e from 1941-1944 and at Columbia from 1944 until his death on April 13, 1945. In his academic career he continued to develop the thought of Immanuel Kant to suit developments in the modern world. Major works by Cassirer include Die Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (1923-1929), Sprache und Mythos (1925), Die Philosophie der Aufklärung (1932) and The Myth of the State (1946).
July 28, 1882
First performance of Richard Wagner‘s opera, Parsifal, in Bayreuth.
July 28, 1902
Karl Raimund Popper was born on July 28, 1902 in Vienna, Austria. He completed his doctorate at the University of Vienna. Although his first book Logik der Forschung (1934) was published by the Vienna Circle (logical positivism) he did not remain with the limitations of the views of the Vienna Circle. He taught at Canterbury University College in New Zealand from 1937-1945. In 1945 he accepted a position at the London School of Economics as a professor logic and scientific method. He proposed the “falsifiability criterion” to replace the traditional idea of verification through replicability. Popper’s books include The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), and Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery (1981-82). Sir Karl Popper was knighted in 1965. He died on September 17, 1994 in London.
July 28, 1914
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, thus starting WWI.
July 28, 1942
The Nazis kill 10,000 Jews in Minsk, Russia.
July 28, 1948
An I. G. Farben chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, explodes and kills 182.
July 28, 1968
Death of Otto Hahn in Göttingen, Germany. Hahn and his colleagues discovered and named the process of nuclear fission in 1938. Hahn continued his research in Germany during the war. Only after the end of the war did he learn that he had been given the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. After the war he became an active opponent of the further development of nuclear weapons.
July 28, 1997
Death of Hedi Oplesch in St. Paul, MN (born in Munich, Germany.) Oplesch taught German in the school system of Robbinsdale, Minnesota . She created a long lasting television series teaching German to children. After retirement she directed the Minnesota/Baden-Württemberg exchange program for high school students.
July 28, 2005
In a surprise move, Jürgen Schrempp, who had been head of DaimlerChrysler for 10 years, resigns his position. His successor was designated as Dieter Zetsche, who had been the very successful head of DaimlerChrysler’s Chrysler division in the USA.