It happened – December 27th
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27 December 2022 at 02.00
1831: The sailing schooner HMS «Beagle» left the quay in Plymouth with 22-year-old Charles Darwin on board. Darwin had been brought along as company for Captain Robert FitzRoy, who feared the loneliness during the long journey and wanted to have with him an educated and nature-interested conversational partner. According to Wikipedia, the association between the deeply religious Captain FitzRoy and his more free-thinking guest was by no means friction-free. The two men could end up in tussles “verging on the insane”, Darwin recalled later. The circumnavigation was supposed to take two years, but ended up lasting almost five. Darwin’s studies during the journey were to form much of the basis for his theory of the origin of species. After returning home in October 1836, he wrote the book “The Voyage of the Beagle”, which was published in 1839.
1901: The actress and singer Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin. She was given the baptismal name Maria Magdalena, which she later shortened to Marlene. Dietrich made her silent film debut in 1923 and broke through with a bang in 1930 as the nightclub singer Lola Lola in the sound film “Der blaue Engel” (“The Blue Angel”). The next year made their career as a film actor in Hollywood. From the early 1950s, she devoted herself mostly to singing. On 11 May 1960, Marlene Dietrich’s deep, hypnotic voice echoed in the Regnbuen dance restaurant in Oslo. The concert took place under a total photography ban due to the world star’s flimsy dress, which showed more than well when exposed to flash lights. Those of the press photographers who defied the ban had their films seized by Dietrich’s bodyguards.
1991: It is called the «miracle of Gottröra» in Uppland in eastern Sweden. An SAS flight en route from Stockholm to Copenhagen had engine problems just 25 seconds after takeoff from Arlanda. After 78 seconds both engines were dead. The pilots knew that an emergency landing with full fuel tanks would be extremely costly, and in addition, the low altitude left little time to plan such a landing. After two minutes of silent gliding flight, they still manage to bring the plane down on a field in Gottröra parish. The fuselage was broken into three parts in the encounter with the field, but for all that hell the fuel tanks did not explode. All 129 people on board survived the emergency landing. The plane’s captain chose to leave the pilot profession shortly after the incident.
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