Calendar page 2023: November 13
The current calendar page for November 13, 2023:
46th calendar week, 317th day of the year
48 days until the end of the year
Astrological sign: Scorpio
Name day: Agostina, Gertrud, Himer, Siard, Stanislaus
HISTORICAL DATES
2022 - Six people die in a bomb attack in Istanbul. Turkey blames the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG and an offshoot of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Both groups reject this.
2022 - US singer Taylor Swift wins four MTV Europe Music Awards in Düsseldorf, including Best Female Artist and Best Video. She receives six trophies a week later at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.
2013 - The Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders and the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, form a right-wing alliance at a meeting in The Hague with the aim of dissolving the European Union.
2013 - Twelve years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the first tower of the new World Trade Center is opened in New York.
1973 - The Sportpalast on Potsdamer Straße in Berlin-Schöneberg is demolished. From 1910 to 1973, it was one of the most popular venues for ice revues, concerts, sporting events and political rallies.
1958 - Melville Shavelson's comedy film "Houseboat", starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, premieres at the Capitol Theater in New York.
1925 - The first collective exhibition of Surrealist art opens at the Galerie Pierre in Paris.
1906 - In Munich, the foundation stone for the Deutsches Museum is laid on the so-called Kohleninsel (now Museum Island) in the Isar river.
1805 - Napoleon's troops enter Vienna.
BIRTHDAYS
1968 - Achim von Borries (55), German film director and screenwriter (TV series "Babylon Berlin", "Four Days in May")
1958 - Michael Fitz (65), German actor and musician, role of commissioner Carlo Menzinger in the Munich "Tatort" 1990-2007, film role in "Marias letzte Reise"
1933 - Peter Härtling, German writer ("Ben liebt Anna", "Das war der Hirbel", "Schubert"), German Book Prize of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association 2003, died 2017
1848 - Prince Albert I, Prince of Monaco, reigned 1889-1922, deep-sea explorer, founder of the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco and the Oceanographic Institute in Paris, died 1922
1493 - Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria, introduced the purity law for beer, which is still considered a sign of quality today, died 1550
DAY OF DEATH
1973 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer, known for the fashion color "Shocking Pink", born 1890
1903 - Camille Pissarro, French painter and graphic artist ("The Red Roofs"), important representative of Impressionism, b. 1830
The historical event on November 13 in 1973 significantly impacted the cultural landscape of Berlin, with the demolition of the popular Sportpalast venue. This wasn't the first or last significant historical event in the field of arts and culture.
In the realm of cinema, notable milestones include the premiere of Melville Shavelson's "Houseboat" starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in 1958, which contributed to the cinematic history.
Source: www.dpa.com
