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January of LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND
2005.01.28 12:17
26 December
Feast of St. Stephen Proto-Martyr
2004 the Great Tsunami of the Indian Ocean
28 December
Feast of the Holy Innocents
1868 birth of Horace Trumbauer
1931 birth of Guy Debord
2004 death of Susan Sontag
2004 opening of LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND, the 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention
29-30 December
1916 assassination of Rasputin
31 December
439 death of St. Melania the Younger
1 January
1921 birth of Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi
1944 death of Edwin Lutyens
1945 departure of Donau-Schwabens from Apatin, Yugoslavia
2004 Franziska Baroness von Ow begins her bike trip at Apatin
2 January
1872 birth of Albert C. Barnes
4 January
1965 death of T.S. Eliot
9 January
first Agonalia
feast of Sts. Julian and Basilissa
10 January
1953 birth of OGL
12 January
1976 death of Agatha Christie
14 January
1990 death of James A. Williams
17 January
395 death of Theodosius
1706 birth of Benjamin Franklin
18 January
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19 January
1945 train from Apatin arrives at Bokovo
2004 Franziska Baroness von Ow concludes her bike ride at Bokovo
20 January
2004 Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheims and Sigmund Freud visit the Vatican Museum
21 January
1793 beheading of Louis XVI
23 January
1872 birth of Rasputin
25 January
2005 death of Philip Johnson
27 January
1945 Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration/death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
It is a sad irony that on 1 January 1945, 1000s of Donau-Schwabens were herded into boxcars at Apatin, Yugoslavia and shipped to Soviet labor/mining camps in southern Ukraine. The trainloads arrived in/near Bokovo 19 January 1945. Those that survived the concentration were finally freed and sent to West Germany late 1949.
The Donau-Schwabens are ethnic Germans that settled along the Danube River throughout northern Serbia and Romania in the late 1700s after the Austro-Hungarians pushed the Turks out of that region.
Only those between the age of 18 and 45 were shipped to Bokovo. The remaining Donau-Schwabens were placed in concentration/death camps throughout Serbia and Romania. Gakovo was the location of one of the camps.
28 January
1912 birth of Jackson Pollock
2005 part of a Vietnamese funerary ritual is performed across the street from the House in Ottopia.
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