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Historical Events
2023 - German Federal Criminal Police Office arrests a defense procurement agency employee on suspicion of spying for Russia. The suspect is alleged to have offered his services to Russian diplomatic representations in Germany.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismisses Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin. The acting duties are taken over by Vladimir Putin, the former secretary of the Security Council and former head of the domestic intelligence service.
1989 - A train disaster in northern Mexico claims 112 lives. A bridge collapsed due to heavy rainfall as a passenger train was crossing it.
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States due to the "Watergate affair," making him the only president to do so in U.S. history. His successor is Vice President Gerald Ford.
1969 - Four members of the "Family" hippie cult, led by Charles Manson, murder film director Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four guests in his house.
Birthdays
1959 - Michael Kors (65), American fashion designer
1949 - Robert Hetkämper (75), German journalist, long-time Asia correspondent for ARD
1939 - Romano Prodi (85), Italian politician and economist, Prime Minister 1996-1998 and 2006-2008, President of the EU Commission 1999-2004
1909 - Hans Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat and resistance fighter, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, died in 1944
Deaths
1944 - Felix Nussbaum, German painter and graphic artist, murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, born in 1904
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