![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Wikipedia meme...
Events:
527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.
1948 - Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
Births:
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author (fangirl squee!)
Deaths:
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II of England
1839 - Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757)
Events:
527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust.
1948 - Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
Births:
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author (fangirl squee!)
Deaths:
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II of England
1839 - Benjamin Pierce, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757)
Tags: