Under Saturday, March 20, the book of history records, among other things:
1811: Napoleon Franz Joseph Karl (later Napoleon II) was born in Paris. He is the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, the daughter of Emperor Franz I. The child is given the title “King of Rome” at birth. (“Duke of Reichstadt” after the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire).
1921: In the referendum in Upper Silesia provided for in the Versailles Treaty, 59.6 percent of the participants vote for the industrial area to remain with Germany.
1941: The Greek government asks Germany in vain to broker an Italian-Greek armistice.
1941: When Hitler bestowed the “oak leaves” on Erwin Rommel, who later became Field Marshal, the public first learned of the existence of the German Africa Corps, which has been operating in Libya since February.
1956: Tunisia, a French protectorate since 1882, becomes a sovereign state as a constitutional monarchy under the ruling Bey Mohammed VIII. Al Amin (Lamine). (1957 under Habib Bourguiba Republic).
1976: British Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI. and sister of Elizabeth II, separates after eighteen years of marriage from Lord Snowdon, the former photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.
1976: In San Francisco, the newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is found guilty of a bank robbery.
1986: After the victory of the bourgeois parties in the parliamentary elections, French socialist President François Mitterrand appoints the head of the Neo-Gaullists (RPR) and Paris mayor Jacques Chirac as prime minister: the first “cohabitation” begins (until 1988).
1996: Heavy fighting broke out in southern Lebanon between Israeli occupation forces and pro-Iranian Hezbollah Shiite militias.
2011: The EU parliamentarian Ernst Strasser (V) announces his resignation. Alleged lobbyists had offered the ex-interior minister money if he could influence EU legislation in their favor. The “lobbyists” turned out to be reporters for the British newspaper “Sunday Times”.
2016: Historic visit: Barack Obama is the first US president to visit socialist Cuba since the 1959 revolution. He meets with Head of State Raúl Castro, with whom he agreed at the end of 2014 to end the Ice Age between the two states. In Havana, he announced further steps to bring the long-standing enemies closer.
Birthdays: Napoleon (II.) François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, 1811-1832 King of Rome, 1814-1817 Prince of Parma, Duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832); Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician; Nobel Peace Prize 1982 (1911-1991); Pierre Messmer, French politician (1916-2007); Oscar Deléglise, east Director / actor, director of the Max Reinhardt Seminar 1945-1948 (1916-2009); Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, formerly Senegalese. Politician, former UNESCO Director General (1921); Rudolf Noelte, German director (1921-2002); Roland Peugeot, French industrialist (1926-2016); Jimmie Vaughan, US blues musician (1951); Chester Bennington, US singer (“Linkin Park”) (1976-2017); Alexis Pinturault, French ski racer (1991).
Days of Death: Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (1656-1746); Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Scottish writer, politician and adventurer (1852-1936); Henry Handel Richardson (eigtl. Ethel F. Lindesay R.), austral. Writer (1870-1946); Wilhelm Miklas, east Politician, Federal President 1928-38 (1872-1956); Franz Ruhm, east. Cookery teacher (1896-1966); Kurt Hauenstein, east Musician (1949-2011).
Name days: Irmgard, Wolfram, Hubert, Nicetas, Eberhard, Ruprecht, Claudia, Deogratias.
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