Claus von Bülow
Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-British socialite.
He was known for being accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979 which had left her in a coma from which she never recovered. However, that conviction in the first trial was reversed and he was found not guilty at his second trial.
In the same trial he was also convicted for the attempted murder of his wife by insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life, but that conviction in the first trial was also reversed and he was found not guilty at his second trial.
He was a friend and personal assistant to J. Paul Getty.
The characters Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire from "A Series of Unfortunate Events" are named after Claus and Sunny von Bülow.
Bülow died in London on 25 May 2019 at the age of 92.
Hartwig Löger
Hartwig Löger (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian politician and former business executive. He was the Acting Chancellor of Austria from 28 May 2019 to 3 June 2019. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria (part of the Uniqa Insurance Group) and since 2017 he has been Minister of Finance.
On 22 May 2019, he was named Vice Chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as Acting Chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against the federal government, following the Ibiza affair.
Brigitte Bierlein
Brigitte Bierlein (born June 25, 1949) is an Austrian jurist. Bierlein is the Chancellor of Austria from 3 June 2019 to 7 January 2020. She was the advocate general of the Procurator's Office from 1990 to 2002, and a member of the executive board of the International Association of Prosecutors from 2001 to 2003.
In 2003, Bierlein was made a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Since January 2018, she has been its president, the first woman to hold this position.
She was made temporary Chancellor until the next national elections in September 2019 and is the first woman in this role in Austria.
Bierlein was born on June 25, 1949 in Vienna.
James Marape
James Marape (born 24 April 1971) is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007, representing the electorate of Tari-Pori Open.
On 30 May 2019, he was nominated, elected, and sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea by the National Parliament.
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, is Papua New Guinea's head of government. A person becomes Prime Minister by being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the National Parliament.
Stellarton
Stellarton is a town located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Michael Somare
Sir Michael Thomas Somare (9 April 1936 – 26 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician. His career lasted from 1968 until his retirement in 2017. He was the longest serving Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (17 years). He was the country's first Prime Minister.
Somare died on 26 February 2021 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from pancreatic cancer, aged 84.
Paulias Matane
Sir Paulias Nguna Matane , (born 21 September 1931) was the eighth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea from 29 June 2004 to 13 December 2010.
Pictou
Pictou ( ; Scottish Gaelic: "Baile Phiogto") is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
The Governor-General of Papua New Guinea is the representative of Papua New Guinean monarch, known in Tok Pisin as 'Missis Kwin'.
Bob Dadae
Sir Robert Dadae (born 8 March 1961) is the Governor-General of Papua New Guinea since 2017. He replaced Sir Michael Ogio who died in office.
Freddy Buache
Freddy Buache (29 December 1924 – 28 May 2019) was a Swiss journalist, movie critic and historian. He was the director of the Swiss Film Archive from 1951 to 1996. He was a privatdozent at the University of Lausanne. Buache was born in Lausanne.
Buache died on 28 May 2019 at the age of 94.
Tornado outbreak of May 2019
The tornado outbreak of May 2019 is an ongoing record-breaking tornado outbreak in the United States and Canada, which has so far produced at least 237 tornadoes, including 47 significant events (EF2+). 18 of these were EF3 tornadoes over multiple states. States affected were Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
On May 28, the U.S. had its 12th straight day with at least eight tornadoes, which broke the previous record of 11 days straight set in 1980. During this period, the U.S. had an average of 27.5 tornadoes per day.
Kawasaki stabbings
The Kawasaki stabbings happened on the morning of 28 May 2019 in the Tama ward of Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, four blocks west of Noborito Station.
Two people were murdered, and 17 others were injured after being stabbed at a city bus stop by 51-year-old Ryuichi Iwasaki. After carrying out the attack, he committed suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.
The fatal victims were Hanako Kuribayashi, an 11-year-old student, and Satoshi Oyama, a 39-year-old Foreign Ministry employee.
N-Dubz discography
N-Dubz have made three studio albums, one compilation album, one extended plays (EPs) and 20 singles.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016) was a Puerto Rican author. She is best known for her works of creative non-fiction and her works are to exposes the rifts and gaps that arise between her split cultural heritages. Her work also explores such subjects as racism and sexism in American culture. She was alsothen author of a children´s book. The topics she wrote about over her career: "A Love Story Beginning in Spanish", "Reaching for the Mainland and Selected New Poems", "Terms of Survival", and "The Poet Upstairs", "Animal Jamboree/La Fiesta De Los Animales: Latino Folktales / Leyendas", and "A Bailar!/Let’s Dance". Most of her topics are about children, animals, and love. Judith Ortiz Cofer was voted into the Georgia Writers Hall of"F"fame.
Judith Ortíz Cofer was born to Jesus Lugo Ortíz and Fanny Morot in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on February 24, 1952. She moved to Paterson, New Jersey with her family in 1956. Morot( her mother) gave birth to Judith Ortíz Cofer when she was fifteen years old..T hey believed they would have more opportunities for young parents in America. Despite Lugo’s (her father) passion for working in a university, he left school and joined the U.S. Navy. Later, he was assigned to Panama when his daughter was born. He met Judith Ortiz Cofer for the first time two years later. Her family’s move from Puerto Rico to New Jersey influenced her writing.
Ortiz Cofer's work can be called creative nonfiction. Her narrative style was influenced by oral storytelling, which her grandmother inspired. In Puerto Rico, their tradition is storytelling. She began her writing career with a work of poetry, "The Latin Deli." She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her other works explore various genres, combining poetry, short fiction, and personal narrative. Ortiz Cofer's works often focus on living her life between two cultures, American and Puerto Rican, and how this informs her ideas as a writer. Her work also explores such subjects as racism and sexism in American culture.
SNC-Lavalin
SNC-Lavalin is a Canadian engineering company based in Montreal. It was founded in 1911 by Arthur Surveyer.
It faces charges of corruption, in connection with bribery in Libya.
Fritz Schösser