Stepan Radich announced that they were going to kill him, they told him he was not normal

On June 20, 1990, the red, white and blue Croatian flag with the historic Croatian coat of arms flew in front of the Croatian Parliament. On the same day, the Socialist Republic of Croatia was renamed the Republic of Croatia. Croatian Television broadcast the event live, which was then a real Croatian television station, so that the whole country could watch this long-awaited event. To the right of President Tuman stood his closest aide at the time, Stjepan Mesia.

Interestingly, the coat of arms on the flag of the Republic of Croatia at that time started with a white background, just as the coat of arms on the roof of St. Mark’s Church, which has a history of more than 150 years, started with a white background. A white field. In December 1990, the Law on the Coat of Arms, Flag and Anthem stipulated that red was the starting color of the official flag of the Republic of Croatia.

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Congressional session ends tragically

On June 20, 1928, a deputy of the Croatian Peasant Party was assassinated in the Belgrade National Assembly. The assassination of the deputy was carried out by the Punisher Rajka. In the evening and night, Stjepan Radiç was on his way to the National Assembly; he wrote a text for the newspaper in which he informed about the information he had received from a radical that Prime Minister Veljo Vukievi wanted to kill him. Puniša and other deputies responded by requesting that Radiç be sent for a medical examination, because his behavior “raised strong and reasonable doubts that he was a normal person”.

Lasajisa pulled out a revolver at the meeting and wounded Stjepan and Pavle Radić, Dr. Ivan Pernar and Ivan Granđ. Uro Basariček was killed on the spot by a barrage of bullets from Stjepan Radić, and Pavle Radić was hit. He died in hospital. Stjepan Radić died in August. A year later, the Punisher Lakaron was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Đura Basariček and Pavle Radić, 15 years for the murder of Stjepan Radić, 5 years for wounding Ivan Granđ and 4 months for wounding Ivan Feather Pillow. Eventually, the Belgrade court reduced his sentence to 20 years.

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Actress Nicole Kidman is born

On this day, actress Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father was finishing his studies. Later they moved to Washington, and soon to Sydney, Australia. In 1989, she became famous for filming the movie Days of Thunder with her future husband Tom Cruise, from whom she separated in 2001. Then the golden age of her career began: in 2001, Moulin Rouge was released and Nicole won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. She won an Oscar for the movie The Hours, starring with Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.

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