2024-02-10 23:50:58
On Sunday, February 11th, the book of history records, among other things:
1889: Emperor Mutsuhito (1852-1912), whose reign has gone down in history as the Meiji era, issues the first Japanese constitution. It is based on the Prussian one and provides for a two-chamber parliament with an aristocratic upper house.
1899: The first fatal motorcycle accident occurs in London.
1919: In Weimar, the German National Assembly elects the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert as the first Reich President with 277 of 328 votes. He commissioned his party colleague Philipp Scheidemann to form a government.
1929: Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri sign the Lateran Treaty. In it, fascist Italy recognized the 44 hectare Vatican City as a sovereign state. The Pope is compensated for the loss of the Papal States, which fell victim to the unification of Italy in 1870.
1934: During a home defense exercise in Großenzersdorf in Lower Austria, Vice Chancellor Emil Fey threatened: “We will go to work tomorrow – and we will do a great job!”.
1934: Great Britain signs a treaty of friendship with the Yemeni King Yahya.
1949: The member countries of the newly founded Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA/Comecon) are calling on the Yugoslav government to “renounce its policies directed once morest the Soviet Union and the people’s democratic states.”
1954: US President Dwight Eisenhower rejects any active American participation in the French Indochina War.
1979: The last Iranian Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar, appointed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi before his escape but not recognized by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, resigns and goes into hiding. Khomeini had already appointed Mehdi Bazargan as provisional prime minister.
1989: The Czechoslovakian Communist Party leadership rules out dialogue with the opposition.
1994: After NATO’s ultimate demand for the Bosnian Serbs to withdraw heavy weapons within a 20-kilometer radius of Sarajevo, the first guns will be handed over to UN representatives.
1994: The South Tyrolean state governor Luis Durnwalder is confirmed for another term of office by the state parliament in Bolzano.
2014: The Cornelius Gurlitt case has an Austrian component: more than 60 valuable works of art – including pictures by Monet, Renoir and Picasso – are found and confiscated in the German collector’s Salzburg home.
Birthdays: Else Lasker-Schuler, German poet (1869-1945); Jean Gilbert, French composer (1879-1942); Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, US film writer, director and producer (1909-1993); Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (1919-1995); Manuel Noriega, Panama. Dictator (according to other information 1938) ((1934-2017); John Surtees, British car and motorcycle racer (1934-2017); Sarah Palin, US politician (1964); Jennifer Aniston, US actress (1969).
Days of death: Honoré Daumier, French painter, graphic artist and caricaturist (according to other information February 10) (1808-1879); Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor and writer (1857-1949); Franz Schmidt, Eastern composer (1874-1939); Johann Freumbichler, Eastern writer (1881-1949); Leon Festinger, US psychologist (1919-1989); William Conrad, US actor (1920-1994); Paul Feyerabend, US-Eastern Philosopher (1924-1994).
Name days: Maria Lourdes, Adolf, Kunigunde, Anselm, Euphrosine, Desiderius, Theodora, Eleonora, Theodor.
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