2023-05-26 22:39:34
Under Saturday, May 27, the book of history records, among other things:
1703: Tsar Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg.
1718: Claudius Innozenz Du Paquier founds the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory Augarten with an imperial privilege, the second oldest production facility in Europe following Meissen.
1903: AEG and Siemens found the “Company for Wireless Telegraphy” in Berlin.
1923: The first 24-hour race held there comes to an end in Le Mans.
1928: Franz Werfel’s “Abiturtentag” is published by Zsolnay-Verlag.
1933: In order to put pressure on Vienna, to bring regarding domestic political destabilization and to damage the Austrian economy, Germany imposes the “thousand mark ban” on Austria. (Before traveling to Austria, every German citizen must pay a fee of 1,000 Reichsmark.) – Noticeable effects on tourism.
1958: The computer pioneer Heinz Zemanek calculated the prime number 5 073 548 261 in 66 minutes with the help of the first computer equipped entirely with transistors called “Mailüfterl”.
1968: The thalidomide process around the embryo-damaging drug begins. Contergan, a sleeping pill and tranquilizer available without a prescription, caused deformities in children whose mothers took it during pregnancy. On December 18, 1970, the proceedings were discontinued.
1978: The suspected terrorist Till Meyer is freed from the prison in Berlin-Moabit by two women at gunpoint.
1993: A car bomb attack in central Florence kills five and damages the “Uffizi Gallery” in the old town, one of the world’s most famous museums.
2003: The Austrian Trade Union Federation is demanding the government’s draft pension reform be withdrawn and is calling for an all-day “defensive strike” on June 3rd.
birthdays: Harold Jacob Rome, US composer (1908-1993); Peter Cushing, British actor (1913-1994); Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician (1918-2019); Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State (1923); Thea Musgrave, British composer (1928); Wolfgang Houska, Austria banker (1938-2005); Maria Walliser, formerly Swiss. Skier (1963).
days of death: Aquilino Ribeiro, Portuguese writer (1885-1963); Ernst Ruska, German electrical engineer; Nobel Prize 1986 (1906-1988); Herbert Pichler, (gen. “Mondpichler”) Austrian Doctor, journalist, television commentator and entrepreneur; space medics; 1949 Founding of the drug manufacturing company “Sigmapharm”; 1969 commentator, together with Hugo Portisch, the first moon landing at ORF (1921-2018); Luciano Berio, Italian conductor and composer (1926-2003).
name days: August, Bruno, Ludolf, Auguste, Johannes, Julius, Randolf, Bedo, Philipp, Friedrich, Margareta.
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