2023-10-17 22:56:36
On Wednesday, October 18th, the book of history records, among other things:
1748: The Peace of Aachen ends the eight-year War of the Austrian Succession: The Pragmatic Sanction of Emperor Charles VI. from 1713 to secure female succession to the throne is generally accepted.
1818: The “Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft” is founded in Jena to represent the students from 14 universities.
1848: Prince Alfred zu Windischgrätz receives supreme command of the imperial troops and begins preparations for the military reconquest of Vienna.
1913: Austria-Hungary ultimately calls on Serbia to evacuate the occupied Albanian territory. Belgrade complies with the request on October 25th.
1913: The 91 meter high Battle of the Nations Monument in Leipzig will be ceremoniously inaugurated in the presence of the German Emperor Wilhelm II on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations, which ended with Napoleon’s defeat. It glorifies the victory of the Prussian, Russian and Austrian troops over the French army.
1918: US President Woodrow Wilson rejects Austria-Hungary’s note of October 4th on the grounds that the autonomy it offered for Czechs and South Slavs had become irrelevant as a result of the events.
1918: British troops take Aleppo.
1943: The first thousand Italian Jews abducted by the German occupying forces are deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp.
1948: In a speech to the officer corps, Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald rejected the apolitical nature of the army as a “bourgeois invention” and called on “the working class to take control of the armed forces.”
1953: Laying of the foundation stone for the Vienna Stadthalle, which was completed in 1958 according to plans by the architect Roland Rainer.
1958: The first couple who met through a computer on a television show is married in Hollywood.
1963: British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigns. His successor will be the previous Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
1978: After long deliberations, the National Council passes the data protection law.
1978: US President Jimmy Carter orders the construction of warheads with neutron bombs.
1998: In Nigeria, nearly 2,000 people are killed in an explosion that ignites a huge pool of gasoline caused by leaks in a pipeline near a refinery in the Niger Delta.
2003: In a referendum, Romanians voted with a large majority in favor of a constitutional change with a view to their country’s desired accession to the EU.
2003: The Arabic TV news channel Al Jazeera broadcasts a tape with the voice of Osama Bin Laden threatening attacks on any country that supports the US war in Iraq.
2008: 25,000 people take part in the funeral service for the late Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider in Klagenfurt. The body of the BZÖ boss was cremated a few weeks later.
Birthdays: Prince Eugene of Savoy, Eastern General (1663-1736); Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, French statesman, Duke of Parma (1753-1824); Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician (1873-1951); Lotte Lenya, Eastern-US actress and singer (1898-1981); Ferenc Nagy, Hungarian politician (1903-1979); Albert Frey, black American architect Origin (1903-1998); Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician (1918-2017); Michael Stich, German tennis player (1968).
Days of death: Jacob Jordaens, Dutch painter (1593-1678); Charles Gounod, French composer (1818-1893); Kolo (Koloman) Moser, Eastern Painter and visual artist (1868-1918); Reinhard Piper, German publisher (1879-1953).
Name days: Luke, Justus, Heinrich, Barthilde, Gwendolyn, Florian, Isaac, Paul, Peter.
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