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1883: First meeting in the newly built Reichsrat building (parliament) on Vienna’s Ringstrasse.
1893: The first electric street lighting in Vienna is on at Kohlmarkt.
1943: British planes bomb Leipzig: almost 1,200 dead.
1948: Founding of the “Free University of Berlin” in West Berlin.
1953: At the Bermuda Conference of the three major Western powers it was decided that the UN and NATO should remain the basis of common policy.
1963: The second phase of the Second Vatican Council, which opened on September 29th, is coming to an end.
1978: In internal elections under South African supervision, the democratic gymnasium alliance prevails in Namibia.
1983: American fighter planes attack Syrian positions in northern Lebanon for the first time and lose two aircraft.
1993: Caritas President Helmut Schüller receives a letter bomb from terrorist Franz Fuchs, but remains unhurt.
2008: Linz-born Thomas Henzinger (45) becomes the first president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) in Maria Gugging. The computer scientist comes into play following the German Tobias Bonhoeffer declined following his designation.
2008: During a raid on a Parisian luxury jeweler, gangsters stole jewelry worth up to 63 million euros.
2013: The EU Commission is punishing six financial institutions with record fines totaling 1.7 billion euros for manipulating interest rates such as Libor. The affected banks include the Royal Bank of Scotland, the French Société Générale, the Deutsche Bank and the US banks Citigroup and JPMorgan as well as the British broker RP Martin. Deutsche Bank is paying the highest fine of 725 million euros. The British Barclays and the Swiss UBS avoid penalties because they informed the cartel watchdogs regarding the manipulation.
Birthdays: Sir Herbert Edward Read, English essayist (1893-1968); Maly Delschaft, German actress (1898-1995); Alfred D. Hershey, US molecular biologist; Nobel Prize 1969 (1908-1997); Witold Wirpsza, Polish writer (1918-1985); Horst Buchholz, German actor (1933-2003); Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian former football player (1953); Sergej Bubka, Russian track and field athlete (1963); Tyra Banks, US model (1973).
Days of death: Luigi Galvani, Italian doctor and naturalist (1737-1798); Josef Mohr, Eastern Priest/lyricist of “Silent Night” (1792-1848); Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, Russian entrepreneur and patron (1832-1898); Stefan George, German poet (1868-1933); Albrecht Schönhals, German actor (1888-1978); Frank Zappa, US rock musician (1940-1993).
Name days: Barbara, Johannes, Ada, Christian, Osmund, Adolf, Bernhard, Simon, Anno, Babette, Petrus.
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