September 23, 1968: The first regular television studio in Vienna-Rosenhügel goes into operation

2023-09-22 22:08:16

On Saturday, September 23rd, the book of history records, among other things:

1913: The French pilot Roland Garros is the first person to fly over the Mediterranean. It takes off from Saint-Raphaël on the southern French coast and lands near Tunis.
1933: Construction of the Frankfurt-Heidelberg motorway begins with Adolf Hitler’s groundbreaking ceremony.
1938: President Edvard Beneš orders the general mobilization of the Czechoslovak army.
1943: 8,400 officers and soldiers of the Italian “Acqui” division under General Antonio Gandin, who resisted capture on the island of Kefalonia off the Gulf of Corinth, are shot by the Germans.
1963: Premiere of the film drama “The Silence” by Ingmar Bergman in Stockholm. Because of its open depiction of sexual acts, the work led to one of the biggest film scandals of the time and triggered a censorship debate.
1968: Commissioning of the first regular television studio in Vienna-Rosenhügel.
1973: In Argentina, ex-general Juan Domingo Perón is re-elected president following 18 years in exile, and his third wife María Estela (Isabel) is elected vice-president.
1988: Pope John Paul II reiterates that women cannot be admitted to the priesthood in the Catholic Church.
1993: In South Africa, an ethnically mixed Executive Council is formed to control the government until the first general elections in 1994 and the final abolition of the apartheid system.
1993: The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approves the Washington Treaty with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
2003: After work at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden, a power outage paralyzed large parts of Sweden and Denmark for hours.
2008: During a shooting at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, a 22-year-old student shoots ten people and then kills himself. This is the second shooting at a school in Finland within a year.
2013: The German federal election ends with triumph and fall for the government coalition: While Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU wins clearly and is scraping by an absolute majority, the junior partner FDP is thrown out of parliament. The SPD comes in second by a clear margin and only makes minimal gains, the Greens lose, meaning a red-green majority is lost. The hapless SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück is withdrawing.

Birthdays: Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl, Eastern. painter (1718-1789); Gaby Dohm, German-Eastern actress (1943); Julio Iglesias, Spanish pop singer (1943); David Unterberger, Eastern Ski jumper (1988).
Days of death: Alexander Sutherland Neill, founder of anti-authoritarian education (1883-1973); Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet; Nobel Prize 1971 (1904-1973); António Ramos Rosa, Portuguese writer (1924-2013); Paul Kuhn, German jazz musician (1928-2013); Gary Kurtz, US film producer (1940-2018); Heinz Krassnitzer, Austrian cultural organizer (1953-2013); Alois “Zipflo” Weinrich, Eastern. Jazz violinist (1964-2018).
Name days: Helene, Gerhild, Thekla, Linus, Luitwin, Victor, Rotrud, Basin.

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