On This Day In History | |
1938: Anschluss approved in Austria In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler's invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: "Union")—the political unification of Austria and Germany. | |
SA troops guarding a Jewish-owned business in Vienna shortly after the Anschluss | |
Biography Of The Day | |
Max von Sydow Swedish actor Max von Sydow, perhaps best known for his dour, brooding characterizations in films directed by Ingmar Bergman and whose film career spanned more than half a century, was born this day in 1929. | |
Max von Sydow and Pelle Hvenegaard in Pelle the Conqueror, which won the Oscar | |
More Events On This Day In History | |
2003 | 2003 Haiti officially recognized Vodou as a religion |
2001 | 2001 The Netherlands passed a bill permitting euthanasia, the first such national law in the world. |
1988 After taking a decade to build, the Seto Great Bridge, spanning the Inland Sea in Japan, was opened to traffic. | |
1973 Pakistan adopted its third constitution, shifting the role of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from president to prime minister. | |
1972 | 1972 The development, production, and stockpiling of biological weapons were outlawed by the Biological Weapons Convention, signed by more than 150 countries. |
1925 The first government led by French premier Édouard Herriot, a Radical Party leader who had been put into office by the left-wing coalition Cartel des Gauches, fell. | |
1583 Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist and scholar whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace), was one of the first great contributions to modern international law, was born. |
Thursday, April 10, 2008
April 10
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