The current calendar page for October 2nd, 2024

Name day

Hermann, Jacob

Historical data

2022 – More than 130 people, including 17 children, die in a mass panic after a football match on the Indonesian island of Java. Thousands stormed the square and the police used tear gas.

2009 – Ireland approves the EU Lisbon Treaty on the second attempt with a surprisingly large majority of 67.1 percent. In the first referendum last year, 53.4 percent voted against the contract.

1999 – The German Television Prize is awarded in Cologne for the first time. The donors of the unfunded award are the largest German television broadcasters, ARD, ZDF, RTL and Sat.1.

1944 – The “Warsaw Uprising” of the national Polish Home Army against the German occupation, which began on August 1st, ends with Poland’s surrender.

1889 – At the initiative of the USA, which wanted to expand its influence in Latin America, the first “Pan American Conference” began in Washington.

Birthdays

1984 – Marion Bartoli (40), French tennis player, Wimbledon winner 2013

1974 – René Sommerfeldt (50), German cross-country skier, overall World Cup winner in 2004

1959 – Ralf Stegner (65), German politician (SPD), minister in Schleswig-Holstein 2003-2008

1949 – Annie Leibovitz (75), American photographer, world-famous for her portraits of stars, worked for “Rolling Stone”, “Vanity Fair” and “Vogue”, among others

Days of death

1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German writer (“Agents love dangerously”, “The Doctor of Stalingrad”), born 1921