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48 v. Chr.: Caesar wins the civil war once morest the Pompeians with the decisive battle of Pharsalus.
378: The Roman emperor Valens fell at Adrianople (Hadrianopolis) in battle once morest the Visigoths, whom he had allowed to cross the border and settle in Thrace in 376.
1673: The Dutch recapture New Amsterdam (New York), which was occupied by the British on September 8, 1664, but finally cede the colony to Britain in 1674.
1903: The new Pope Pius X is crowned in Rome. Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, was to succeed Pope Leo XIII. elected following a veto (“Exclusive”) by Austria-Hungary prevented the election of pro-French Cardinal Secretary of State Mariano Rampolla.
1913: Professor Friedrich Bergius is granted a patent for gasoline synthesis (carbon hydrogenation).
1918: Six Italian planes fly over Vienna in the morning and drop tens of thousands of flyers. On board one of the planes is the poet Gabriele d’Annunzio. The people are called on to rise up once morest their “blind, stubborn and cruel government, which can give you neither bread nor peace”.
1943: The Catholic conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, a farmer from the Innviertel and a sacristan from St. Radegund, who was sentenced to death by the German Nazi regime for “undermining military strength”, was beheaded in Brandenburg. Out of Christian conviction, the Austrian had refused service in the German Wehrmacht. (The death sentence was declared overturned by the Berlin district court in 1997).
1948: In an offensive in the Grammos Mountains, Greek royal government troops seize the headquarters of the communist partisan leader, General Markos (aka Vafiadis).
1948: Czechoslovakia gets a new constitution following the communist takeover in February.
1968: A British charter plane crashes near Ingolstadt, killing all 48 occupants.
1978: The South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner conquers the 8,125 meter high Nanga Parbat single-handedly and without an oxygen mask.
1983: Six people are killed and 22 injured in a terrorist attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
1983: France sends troops to civil war-torn Chad.
1993: Accession to the throne of the new Belgian King Albert II, who takes the constitutional oath in the presence of his wife Paola and the widow of his brother and predecessor Baudouin I, Fabiola, before the two chambers of Parliament in Brussels. Baudouin died suddenly on July 31 while on vacation in Spain.
2008: The “Erste Bank Group” is reorganized. With the entry in the company register, the spin-off of “Erste Bank der oesterreichische Sparkassen AG” from the newly founded holding company “Erste Group Bank AG” becomes legally effective and one of the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe.
2013: Twelve years imprisonment and admission to an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers, that is the non-final verdict at the Vienna Regional Court for a 26-year-old man from Dornbirn. On a December evening in 2012, during rush hour, the man had beaten, choked and raped a young woman in an otherwise empty subway car.
2018: The new SPÖ program, which was approved by the grass roots for the first time, caused a dispute over the direction of the party. The climate chapter highlighted by party leader Christian Kern and the lack of focus on migration mean that the designated Burgenland state chairman Hans Peter Doskozil warns of “green-left fundi politics”. In return, Kern speaks of “obscure criticism”.
birthdays: Paul Renner, German graphic artist (1878-1956); Hans Oster, German General (1888-1945); Ludwig Schaschek, Austria cameraman (1888-1948); Hans Sittner, Austria composer/music writer (1903-1990); Robert Aldrich, US film director (1918-1983); Gerd Ruge, German journalist/publicist (1928); Leonid Danilovich Kuchma, Ukraine. Politician; President 1994-2005 (1938); Otto Rehhagel, former German football coach (1938); Whitney Houston, US pop singer (1963-2012); Gillian Anderson, British actress (1968); Eric Bana, Australia. Actor (1968).
days of death: Flavius Valens, Roman Emperor (328-378); Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist (1873-1938); Fritz Stiedry, Austria conductor (1883-1968); Franz Jägerstätter, Austria conscientious objectors in World War II; executed by the Nazis (1907-1943); Reinhard Kamitz, Austria politician (1907-1993); Jacques Deray, French film director (1929-2003).
name days: Hadmon, Roman, Altmann, Roland, Edith, Hadmar, Hademar, Adam, John, Anton.
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