2024-04-08 22:50:44
On Tuesday, April 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1844: “The Torn One”, a farce with vocals by Johann Nestroy, premieres in Vienna. The author plays Lips.
1909: The first buses with a closed upper deck were introduced in London, but they were not used until 1925.
1939: The French steamer “Flandre” leaves for Cuba with 102 Jewish refugees. He returns after two months: no country was ready to take in the people.
1949: The Western powers renounce so-called “German property” in Austria.
1999: The military ruler of the West African Republic of Niger, General Ibrahim Maïnassara, dies in a coup in Niamey.
2004: In Algeria, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is confirmed in office in a popular election.
2009: The Austrian author Elfriede Gerstl dies in Vienna at the age of 76. She wrote poems, essays and short prose pieces and was active in the “Vienna Group”. One of her best-known publications is the volume “Clothes Flight, Writing-Collecting-Living Spaces”.
2009: During the Czech EU Council Presidency, Czech President Václav Klaus officially appoints the non-party statistics expert Jan Fischer as the new interim prime minister of the EU Presidency country.
2019: An AUA passenger plane is attacked by four armed and masked robbers while loading at Tiran airport shortly before takeoff. They steal several million euros from the transport of valuables.
Birthdays: Theobald Böhm, German instrument maker (1794-1881); Élie Joseph Cartan, French mathematician (1869-1951); Arthur Briggs, US jazz musician (1899-1991); Ludwig Hohl, Swiss writer (1904-1980); Dennis Quaid, US actor (1954); Mario Matt, former Austrian Ski racer (1979).
Days of death: Pierre-Paul Philippe, French cardinal (1905-1984); Marcel Ichac, French documentary filmmaker (1906-1994); Elfriede Gerstl, Eastern Poet (1932-2009).
Name days: Waltraud, Hugo, Bogislaus, Konrad, Kasilda, Demetrius, Maria, Thomas, Gundegar.
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