his “accomplices” (Vladimir Dekanozov, Vsevolod Merkoulov, Bogdan Koboulov, Sergo GoglidzeLev Vlodzimirsky, and Pavel Mechik).
December 23, 1910: Birth of the SS-brigade leader Kurt Meyer, nicknamed “Panzermeyer”
He fought in Poland, France, Greece, on the eastern front within the armored division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler then in Normandy as commander of 12th Panzer Division Hitler Youth.
Laws on the theater of war: The Battle of Normandy seen from the other side: the Allies face the « Baby Division »
December 13, 1972: Death of Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft manufacturer
He was a prominent designer from 1929 at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) in Moscow, where more than one hundred aircraft (the Tupolevs) were designed, including bombers (including the Tupolev Tu-26 or Tupolev Tu-2) and airliners such as the Tu-134 and Tu-154.
December 13, 2013: death at the age of 94 of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian engineer and lieutenant general, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle that bears his name.
