2023-10-21 22:21:23
On Sunday, October 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:
1873: Germany joins the “Schönbrunner Convention” between Austria-Hungary and Russia. In the so-called Three Emperors Agreement, the three powers commit themselves to the peaceful settlement of conflicts and to a common understanding in European disputes. (obsolete in 1876 as a result of the Austrian-Russian conflict in Balkan policy).
1883: In Lower Austria, Europe’s first electric tram, which was set up for permanent operation, began operating between Mödling and Hinterbrühl (until 1932).
1883: Opening of the New York Metropolitan Opera with Gounod’s “Faust”.
1918: The Austrian Prime Minister Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein resigns from his office.
1923: German government troops move into Leipzig and Dresden on the orders of Reich President Ebert.
1933: The American physicist Chester F. Carlson succeeded in the first transmission of writing using the xerographic process (“copy machine”) in the New York suburb of Astoria. In 1948, this process was presented at the meeting of the Optical Society, and two years later the first xerographic copier called “Model A” came onto the market.
1943: The German city of Kassel is transformed into a burning field of rubble by 450 Allied bombers within 85 minutes. The air raid causes 8,000 deaths.
1948: The former Dachau concentration camp commander, Alexander Piorkowski, is executed in Landsberg/Lech.
1958: In Great Britain, the first female members of the House of Lords appointed for life by Queen Elizabeth II are ceremoniously sworn in.
1973: In the Yom Kippur War, Israel and Egypt bow to a ceasefire appeal from the United Nations. The very next day new fighting breaks out.
1983: Around 70,000 people take part in the second peace march in Vienna.
2003: British researchers have analyzed human chromosome 6. With more than 166 million building blocks, this genetic material carrier is the largest human chromosome and contains almost 2,200 genes.
2003: Israel reaffirms its determination to continue building its barrier in the West Bank, which has been classified as violating international law, despite condemnation by the UN General Assembly.
2008: The BZÖ appoints the Carinthian MP Josef Bucher as club chairman. Stefan Petzner, who was actually intended for the office, had previously incurred displeasure because he had very emotionally described his “lifer” relationship with the late state governor Jörg Haider in several interviews.
Birthdays: Nadir Shah, Emperor of Persia, founder of the Afsharid dynasty (1688-1747); Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle, French poet (1818-1894); Auguste Victoria v. Schleswig-Holstein, German Empress (wife of Wilhelm II) (1858-1921); Marcel Mihalovici, French composer (1898-1985); Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (1913-1997); Eberhard Trumler, Austrian behaviorist/cynologist (1923-1991); Helmut Senekowitsch, Eastern football coach (1933-2007); Claus Hipp, German entrepreneur (1938); Catherine Deneuve, French actress (1943).
Days of death: Joachim Heinrich Campe, German educator (1746-1818); Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist (1876-1973); Erich Schmid, Eastern. physicist (1896-1983); Eric Ambler, British crime writer (1909-1998); Jiří Hájek, Czech civil rights activist/politician (1913-1993); Manfred Buhr, German philosopher (1927-2008); Gilberto Benetton, Italian entrepreneur (1941-2018).
Name days: Cordula, Ingobert, Walburga, Salome, Cora, Corinna, Contardo F., Wigard, Markus, Ewald, Jakob.
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