2024-03-05 23:22:34
On Wednesday, March 6th, the book of history records, among other things:
1629: At the instigation of the Catholic imperial princes, Emperor Ferdinand II issues the Edict of Restitution, which orders the return of the Catholic spiritual goods confiscated by the Protestants.
1714: The Peace of Rastatt ends the War of the Spanish Succession between France and Emperor Charles VI (which broke out following the death of the last Spanish Habsburg, Charles II, in 1700), who renounces Habsburg claims. The Duke of Anjou, grandson of the French King Louis XIV, is recognized as King of Spain under the name Philip V.
1904: At the German congress to combat sexually transmitted diseases, the use of condoms advocated by doctors once morest infections is rejected as “immoral”.
1909: Premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Griselda” at the Hofburg Theater in Vienna.
1929: The German Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Gustav Stresemann gives a highly regarded speech on the issue of the protection of national minorities before the League of Nations Council in Geneva.
1944: US bombers fly a daytime raid once morest Berlin for the first time.
1949: In Chile, President Gabriel González Videla’s four-party coalition, including the Socialists, wins the parliamentary elections.
1959: In a speech in the Macedonian capital Skopje, Yugoslavia’s head of state Marshal Josip Broz Tito accused the neighboring countries Bulgaria and Albania of intentions of conquest and described the governments in Sofia and Tirana as vicarious agents of Moscow.
1964: Greece’s King Paul I dies at the age of 62 as a result of an operation. His only son Constantine II ascends the throne.
1974: The National Council passes the Civil Service Act.
1979: German Federal President Walter Scheel (FDP) is not running for re-election because he has no chance once morest the CDU/CSU candidate in the Federal Assembly.
1989: New arms control negotiations begin in Vienna with disarmament initiatives from East and West.
2004: Libya is sending 500 tons of weapons of mass destruction materials to the US as part of its disarmament plans.
Birthdays: Jakob Fugger II the Rich, German banker (1459-1525); Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, French writer (1619-1655); Arnold Fanck, German film director (1889-1974); Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet (1909-1966); Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Soviet conductor (1914-1981); Sarah Caldwell, US conductor and opera director (1924-2006); William H. Webster, US lawyer; 1978-1987 FBI chief and 1987-1991 CIA chief (1924); Günter Kunert, German writer (1929-2019); Nicolas Bouvier, black writer (1929-1998); Adam Osborne, US computer expert (1939-2003); Peter Glotz, German politician (1939-2005); Norbert Steger, former Austrian Politician (1944); David Gilmour, British rock musician (Pink Floyd) (1944); Tom Arnold, US actor and author (1959).
Days of death: Josef Holeček, Czech writer (1853-1929); Martin Niemöller, German Protestant. theologian (1892-1984); Paul I, King of Greece (1901-1964); Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (1925-1994); Sheikh Issa Ben Salman al-Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain (1933-1999).
Name days: Fridolin, Nicoletta, Colette, Friedrich, Mechthild, Franziska, Quiriakus, Chrodegang, Nicole.
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