The current calendar page for July 27, 2024

name day

Bertold, Lukan, Natalie

Historical data

1999 – A canyoning accident near Interlaken, Switzerland, kills 21 adventurous vacationers who are caught in a flash flood during a storm.

1964 – The German Bundesbank begins issuing 1,000-mark notes. These are the first banknotes of this value since the introduction of the Deutsche Mark in June 1948.

1949 – The world’s first jet aircraft, the De Havilland “Comet”, makes its maiden flight in England.

1794 – In Paris, French revolutionary Maximilien de Robespierre is overthrown and beheaded the next day.

1694 – The Bank of England is founded. It is the second oldest in the world, after the Swedish Central Bank (1668) and before the French Central Bank (1800).

Birthdays

1944 – Marlène Charell (80), German dancer, singer and revue star (TV program “The World Belongs to Women”)

1939 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer and inventor of the crime hero Pepe Carvalho, died 2003

1939 – William Eggleston (85), American photographer, is considered a pioneer in the field of artistic color photography

1909 – Hilde Domin, German writer (“Return of the Ships”, “I want you”), Rainer Maria Rilke Prize for Poetry 1976, died 2006

Days of death

1989 – Dolf Sternberger, German political scientist and writer (“From the Dictionary of Inhumans”), President of the German PEN Center (1964-1970), Director of the Heidelberg Institute for Political Science (1962-1979), born 1907

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