Rainy today on Saint Mark’s – seven weeks of mud.
Today is World Malaria Day.
Today is Al Pacino’s 84th birthday, Josef Dvořák’s 82nd, Pavlo Šporcl’s 51st.
652 years ago today, the Faculty of Law separated from the University of Prague as an independent law university. It will disappear with the beginning of the Hussite storms.
565 years ago today, Jiří from Poděbrady concluded an agreement with Duke William III of Saxony in Cheb. on the borders between the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Duchy of Saxony. The Czech-Saxon border is thus one of the oldest still valid borders in Europe.
338 years ago today, Jan Jiří Benda was born, weaver and village musician, founder of a well-known dynasty of musicians.
305 years ago today, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York was published in London.
Anders Celsius, the one with the scale, dies 280 years ago today.
232 years ago today, Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was executed in Paris for theft – the first convict to be beheaded by the guillotine.
216 years ago today, the preparatory committee of the Unity for the Improvement of Music in Bohemia publishes a statement that is considered to be the founding of the Prague Conservatory, the first in Central and Eastern Europe, the third in Europe after Paris and Milan. It suffered then…
201 years ago today, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I was born, who enforced the Tanzimat – fundamental reforms in the organization of the army, tax collection, state administration, education and the equalization of the population. During his reign, the Ottoman Empire was officially recognized as an equal member of the family of European nations at the Paris Congress.
165 years ago today, the British and French begin construction of the Suez Canal.
150 years ago today, G. Marconi, the one without wires, was born.
88 years ago today, Jan Břetislav Procházka and Jindřich Kubias set off in a Škoda Rapid on a journey around the world, which they completed after 97 days.
79 years ago today, the Russian and American armies meet on the Elbe near Thorgau – Nazi Germany is so divided by its branches.
And in Italy, the fascist regime of B. Mussolini, who unsuccessfully tries to escape, falls.
71 years ago today, F. Crick and JD Watson publish a paper describing the double helix structure of DNA.
63 years ago today, R. Noyce receives a patent for an integrated circuit.
50 years ago today, anti-regime demonstrations erupt in Portugal, the Carnation Revolution, which will lead to the fall of Salazar’s Estado Novo and the establishment of a standard liberal democracy.
36 years ago today, a series of strikes lasting several months will break out in Poland, which will eventually lead to the Round Table Agreements and the fall of the Bolshevik regime.
Ivan M. Havel dies 3 years ago today.
