2024-02-09 23:46:12
On Saturday, February 10th, the book of history records, among other things:
1364: A mutual inheritance contract is concluded between the houses of Habsburg and Luxembourg. (The Habsburg Rudolf IV was married to a daughter of Emperor Charles IV).
1909: Austrian Prime Minister Richard Graf von Bienerth-Schmerling forms a new cabinet.
1924: In the costly Battle of Ocotlán, Mexican government troops achieved a decisive victory over the insurgents under General Adolfo de la Huerta.
1939: Pope Pius XI dies in the 18th year of his pontificate. 82 years old in Rome. After his encyclical “With Burning Concern” (1937), he prepared another condemnation of the methods of the Hitler regime, which, however, was not published following his death. Through the Lateran Treaties he achieved a reconciliation of interests with fascist Italy and the restoration of state sovereignty for the Vatican. In a short conclave, Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, who takes the name Pius XII, is elected as his successor. accepts.
1944: British-Turkish secret negotiations are broken off in Ankara without results. Under President İsmet İnönü, Turkey is sticking to its neutrality in the Second World War and rejects an “obligation to form an alliance” with the Allies.
1949: Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” with Lee J. Cobb in the leading role premieres in New York. The drama, described as a slap in the face to American capitalism, becomes a global success.
1949: North Korea (Korean Democratic People’s Republic) unsuccessfully applies for admission to the United Nations.
1954: Units of the Viet Minh Liberation Front under General Vo Nguyen Giap encircle the French troops in the jungle fortress of Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam, which has to surrender on May 7th.
1974: A strike by 270,000 miners begins in Great Britain once morest the policies of the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath.
1984: After the death of Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko becomes general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. As the new Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, he shortly followingwards also took over the functions of Head of State of the USSR from his deceased predecessor.
1994: Russia protests once morest NATO’s ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to stop attacks on Sarajevo.
1994: The African National Congress (ANC), founded in 1912 as the oldest African civil rights movement, is registered as a political party in South Africa following the end of the apartheid system.
1999: A fire in the Russian Volga city of Samara kills 67 people.
2004: In Iraq, at least 53 people are killed in a bomb attack on a police station in the city of Iskandariya.
2004: The secularism law is passed by the Paris National Assembly. It bans the wearing of headscarves and other conspicuous religious symbols in public schools. It comes into force with the new school year.
2014: A father in Vienna is caught abusing his two-year-old daughter: a construction worker from the building opposite observes what is happening, pulls out his cell phone and films it for evidence before alerting the police. The 50-year-old admits to having abused his youngest daughter in January. In June he was sentenced to five years in prison and also sent to an institution for mentally abnormal criminals.
Birthdays: Thomas Platter, black scholar (1499-1582); Michael Raucheisen, German concert pianist (1889-1984); Harold Macmillan, Earl of Stockton, British statesman, Prime Minister 1957-63 (1894-1986); Larry Adler, US “King of the Harmonica” (1914-2001); Jerry Goldsmith, US composer and conductor (1929-2004); Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, French writer (1929-2006); Louis Hughes, US industrial manager (1949); Johan Harstad, Norway. Writer (1979).
Days of death: Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) (1857-1939); Josef Holaubek, police chief of Vienna (1907-1999); Johannes Vonderach, Black theologian (1916-1994); Fernand Andreani, French Concorde pilot, speed record holder on the Paris-NY route (3h 30 min. 11 sec.) (1923-2009); Shirley Temple, US actor and diplomat (1928-2014).
Name days: Wilhelm, Scholastica, Arnold, Gabriel, Bruno, Hugo, Ephraim, Clara, Zenon.
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