2023-12-09 23:51:56
On Sunday, December 10th, the book of history records, among other things:
1508: Pope Julius II and Emperor Maximilian join forces with France, Spain and England in the League of Cambrai once morest the Republic of Venice.
1848: Establishment of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce.
1848: Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Emperor Napoleon I, becomes President of the Second French Republic by plebiscite. (In 1852 he assumed the title of emperor as Napoleon III).
1868: The first gas-powered traffic lights are installed in central London.
1878: The first crematorium goes into operation in Germany. The cremation site is in Gotha.
1898: In the Peace of Paris, which ends the Spanish-American War, Spain must cede the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the USA and agree to Cuba’s independence.
1903: The international automobile exhibition is opened in the Grand Palais in Paris by French President Èmile Loubet.
1913: Indian Rabindranath Tagore is the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Styrian poet Peter Rosegger, who was also nominated, was not shortlisted. However, Tagore ensured that Rosegger’s works were also published in India.
1923: The university professor Fritz Pregl, who works in Graz, receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the method he developed for the quantitative microanalysis of organic compounds.
1933: The Austrian Erwin Schrödinger received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with the British Paul Dirac for the “discovery of fruitful principles for the development of atomic theory”.
1938: The American writer Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1948: The UN General Assembly adopts the Declaration of Human Rights.
1963: The island sultanate of Zanzibar becomes independent (later united with Tanganyika to form the Federal Republic of Tanzania).
1963: The Red Cross receives the Nobel Peace Prize for the third time following 1917 and 1944.
1973: The federal government closes the Schönau transit camp in Lower Austria for Jewish USSR emigrants.
1983: Danuta Walęsa accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for her husband Lech. The Polish labor leader refrained from traveling to Norway because he feared that his country’s communist authorities would prevent him from returning home.
1983: With the inauguration of the democratically elected President Raúl Alfonsín, Argentina’s eight-year military dictatorship ends.
1993: Awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the President of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, and to the South African head of state Frederik de Klerk, who ended the apartheid system.
2018: A former police officer took women in a car at night in Siberia, raped and murdered them. A court in Irkutsk sentenced him to life imprisonment for the second time for 56 murders. The man, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and imprisoned in 2015 for killing 22 other women, is Russia’s most notorious serial killer.
Birthdays: Giovanni Guarini, Italian poet (1538-1612); Andrej Vyshinsky, Soviet lawyer and politician (1883-1954); Olivier Messiaen, French composer (1908-1992); Morton Gould, US composer (1913-1996); Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer (1923-2011); Cornelia Funke, German author of children’s and young adult books (1958).
Days of death: Edward “Ed” Wood Jr., US film director (1924-1978); Robert Spaemann, German philosopher and author (1927-2018); Jim Hall, US jazz guitarist (1930-2013); Günter Seuren, German writer (1932-2003).
Name days: Angelina, Herbert, Petrus, Diethard, Eulalia, Angeline, Miltiades, Julia, Meinrad, Imma, Jakob, Judith.
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