2023-08-06 22:48:15
Under Monday, August 7, the book of history records, among other things:
1258: The Stephanskirche in Vienna falls victim to a fire. During the reconstruction, the nave was raised and lengthened and the Romanesque west gallery was built.
1743: In the Peace of Åbo, Sweden has to cede large parts of south-eastern Finland to Russia.
1888: The Dutch inventor Theophilus Van Kannel receives a patent for the revolving door.
1908: The “Venus von Willendorf”, an eleven centimeter high, 25,000 year old limestone figurine from the Paleolithic, is being excavated during railway construction. It is the oldest surviving work of art in Austria.
1943: Soviet troops reach the area 40 kilometers north of Kharkov. In the central sector they made deep penetrations into the German front between Vyazma and Smolensk.
1948: A German court sentences Nazi writer Hans Zöberlein to death as the former leader of a “werewolf” company for the murder of 16 residents by his group the night before US troops invaded Penzberg (sentence later commuted to life in 1958 Zöberlein was released).
1988: UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar announces ceasefire between Iran and Iraq effective August 20.
1988: The states involved in the Angola conflict agree on an immediate ceasefire.
1993: Buckingham Palace opens to the public in London. Queen Elizabeth II decided to open the palace to help finance the restoration of Windsor Castle, which was badly damaged in a fire in November 1992.
1993: For Heide Schmidt, the transit agreement is not irrevocable in the event of EU accession.
1998: Devastating bomb attacks on the US embassies in the East African states of Kenya and Tanzania claim around 260 lives. Authorship is attributed to Saudi Arabian terrorist Osama bin Laden, who has his headquarters in Afghanistan.
2003: A bomb attack on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad kills 19 people.
birthdays: Scipione Riva-Rocci, Italian physician; 1896 inventor of a pneumatic arm cuff for a mercury sphygmomanometer (1863-1937); Joachim Ringelnatz, German poet (1883-1934); Louis Seymour Leakey, British paleontologist (1903-1972); Maria Reining, Austria soprano (1903-1991); Rudolf Steinboeck, Austria Director (1908-1996); Curth Anatol Tichy, Austria actor (1923-2004); Helen Vita, Switzerland. actress (1928-2001); Giorgio Giugiaro, Italian industrial designer (1938); Heinz Rudolf Unger, Austria writer (1938-2018); Helen Caldicott, Australian-US doctor, author, opponent of nuclear power and peace activist (1938).
days of death: Jons Jacob v. Berzelius, Swedish chemist (1779-1848); Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian actor and director (1863-1938); Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, Hungarian singer (1876-1948); Viktor Pöttler, Austria Museum Director (1924-2013); Anton Lehmden, Austria Painter (1929-2018).
name days: Sixtus, Cajetan, Afra, Donatus, Albert, Juliana, Digna, Konrad, Vinzenz, Stephan, Cassian.
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