2023-04-28 22:19:46
Under Saturday, April 29, the book of history records, among other things:
998: Johannes Crescentius Nomentanus, who had reigned supreme in Rome following the death of Otto II, is on the orders of Emperor Otto III. executed.
1738: Pope Clement XII. prohibits membership in the Freemasons. In his bull “In eminenti” he names four “sins” of the Freemasons: religious tolerance, unbreakable silence, endangerment of the state and heresy.
1798: Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” premieres in the Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna.
1848: Pope Pius IX breaks away from the Italian national movement.
1903: Bulgarian independence fighters in Macedonia carry out a bomb attack on the Ottomanbank branch in Thessaloniki.
1913: The Austro-Hungarian army masses 80,000 men on the border with Montenegro to force an end to the Montenegrin occupation of the northern Albanian town of Scutari (Shkoder).
1913: The number switch, also known as the dial, is developed by Siemens & Halske and a patent is pending.
1918: Finnish White Guards recapture Wiborg (Viipuri) from the Red Guards with the help of a German expeditionary force.
1923: In Poland, the foundation stone is laid for the port of Gdynia (Gdingen) to compete with Gdansk (Gdańsk).
1938: The League of Nations Council recognizes Switzerland’s absolute neutrality.
1943: The film “The Wirtin zum Weißen Rössl” with Leny Marenbach and Karl Schönböck has its world premiere in Munich.
1948: The Fiat works in Turin present the “Fiat 500 B”. The “Topolino” reaches a top speed of 95 kilometers per hour.
1968: In the course of the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” unleashed by CP Chairman Mao Zedong in the southern Chinese metropolis of Canton (Guangzhou), heavy armed clashes erupted between Red Guards and the regular army.
1978: The first Viennese city festival, initiated by the Viennese ÖVP, takes place. Founder and organizer (until 2000) is Alf Krauliz.
1988: An explosion in an Aloha Airways airliner during a flight to Honolulu rips a twenty-foot hole in the plane’s roof. Reason: material fatigue. The pilot manages an emergency landing on an island 40 kilometers away. A stewardess is thrown out of the machine, 59 of the 95 occupants are injured.
1993: After the resignation of the socialist Giuliano Amato, the independent central bank governor Carlo Azeglio Ciampi becomes Italian Prime Minister.
2003: France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg agree to coordinate their defense policies more closely and set up a joint planning and command staff.
2003: In the Iraqi Sunni city of Falluja, US occupation soldiers open fire on a demonstrating crowd – 13 dead.
birthdays: Johann Heinrich Lips, Switzerland. painter, engraver (1758-1817); Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1818-1881); William Randolph Hearst, US journalist/publisher (1863-1951); Walter Deutsch, Austria composer and folk music researcher (1923); Irvin Kershner, US director/actor (1923-2010); Mark Eyskens, Belgian politician (1933); Willie Nelson, US singer (1933); Otto Matthäus Zykan, Austrian conductor (1935-2006); Ian Kershaw, British historian (1943); Michelle Pfeiffer, US film actress (1958); Michael Niavarani, Aust. Author, actor and cabaret artist (1968); Michael “Bully” Herbig, German actor, director, producer and writer (1968); Jürgen Vogel, German actor (1968); David Belle, French parkour runner (1973).
days of death: Hans von Haberer, Austria. physicians (1875-1958); Albert Hofmann, Switzerland. chemist (discoverer of the effects of LSD) (1906-2008); Gerhard Heufler, Austria Industrial Designer (1944-2013).
name days: Katharina, Roswitha, Petrus, Sibylla, Wilfried, Hugo, Bona, Karin, Katja, Robert, Dieter, Irmtraud.
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