TODAY: July 8

NIELS’ SUMMER GREETINGS
ON: JULY 8

New edition
TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 19 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 17 hours and 16 minutes – from 04.42 to 21.58.

See more – also in English – about where you are:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

Today’s name is KILLIAN’s DAY. It has its name from two different saints. The first one was a Scottish monk, called Killian. He became a bishop in Würzburg in Germany in 670 AC. Later he was killed in 689.

The other saint is Danish and carried the name Kjeld. He became a priest in the town of Viborg in Jutland in 1147. And the legend tells that he once turned out a fire in the town by praying from the roof of the church. He became a saint in 1188.

In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINTES LANDRADE ET AMELBERGE.  They were two nuns, who lived in the 7th century.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1497:  The Portuguese discoverer Vasco da Gama starts his journey from Lisbon to find the route south of Africa.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Köpenick event - what was that? And what did it symbolize?

This expression comes from an event in 1906.  A shoemaker in Berlin, Wilhelm Voigt (1849-1922) – former prisoner and a poor guy to look at – took in the German town of Köpenick outside Berlin the uniform of a military officer and behaved like a captain in the imperial guard. He commanded a group of soldiers to follow him to the City Hall, where they arrested the authorities and took the city’s money box with 4000 Mark. After that he disappeared. But he was caught quite quickly afterwards.

After two years he was pardoned by emperor Wilhelm II and was freed from prison. He became a popular hero in Germany. Now he wrote a book about the event. It was later also made into a film. The event was used by Voigt and many others to make the Prussian authorities look like fools with their obedience to military uniforms.

When the expression a Köpenick event or affair is used now and then today it means that somebody makes fun of the authorities.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Volvo - where does that word come from? And what does it mean?


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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

        It is the fate of guides that  they cannot keep up with progress.

             This was said by the French-Belarussian painter Marc Chagall.

2.  Today’s quote:

        Wealth spoils children, if they get too much of it.

             Who among today's persons said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1621:  Leonora Christina  ( died 1698 )

1838:  Ferdinand von Zeppelin  ( died 1917 )

1839:  John D. Rockefeller  ( died 1937 )

1882:  Percy Grainger  ( died 1961 )

1933:  Marty Feldman  ( died 1982 )

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1822:  Percy Byssche Shelley  ( 30 years )

1967:  Vivien Leigh  ( 54 years )

1994:  Kim Il-sung  ( 82 years )


Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  
www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE-AT-WORK    www.europe-at-work.be

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