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1924 In Croatia
Events from the year 1924 in Croatia. Incumbents * Monarch – Alexander I Events *January 27 – Treaty of Rome Arts and literature Sport *January–February – 1924 Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, in which the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was represented by a delegation of four sportsmen, including Croats Dušan Zinaja and Mirko Pandaković who competed in cross-country skiing *April 27 – Football club NK Maksimir founded *N/A – Football club NK Vrbovec founded *N/A – Stadion Koturaška football venue opened in Zagreb Births *January 9 – Mirko Grmek, medical historian (died 2000) *March 30 – Milko Kelemen, composer *June 18 – Nela Eržišnik, actress and comedian (died 2007) *July 4 – Frano Vodopivec, cinematographer (died 1998) *July 22 – Fedor Škubonja, film director (died 2008) *September 5 – Rajka Vali, pop singer (died 2011) *October 29 – Mirko Vidaković, botanist (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
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2007 In Croatia
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as Symbolism of the Number 7, highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 In Croatia
Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the south German states, aside from Austria, unite into a single nation state, known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Constitution of the German Confederation comes into effect. It abolishes all restrictions on Jewish marriage, choice of occupation, place of residence, and property ownership, but exclusion from government employment and discrimination in social relations remain in effect. * January 21 – Giuseppe Garibaldi's group of French and Italian volunteer troops, in support of the French Third Republic, win a battle against the Prussians in the Battle of Dijon. * February 8 – 1871 French legislative election el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Kovačić
Viktor Kovačić (1874–1924) was a Croatian architect and is often called "the father of modern Croatian architecture". Life He was born in 1874 in Ločendol near Rogaška Slatina, present-day Slovenia. After graduating from the Crafts School in Graz in 1891, at age of seventeen, he came to Zagreb where he was as a trainee in local construction firms. He studied architecture the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and opened a studio in Zagreb in 1899. He was co-founder of the Club of Croatian Architects in 1906. He worked at the Engineering College (Technical High School) in Zagreb from 1920, attaining a professorship in 1922. Viktor Kovačić died in Zagreb on October 21, 1924. Work The modern Croatian architecture appeared with Viktor Kovačić who was the first to speak against historicism and represented the idea that architecture must be individual and modern, but also practical and comfortable. From the thirties the works of “Zagreb school of architecture" c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Croatia
Events from the year 2010 in Croatia. Incumbents *President – Stjepan Mesić (until 18 February), Ivo Josipović (starting 19 February) *Prime Minister – Jadranka Kosor *Speaker – Luka Bebić Events Ongoing – Accession of Croatia to the European Union *10 January – Second round of the presidential election is held. Ivo Josipović beats Milan Bandić winning 60.3% of the vote. *18 February – Ivo Josipović officially inaugurated as President at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb. *10 December – Former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is arrested in Austria over charges of corruption Arts and literature *6 March – Girl group Feminnem win the 2010 Eurovision national pre-selection competition. *27 May – Feminnem perform in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 semi-final in Oslo but fail to progress to the finals. *10–24 July – The 2010 Pula Film Festival is held. The film '' Just Between Us'' directed by Rajko Grlić wins the Big Golden Arena for Best Film award. Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Yugoslavia
The prime minister of Yugoslavia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Премијер Југославије, Premijer Jugoslavije) was the head of government of the Yugoslavia, Yugoslav state, from the Creation of Yugoslavia, creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 until the Breakup of Yugoslavia, breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. History Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Kosovo and Metohija, Baranya (region), Baranya, Syrmia, Banat, Bačka and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary) on 1 December 1918. Until 6 January 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milka Planinc
Milka Planinc ( Malada; ; 21 November 1924 – 7 October 2010) was a Croatian politician active in SFR Yugoslavia. She served as Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986, the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized Communist state in Europe. Early life Planinc was born Milka Malada in a mixed ethnic Croat and ethnic Serb family in Žitnić, a small village near Drniš, Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia. She attended school until the onset of World War II interrupted her education. She joined the Communist Youth League in 1941, which was a pivotal year in Planinc's life and for her country. Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia and divided the country among German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian occupying authorities. Soon a resistance movement known as the Partisans was formed, led by Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Planinc waited impatiently for the day when she would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Vidaković
Mirko pl. Vidaković (October 29, 1924 – August 15, 2002) was a Croatian botany, botanist and dendrology, dendrologist and the expert for the genetics of the forest trees. Biography Vidaković was born in Lemeš, Bačka, Lemeš, Bačka. He attained a professional qualification of engineer of forestry before 1949, when he was first employed as a lecturer at the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Zagreb ( hr, Šumarski fakultet). He was a full member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) since 1981. He was the head of the Trsteno Arboretum, arboretum in Trsteno since 1970. He worked as UNDP's and FAO's expert in Pakistan, Vietnam and Hungary. Together with forestry of Našice, in 1996 he founded first cloning, clone seminal plantation of pedunculate oak in Croatia. He died in Zagreb at the age of 77. Works His works were published in various editions from international scientific gatherings, symposiums and consultations, mostly in area of ecological valorizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Croatia
Events in the year 2011 in Croatia. Incumbents *President – Ivo Josipović *Prime Minister – Jadranka Kosor (until 23 December), Zoran Milanović (starting 23 December) *Speaker – Luka Bebić (until 22 December), Boris Šprem (from 22 December) Events Ongoing – Accession of Croatia to the European Union * June 11 – The first Split Pride is held. * July 19 – Former prime minister Ivo Sanader is extradited from Austria * December 4 – Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 Arts and entertainment In music: Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Sports Football (soccer) competitions: Prva HNL, Druga HNL, Croatian Cup. For more in football (soccer) see: 2010–11 in Croatian football. In motorsports, Croatia will host the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Croatia. Deaths *January 3 – Fadil Hadžić, playwright and film director (born 1922) *April 18 – Ivica Vidović, actor (born 1939) *June 24 – Tomislav Ivić, football manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajka Vali
Valerija Raukar (September 5, 1924, Ruma, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – March 6, 2011, Zagreb, Croatia), most commonly known by her stage name Rajka Vali, was a Croatian pop music singer who enjoyed success through the 1940s and 1950s. Raukar was born to an ethnic Croat family in the east Syrmian town of Ruma (today located in Vojvodina, Serbia). She began singing in the school choir in high school in Zagreb. Her professional singer career began accidentally in 1943. One of members of Trio Delinski was ill and there was an urgent need for replacement. Valerija Raukar was literally dragged by her friends into the studio of Krugovalna postaja Zagreb. She sang with Trio Delinski until the end of World War II. Afterwards she continued as a vocal soloist, sometimes making records with dance orchestras. She studied architecture in Zagreb and graduated in 1955. She was married twice. Her first marriage was with known pre-World War II Croatian jazz musician Bojan Hohnjec, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Croatia
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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