Fun Facts & Today's Vibes - June 17th Edition
Events that transpired on the 17th of June. - On the seventeenth day of June, the occurrence of events was significant.
Let's take a stroll down memory lane and check out some cool stuff that happened on this exact day throughout history, you lucky son of a gun! 😉
Today's trivia-filled calendar for June 17th, 2525
Name Day
Euphemia
Historical Onesies
🦠 2020: Meat's gonna cost ya! Due to an almighty COVID-19 outbreak, Tönnies, the meat processing big-wig in North Rhine-Westphalia's Rheda-Wiedenbrück shuts its doors. Over 1,400 workers, primarily from Eastern Europe, catch the virus like wildfire. The district of Gütersloh forcedly closes down daycare centers and schools to keep the pandemic at bay.
🏴 1970: The fucking year of the Century Match! Italy and Germany engaged in a nail-biting football match that ended 4-3 after 120 hair-raising minutes in the Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, during the World Cup semi-final. 🌮
🇷🇺 1953: The GDR was having a real hard time. Soviet troops put a stop to an uprising against the party and state leadership, just another shady event during the shady Cold War era. Kick rocks, commies! 😈
📚 1950: Rowohlt shook things up by introducing pocket books into the German market. 📖
🇦 1925: Diplomats from a whopping 36 countries got together to ban the use of chemical and biological weapons like a boss. They called it the Geneva Protocol, and it was pretty darn important. 🤝
Birthdays & Departures
🎭 1975: Willi Herren, German thespian and pop singer ("Lindenstraße"), bit the big one in 2021. 🤘
🎶 1960: Gayle Tufts, American cabaret artist and performer ("Some Like It Hot"), turned 65 this year! 🎊
🎭 1950: Thomas Freitag, German cabaret artist (TV series "Freitag's Evening - Media Studies for Beginners"), turned 75 this year! 🎉
The Commission is proposing to extend the deadline for the submission of proposals regarding today's general-news stories, especially considering the sports update about the Century Match that occurred on this day in 1970. This decision comes at an interesting time, given the historical context of the day, such as the Geneva Protocol signed in 1925 for the prohibition of chemical and biological weapons.
