Under Wednesday, June 2, the book of history records, among other things:
1746: War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Russia enter into an alliance against Prussia and the Ottoman Empire.
1816: Haiti abolishes slavery under President Alexandre Pétion.
1881: Georg Ritter von Schönerer founds the “German National Association” with the aim of closer alignment with Germany.
1906: The Teltow Canal, which connects the Havel and Spree to the south of Berlin, is opened in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
1916: The Suez Canal is closed due to an expected Turkish offensive.
1946: Referendum on the form of government in Italy: 12.1 million vote for the republic, 10.3 million for maintaining the monarchy. King Umberto II has to leave the country.
1966: The US lunar probe Surveyor-1 lands after a three-day flight on the moon in the Sea of Storms. It transmits excellent images of the lunar surface.
1986: After a six-month stay in the USA, Jelena Bonner is returning to her husband Andrei Sakharov, who is living in exile in Gorky.
1991: For the first time, the ICE high-speed train travels the Hamburg-Munich route at a maximum speed of 280 km / h.
2006: The UN AIDS conference in New York comes to an end without any firm financial commitments. After three days of deliberations, the final declaration only states that by 2010 the equivalent of almost 23 billion dollars (18 billion euros) would be needed annually in the fight against the immunodeficiency disease.
Birthdays: Karl Ritter von Halt, dt. Sports Officer (1891-1964); Carlo Scarpa, ital. Architect / Designer (1906-1978); Bazon Brock, dt. Artist / Theorist (1936); Stacy Keach Jr., American actor (1941); Inga Nielsen, then. Singer (1946-2008); Lasse Hallström, Sweden. Film director (1946).
Days of Death: Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (1607-1701); Fred von Hoerschelmann, German writer (1901-1976); Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (1928-1996).
Name days: Erasmus, Stephen, Armin, Andrew Stephan, Ephraim Uldarich, Blandine Alexander.
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