2024-01-03 23:29:57
On Thursday, January 4th, the book of history records, among other things:
1849: The Hungarian Imperial Administrator Ludwig Kossuth and the Hungarian Reichstag flee to Debrecen, where the loss of the throne of the “faithless House of Habsburg” is announced.
1929: The German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling wins a fight once morest the American Joe Sekyra on points at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1934: The German “Reich Bishop” Ludwig Müller, loyal to the Nazi regime, forbids Protestant pastors from “any criticism of the policies of the Reich government” in their sermons.
1964: Paul VI is the first pope since Peter to visit. the Holy Land to meet with the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, the head of Orthodox Christianity.
1969: After 108 years of rule in Ifni province, Spain returns the enclave to Morocco.
1979: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi appoints the opposition politician Shapur Baktiar as Prime Minister of Iran.
1989: US naval aircraft shoot down two Libyan warplanes over the Mediterranean.
2009: The Austrian author Gert Jonke dies in Vienna at the age of 62. Jonke was one of the most important local contemporary authors (“The Birds”, “Chor Fantasy”, “Stoffgewitter”, “Freier Fall”). In 1977 he became the first winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, followed in 2002 by the Great Austrian State Prize for Literature.
Birthdays: Isaac Newton, English physicist/mathematician (1643-1727); Louis Braille, French teacher for the blind, inventor of Braille (1809-1852); Arik Brauer, Eastern painter/songwriter (1929-2021); Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic (1939-2015); Margaret Anne Marshall, British opera singer (1949).
Days of death: Karl Fr. v. Hasenauer, eastern architect (1833-1894); Peter Frankenfeld, German entertainer (1913-1979); Josef Staribacher, Eastern. politician (1921-2014); Gert Jonke, Austrian Writer (1946-2009).
Name days: Angela, Marius, Titus, Robert, Rudiger, Isabella, Roger, Maro, Angelika, Christiane, Anastasia.
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