Commemorations
995: Battle of Lechfeld, near Augsburg. The final defeat of the Magyar invaders by German King Otto I.
1566: Beeldenstorm in Flanders. The destruction of religious images spread throughout the Low Countries in revolt against Spanish King Phillip II’s suppression of the Reformation movement.
1793: Palais du Louvre opened to public as an art museum.
1881: First International Electricity Exhibition held in Paris
1920: The Treaty of Sèvres, in which the Allied victors of World War I dissolved the Ottoman Empire.
1975: Hottest day of the century in Europe
1988: Hockey player Wayne Gretzky traded from Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings for 20 million dollars.
1994: Two smugglers apprehended at Munich airport, carrying a suitcase containing 330 grams of plutonium.
1995: Germany’s Constitutional Court delivers the Kruzifix-Urteil, ruling that the display of crucifixes in school classrooms infringes upon freedom of religion
Birthdays
1865: Alexander Glazunov, composer. Russia (d.1936)
1868: Hugo Eckener, airship pioneer. Germany (d.1954)
1877: Rudolf Hilferding: economist and politician. Austria (d.1941)
1878: Alfred Döblin, writer and medic. Germany. (d.1957)
1902: Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius, chemist. Sweden. (d.1971)
1959: Rosanna Arquette, actress. U.S.
1960: Antonio Banderas, actor. Spain.
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