1416: Duke Friedrich IV. Of Austria (called “Friedel with the empty pocket”), who at the Council of Constance because of his help for the antipope John XXIII. was ostracized by Emperor Sigismund and held hostage, fled and returned to Tyrol.
1806: Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Emperor Napoleon I, becomes King of Naples.
1856: In the Peace of Paris, which ended the Crimean War, Russia had to cede Bessarabia and the Danube Delta to the Principality of Moldova and commit to demilitarize the Black Sea.
1941: In front of 200 high-ranking officers, Hitler announced that the war would be waged without respect for the provisions of the law of war.
1981: US President Ronald Reagan is seriously injured in a revolver attack in Washington. Sagittarius is 25-year-old John Hinckley.
1986: In South Korea there are mass demonstrations against the regime of the military dictator General Chun Doo Hwan.
1986: A rescue helicopter crashed at night near Taunusstein in Germany, and all four inmates were killed.
1991: Referendum in Georgia: overwhelming majority for independence.
2016: The former military dictatorship of Myanmar has a democratically elected government again for the first time in more than half a century.
Birthdays: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter / etcher / lithographer (1746-1828); Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (1811-1899); Erika Mitterer, east. Writer (1906-2001); Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish IKEA founder (1926-2018); Wolfgang Niedecken, German rock musician (1951); Sergio Ramos, Spanish football player (1986).
Days of Death: Erwin Piscator, German theater director (1893-1966); James Cagney, US actor (1899-1986); Kurt Neuburger, German author (1902-1996); Silvia Monfort, French actress (1923-1991).
Name days: Amadeus, Roswitha, Quirin, Dietmut, Patto, Wido, Guido, Bodo, Johannes, Angela, Gregor.
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