2010 Event The Wittelsback-Graff Diamond, a 31.06-carat Fancy Deep Blue diamond, once part of the Austrian and Bavarian Crown jewels, is placed on display at the Smithsonian 1945 Birthday Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1930 Birthday Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor, Bavarian State Orchestra 1968 1923 Event Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA 1919 Death Eugen Levine, head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated 1914 Event Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France 1816 Event Bavarian joins Saint Alliance 1779 Event War of Bavarian Succession ends 1704 Event French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1689 Birthday Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder, Prague 1658 Event France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond 1634 Event Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1631 Event France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau 1436 Death Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 1417 Event Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 1354 Event Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty 1283 Birthday Ludwig IV of Baveria, Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor, 1314 - 1347