2024-04-28 22:33:14
On Monday, April 29th, the book of history records, among other things:
1624: Cardinal Richelieu takes over as King Louis XIII’s First Minister. government affairs in France.
1824: The USA and Russia treaty establish a border line for Russian settlements on the American West Coast. Russian fur traders had penetrated further and further south from Alaska. In 1867 the USA acquired Alaska.
1849: King Friedrich August of Saxony dissolves both chambers of the state parliament. Parliament had previously refused to approve the taxes in order to force the crown to recognize the German imperial constitution.
1879: The Bulgarian National Assembly elects Prince Alexander of Battenberg as Alexander I as Prince of Bulgaria (under Turkish sovereignty).
1899: Belgian engineer Camille Jenatzy sets a speed record with his electric car near Achères near Paris by breaking the hundred kilometer per hour barrier.
1904: Russia rejects all mediation efforts by other powers in its war once morest Japan.
1914: The Jewish associations in Berlin are protesting once morest anti-Semitic tendencies in the German youth movement.
1949: The German Cardinal Joseph Frings resigns his CDU membership. He refers to the Reich Concordat, which does not allow Catholic clergy to belong to a political party.
1954: The US refuses to carry out air strikes in Indochina to support French troops encircled in Dien Bien Phu. They were then defeated by the units of Viet Minh independence fighters and had to surrender on May 7th.
1964: The National Council passes the anti-corruption law.
1964: In Rome, the Dutch Princess Irene, second-born daughter of Queen Juliana, is married to Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, a nephew of the Austrian ex-Empress Zita. Because she converts to Catholicism, she has to renounce her rights to the throne in the Netherlands.
1989: Federal Chancellor Vranitzky underlines the indispensability of Austrian neutrality and declares at the Vienna SPÖ state party conference: “Not in the EC at any price!”
2009: The Austrian-Canadian auto supplier Magna wants to join the German car manufacturer Opel together with Russian partners and raise around five billion euros for the rescue. A months-long bidding war ensued until GM suddenly decided not to sell Opel following all.
2009: The swine flu has reached Austria: The Ministry of Health confirms the first infection in Vienna following completing the virological tests. A 28-year-old was infected with the H1N1 virus while visiting her parents in Guatemala.
Birthdays: Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (1854-1912); Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (1879-1961); Paul Hörbiger, Eastern. actor (1894-1981); Gustav Tauschek, Eastern inventor (1899-1945); Duke Ellington, US jazz pianist (1899-1974); Reinhard Kolldehoff, German actor (1914-1995); Renée Marcelle (Zizi) Jeanmaire, French dancer (1924-2020); Walter Kempowski, German writer (1929-2007); Hermann Scheer, German politician (1944-2010); Julian Knowle, former Austrian Tennis player (1974).
Days of death: Josef Werndl, east. arms manufacturer (1831-1889); Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Baron of Oakridge, Brit. General (1896-1974); Julius Katchen, US pianist (1926-1969); Bob Hoskins, Brit. Actor (1942-2014); John Singleton, US film director (1968-2019).
Name days: Katharina, Roswitha, Petrus, Sibylla, Wilfried, Hugo, Bona, Karin, Katja, Robert, Dieter, Irmtraud.
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