On Thursday, July 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:
1711: Tsar Peter the Great is trapped by the Turks with his army on the Prut and can only buy his way out through bribery and the return of Azov.
1906: In an imperial ukase from Tsar Nicholas II, the first Reich Duma (parliament) in Russia is dissolved because of its radical direction.
1936: Hitler-Germany pledges support for the Franco insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
1941: The German air force attacks Moscow for the first time.
1941: As before in Serbia and Montenegro, the fight of the Tito partisans against the German occupation forces begins in Slovenia.
1946: In New York, representatives from 61 countries found the World Health Organization (WHO).
1981: The Turkish pope assassin Ali Ağca is sentenced to life imprisonment in Rome.
1986: The British House of Commons abolishes corporal punishment in schools with a narrow majority.
1986: In protest against the meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister Peres with King Hassan II of Morocco, Syria breaks off relations with Rabat.
1986: The former Bhagwan confidante “Ma Anand” Sheela is sentenced to nine years imprisonment in Portland / Oregon for offenses in the excommune.
2011: The 32-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik murdered 69 participants in a social democratic youth camp on the island of Utøya. Shortly before, eight people were killed by a car bomb he had placed in the government district of Oslo. Breivik’s “motive”: “Saving Europe from cultural Marxism and Islamization”.
2011: According to the websites of various parties, this time hackers hacked the GIS (Fee Info Service) homepage and downloaded numerous customer data. The Anonymous group is committed to the deed and subsequently steals, among other things, data from police officers and insured persons from the Tyrolean GKK.
Birthdays: Mikhail Feodorowitsch, Tsar of Russia (1596-1645); Anthony Ashley Cooper, British statesman (1621-1683); Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, east. Painter / graphic artist (1881-1965); Hans Pemmer, east Local history explorer (1886-1972); David Rokeah, Israel. Poet (1916-1985); Bryan Forbes, British film director (1926-2013); George Clinton, US-amer. Funk musician (1941); Erwin Keusch, Switzerland. Filmmaker (1946); Danny Glover, US actor (1946); Mireille Mathieu, French chansonette (1946); Petre Roman, around. Politician (1946); Richard Bennett, US guitarist (1951).
Days of Death: Charles VII, King of France (1403-1461); Josef Kaulich, east. Composer (1827-1901); Peter Ludwig, German manufacturer / art collector (1925-1996); Herbert Walther, German physicist (1935-2006).
Name days: Maria Magdalena, Verena, Magdalena, Einhard, Marlene, Josef, Eberhard.
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