1673: In England, non-Anglicans are barred from military and civilian careers.
1808: Tsar Alexander I proclaims the union of Finland with Russia. (In 1809 Finland becomes an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire.)
1848: A liberal ministry (government) is formed in Hungary under Count Lajos Batthyány. (Batthyány is executed on October 6, 1849).
1848: In Venice, the revolutionary Daniele Manin seizes the arsenal, proclaims the “Republic of San Marco” (until August 24, 1849) and becomes its head of government on March 23.
1928: Fritz Lang’s film “Spione” has its premiere in Berlin’s UFA-Palast am Zoo.
1933: Start of construction of the first permanent concentration camp (KZ) in Dachau by Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler. It existed until it was liberated by American troops on April 29, 1945 and is the only concentration camp to have existed continuously during the twelve years of Nazi rule.
1948: The US Congress approves the agreement on emergency aid for Austria with a total of 57 million dollars. Cereals account for 20 million.
1948: The “National-Zeitung” appears for the first time in the Soviet sector of Berlin, openly working towards winning over former NSDAP members for the goals of the SED.
1953: Federal President Theodor Körner rejects the formation of a three-party government with the SPÖ and including the VdU (Association of Independents), a gathering place for former NSDAP followers and predecessor organization of the FPÖ.
1963: British Army Secretary John Profumo has protested in the House of Commons that he had no “improper” relationship with 21-year-old call girl Christine Keeler. (He has to resign on June 5. Keeler was also involved with a Soviet diplomat).
1968: After his fall as head of the Communist Party (January 5), Antonín Novotný also has to resign as Czechoslovak President. (On March 30, General Ludvik Svoboda is elected his successor.)
1973: The US stopped withdrawing troops from South Vietnam and demanded the release of prisoners of war in Laos as well.
1983: Labor Party candidate Chaim Herzog is elected President of Israel to succeed Yitzhak Navon.
1988: France’s socialist President François Mitterrand announces his re-election. Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, leader of the neo-Gaullists, is up once morest him.
1993: The Constitutional Court confirms the existing system in Vienna of executive and non-executive city councillors.
1998: The European Airbus consortium becomes the largest aircraft supplier with a major order (179 commercial jets for Latin American countries).
2003: Iraq War: US-British invading army continues advance from Kuwait. The city of Basra is surrounded.
2018: With the votes of the ÖVP and FPÖ, the National Council resolves the controversial withdrawal of the smoking ban in restaurants, which ultimately never came into force.
birthdays: Antonio Francesco Grazzini, ital. poet (1503-1584); Jochen Klepper, dt. writer (1903-1942); Cheddi Jagan, formerly. President of Guyana (1918-1997); Marcel Marceau (own. Mangel), French Pantomime (1923-2007); Esmat Abdel Meguid, Egypt. Politician (1923-2013); Florian Kuntner, east. cat. theologian; 1977-1994 Consecrated Bishop of Vienna and Titular Archbishop of (1933-1994); Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Iran. Politician (1933-2021); Věra Linhartová, Czech. writer (1938); Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer (1948); Dagmar Havlová, ex. Czech. First Lady (1953).
days of death: Ilya Selvinsky, Soviet writer (1899-1968); Michael “Mike” Todd, US film producer (1907-1958); Israel “Cachao” López, kuban.-amer. composer and bass player (1918-2008); Ramón “Bebo” Valdés, Cuban. musicians (1918-2013); Gerardo Gandini, arg. Composer (1936-2013).
name days: Elmar, Lea, Herlinde, Reinhilde, Kasimir, Oktavian, Konrad, Katherina, Zacharias, Basilius.
