2023-12-14 23:36:30
On Friday, December 15th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: The Hungarian Reichstag under the leadership of Lajos Kossuth declares the abdication of Emperor Ferdinand I invalid and protests against the accession of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
1858: Opening of the Western Railway with the Vienna-Linz route.
1858: The comic opera “The Barber of Bagdad” by Peter Cornelius premieres in Weimar.
1888: The world’s first urban central heating system opens in Boston.
1938: The car company Opel includes the “Captain” in its range. With a self-supporting all-steel body and modern drive technology, the “Captain”, which is available as a two- and four-door sedan and as a four-seat convertible, takes on a technical pioneering role in this car class. Production stopped in 1970.
1943: American bombers fly a heavy daytime raid against Innsbruck from North Africa, resulting in 281 deaths.
1948: In Berlin-Spandau, the Frey Bridge over the Havel is opened to traffic, connecting Spandau with the rest of Berlin again.
1973: The billionaire grandson Paul Getty, who was kidnapped in Italy, is released after paying a ransom equivalent to around 50 million schillings.
1983: The Vienna troop reduction talks (MBFR negotiations) are suspended by the Soviet Union for an indefinite period.
1988: Surprising turnaround in Middle East policy: The USA begins dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993: 117 countries conclude the eighth world trade round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and agree to reduce tariffs by around a third and export subsidies by a fifth.
1993: British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds sign an agreement that enables a peace solution for Northern Ireland.
2008: In the largest bribery scandal in German economic history, the electrical company Siemens has to pay fines of around one billion euros in Germany and the USA.
2008: Almost six weeks after the election in the USA, the 538 electors formally elected the Democrat Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Obama had on November 4th. can gather the votes of 365 electoral men and women. His Republican opponent John McCain, however, only got 173 votes.
Birthdays: Hans Carossa, German writer (1878-1956); Maxwell Anderson, US playwright (1888-1959); Masayoshi Ito, Japan. politician (1913-1994); Friedensreich Hundertwasser, (also known as Friedrich Stowasser) east. painter (1928-2000); Gregory III (born Lutfi Laham), Patriarch of Antioch and the All East; 2000-2017 Head of the Roman Catholic Church. Church of the United Melkite Greek Catholic. Church (1933); Michael Bogdanov, British director (1938-2017); Juan Carlos Wasmosy, entrepreneur and President of Paraguay 1993-1998 (1938); Thomas Stroux, German actor (1943); Helen Slater, US actress (1963); Surya Bonaly, former French figure skater (1973).
Days of death: Wolfgang Pauli, Eastern-US physicist; Nobel Prize 1945 (1900-1958); Thomas “Fats” Waller, US jazz musician (1904-1943); Joan Fontaine, US actress (1917-2013); Carlo Caracciolo, Italian publisher, “opponent” of media magnate Berlusconi (1925-2008).
Name days: Christiana, Nina, Wunibald, Valerian, Paola, Reinald, Ignaz, Nina, Folkwin, Maria di R., Carlo.
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