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1713: Emperor Charles VI in the “Pragmatic Sanction” decreed the indivisibility of the Habsburg lands. In the absence of male heirs, female descendants are entitled to inherit.
1783: The US Congress announces the end of the American War of Independence.
1928: Japanese troops occupy the Chinese coastal province of Shandong (Schantung).
1943: Beginning of the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1978: Israeli politician Yitzhak Navon is elected fifth President of the State of Israel (until 1983).
1993: Security forces are preparing to storm a ranch near Waco (US state of Texas), in which the so-called Davidian sect has been holed up for seven weeks. The mansion is set on fire on the orders of cult leader David Koresh. 78 people die in the flames.
1998: Federal President Thomas Klestil is confirmed in office with 63.5 percent of the votes for a second six-year mandate. This is the fourth re-election of a president in the Second Republic following those of Adolf Schärf (1963), Franz Jonas (1971) and Rudolf Kirchschläger (1980). Klestil’s opponents were the evangelical superintendent Gertraud Knoll (13.5 percent), the founder of the Liberal Forum Heide Schmidt (11.1 percent), who had left the FPÖ, the building contractor Richard Lugner (9.9 percent) and Karl Walter Nowak (2.0 percent). ). The SPÖ had not nominated a candidate.
2008: Three Romanians, who disguised themselves as fake police officers, got into a police check in a parking lot on the Vienna Outer Ring Expressway, where the officers fired on the men. A Romanian is killed.
2013: Five years following Kosovo’s independence, Serbia and its former province agree on the status of the Serb community in northern Kosovo. This clears the way for Serbia and Kosovo to move closer to the EU.
birthdays: Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (1793-1873); Richard Edler von Mises, Austria. mathematician (1883-1953); Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian politician (1883-1954); Oswald Menghin, East. historian, prehistorian; 1935-1936 Rector of the University of Vienna, 1938 Minister of Education (1888-1973); Alexis Korner, British rock musician (1928-1984); Jayne Mansfield, US actress (1933-1967); Claus Theo Gärtner, German actor (1943); Ulli Philipp, Austria actress (1943); Ashley Judd, US actress (1968); James Franco, US actor (1978).
days of death: Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (1528-1588); Hans Kelsen, Austria Law scholar, “Creator of the Austrian Constitution” (1881-1973); Horst Wolfram Geißler, German writer (1893-1983); Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer (1909-1983); Octavio Paz, Mexican writer; Nobel Prize 1990 (1914-1998); Allen “Al” Neuharth, US newspaper founder (1924-2013); Klaus Michael Meyer-Abich, German philosopher (1936-2018); David Koresh (aka Vernon Wayne Howell) US sect founder; “Davidians” (1959-1993).
name days: Leo, Gerold, Werner, Emma, Kreszentia, Friedrich, Arminia, Kuno, Jutta, Timon.
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