Calendar page 2023: November 10
The current calendar page for November 10, 2023:
45th calendar week, 314th day of the year51 days to go until the end of the yearAstrological sign: ScorpioName day: John, Justus, Leo
HISTORICAL DATES
2022 - The art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sets a record for Christie's auction house. The 150 or so works are auctioned off in New York for a total of around 1.6 billion dollars.
2021 - German astronaut Matthias Maurer launches with a three-person NASA crew from Cape Canaveral Space Station in the US state of Florida to the International Space Station ISS. Maurer is the fourth German in the space station and will remain in space for six months.
2013 - A bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics is rejected in referendums in Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Traunstein and Berchtesgaden.
1988 - At a Bundestag ceremony to commemorate the victims of the anti-Jewish pogroms 50 years earlier, Bundestag President Philipp Jenninger (CDU) gives a speech that is worded in a misleading way. He did not make a clear enough distinction between quotes from the Nazi era and his own words, causing a scandal. He resigns on November 11.
1983 - The first computer virus is presented by student Fred Cohen at the University of Southern California. Like a biological virus, the small program can change its environment and continue to multiply.
1958 - Bertolt Brecht's play "The Unstoppable Rise of Arturo Ui", written in exile in Finland, premieres in Stuttgart.
1943 - The Catholic clergymen Johannes Prassek, Eduard Müller and Hermann Lange and the Protestant pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink are executed in Hamburg. The four so-called Lübeck martyrs had been sentenced to death for their resistance to the Nazi regime.
1903 - King Wilhelm II of Württemberg opens the Schiller Museum in Marbach.
1848 - Prussian troops under Friedrich von Wrangel march into Berlin and put an end to the revolution there without any significant resistance.
BIRTHDAYS
1978 - Nadine Angerer (45), German footballer, World Player of the Year 2013, World Champion 2003 and 2007
1963 - Mike Powell (60), American track and field athlete, has held the world record in the long jump with 8.95 meters since 1991
1958 - Stephen Herek (65), American director ("101 Dalmatians", "Mr. Holland's Opus")
1888 - Andrei N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, died 1972
1483 - Martin Luther, German theologian and reformer, died 1546
DAYS OF DEATH
1978 - Theo Lingen, German-Austrian actor ("Pension Schöller", "Der Theodor im Fußballtor", "Keine Angst vor Liebe"), born 1903
1938 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish politician, ("Father of the Turks") founder of modern Turkey, born 1881
The rich art collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen significantly contributed to art history with its record-breaking auction in 2022.In 1983, the concept of a computer virus was introduced to the world, marking a significant event in the history of technology.
Source: www.dpa.com
