If it freezes today on St. Vital, it will freeze for another 40 days. It’s Vlastislav’s holiday.
Today is the International Day of Safety at Work.
Today is Vratislav Brabenec’s 81st birthday.
1,800 years ago today, in the Battle of Hormozdgan, a Persian army under the Sasanian Ardashir defeats Parthian troops, ending half a millennium of Parthian rule in the Iranian region.
Today, 1,048 years ago, at a meeting of church dignitaries with the archbishop of Mainz, in addition to Prague bishop Dětmar, a Moravian bishop is recorded, which is the first historical mention of this function since Great Moravia.
413 years ago today, the Pontifical and Royal University of St. Tomas, currently the largest Catholic university in the world.
235 years ago today, the mutinous crew of the Bounty put the captain and 18 sailors on a boat and set sail for Pitcairn Island.
232 years ago today, France begins its series of revolutionary wars in the field by occupying the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium and Luxembourg).
175 years ago today, Prussian King Frederick William IV. delivered an offer to the Diet of Frankfurt to assume the All-German Imperial Crown in the spirit of the Constitution, which the Diet of Frankfurt accepted. Bedřich Vilém rejects the offer, thereby delaying the unification of Germany by about 30 years.
145 years ago today, the Bulgarian National Assembly in Veliko Tarnovo approves the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, which will remain in force until 1947.
118 years ago today, Kurt Gödel, one of the three most fundamental logicians in history, was born in Brno.
116 years ago today, Oskar Schindler, the one with the list, was born in Svitavy.
106 years ago today, Gavrilo Princip dies in Terezín, a victim of brainwashing by Great Serbian propaganda, a lethal tool in the hands of the most poisonous fruit of the modern age, fanatical nationalism.
104 years ago today, after being occupied by the Red Army, Azerbaijan was annexed to the Soviet Union, the first Muslim country to adopt parliamentary democracy, introduce women’s suffrage and establish the first modern university in the Muslim world in Baku. But Lenin really needed the oil…
101 years ago today in London’s Wembley, the stadium intended for the British Empire Exhibition, which was to be demolished after its conclusion, opened to the public. It didn’t happen, and instead of uplifting exhibition artefacts, the likes of Wembley Stadium still host matches of inferior sporting entertainment.
79 years ago today, Benito Mussolini and his lover Klara Petacci were shot to death by a detachment of communist partisans.
Terry Pratchett was born 76 years ago today.
74 years ago today, an illegitimate council of the Greek Catholic Church met in Prešov, whose task is to abolish the church and assign it to Orthodoxy.
