2023-08-02 22:29:00
Under Thursday, August 3, the book of history records, among other things:
1778: With Antonio Salieri’s “Europa riconosciuta”, the Milan Scala (“Teatro alla scala”/Staircase Theater) opens after only one and a half years of construction. Built by the architect Giuseppe Piermarini on the site of the church of Santa Maria della Scala, the opera house has 146 boxes in six tiers and can accommodate 3,600 visitors (partially destroyed in 1943, rebuilt in its original form in 1946).
1858: After the dissolution of the East India Company, the English state assumes power of government in India.
1893: The first volume of Karl Mays Winnetou appears in Freiburg.
1933: Opening of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (Stalin Canal) in Karelia, between the White Sea and Lake Onega. It is 227 km long, of which 37 km are artificial waterways, has 19 locks and is navigable for ships up to 5,200 tons.
1948: Austria is only admitted to the Danube Conference in Belgrade with observer status.
1958: The nuclear-powered US submarine “Nautilus” reaches the North Pole after crossing the Arctic ice cap.
1963: The Swiss mountain guide Michel Darbellay is the first to conquer the north face of the Eiger alone.
1968: A two-day summit of the orthodox Eastern Bloc countries with the Czechoslovak leadership ends in Bratislava. The CSSR is granted its own way to socialism.
1983: A Swedish research institute reports that in the first six months of 1983 at least 25 underground nuclear weapons tests were conducted by the US, USSR, France and Britain.
1983: At a reception in the Hessian state parliament, Member of Parliament Frank Schwalba-Hoth spattered US General Paul S. Williams with blood.
1993: Bosnian Serb troops completely encircle the capital Sarajevo.
1993: An advisory council for the ethnic groups in Burgenland is set up to represent the interests of this ethnic group.
1998: In Prinzendorf (Lower Austria), Hermann Nitsch begins the “6-day play” with his Orgies-Mysterien-Theater, causing the “art scandal” of the year.
2003: All of Europe is suffering from a heat wave. Numerous forest fires are raging in Portugal, and in Central Europe the thermometer is rising to 37 degrees.
2008: Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies of heart failure in Moscow at the age of 89. His main work is “The Gulag Archipelago” (1973), in which he depicts Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union.
birthdays: Auguste Schmidt, German women’s rights activist (1833-1902); Habib Bourguiba, tunes. politician (1903-2000); Birgit Cullberg, Swedish choreographer (1908-1999); Shenouda (Schenuda) III. of Alexandria, Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (Coptic Church) (1923-2012); Ingrid Caven, German actress (1938); Christina Bernadotte, Princess of Sweden (1943); Mirko Kovats, Austria investors (1948); Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French politician (1948); James Hetfield, US rock musician (Metallica) (1963); Ulrike Sima, Austria politician, Wr. Councilor for the Environment (SPÖ) (1968); Katja Studt, German actress (1973).
days of death: Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soviet Marshal (1896-1968); Karl Czernetz, Austria Politician and President of the Council of Europe (1910-1978); Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Soviet writer (1918-2008); Peter Safar, Austria physicians (1924-2003); Alfred Schnittke, Russian-German. Composer (1934-1998).
name days: Lydia, Stefan, Bernhelm, August, Benno, Burkhard, Nerodemus, Salome, Peter, Dalmatia.
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