630 Shahrbaraz becomes Persian Emperor (killed, June 9. 630)
1084 Robert the Weasel liberates Rome - and Pope Gregory VII - from Emperor Henry IV, amid the great slaughter
1507 Genovese uprising against French occupation
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates "The Most Serene Republic" of Venice
1528 Battle of Cape d'Orso: Franco-Genovese fleet crushes the Spanish
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act, leading to the Boston Tea Party
1778 John Paul Jones begins a two-day raid on Whitehaven, U.K.
1799 Battle of Cassano: Russo-Austrians defeat the French
1813 American troops under Brig. Gen. Zebulon Pike capture Toronto
1849 Battle of Marghera: Austrians defeat Italian Nationalists in the Veneto
1857 Jews are prohibited from establishing congregations in Lower Austria
1861 The 7th NY Militia enters federal service at Washington.
1861 Col. Thomas J Jackson, CSA, assumes command at Harper's Ferry
1863 Streight's Raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
1865 Steamer 'Sultana' explodes in the Mississippi, c. 1,500 die, mostly Union soldiers recently released from Confederate P/W camps
1874 Racist "White League" formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1890 Battle of Barca: Italians defeat the Sudanese Mahdists
1897 Dedication of Grant's Tomb
1898 Matanzas, Cuba: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire
1909 Ouster of Ottoman Sultan & Caliph Abdul Hamid II of Turkey (1876-1909), in favor of Mehmed V (1909-1918)
1915 French Armoured Cruiser 'Leon Gambetta' sunk in the Adriatic by the Austro-Hungarian submarine 'U-5', commanded by Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp
1930 The Italian Navy launches five new warships: heavy cruisers 'Fiume' & 'Zara,' light cruisers 'Albert di Giussano' & 'Giovanni delle Bande Nere,' and submarine, 'Delfino.'
1940 Himmler orders establishment of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens
1942 Nazis order Belgian Jews to wear yellow stars
1942 Stilwell proposes the formation of a Chinese army in India.
1943 Soviet Union breaks relations with Polish government-in-exile in London
1945 Allied warships begin 4-day bombardment of Tarakan Island, Borneo
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini and Clara Petacci, near Lake Como
1945 US Fifth Army liberates Genoa
1948 The Arab Legion attacks the Gesher Bridge on the Jordan River
2021
The man named to be the first commander of the U-5 was Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp, the dashing 30-year-old scion of an old naval family. Among the guests at the commissioning was the woman who had christened the U-6 the previous June, 20-year-old Fräulein Agathe Whitehead, the rather wealthy granddaughter of Robert Whitehead (who invented the “automobile torpedo” and founded the Whitehead shipyards). Agathe and Georg married shortly afterwards.
During World War I, Baron von Trapp proved one of Austria-Hungary’s greatest naval heroes, completing 19 war patrols in various submarines, accounting for 11 merchant vessels sunk for a total of 45,669 tons, as well as a French armored cruiser and an Italian destroyer, not to mention at least one ship captured. Meanwhile, the Baron and Agathe began a family, which numbered seven children by 1922, when Agathe died.
The Baron remarried in 1927, to Maria Augusta Kutschera, with whom he had three more children. A decade later, the entire family fled Austria and the Nazi threat, settling in America and attaining fame as the “Trapp Family Singers.”