Under Friday, February 24, the book of history records, among other things:
1538: Secret peace of Oradea between Ferdinand I and his opponent Johann Zápolya, who unconditionally recognizes the Habsburg inheritance law in Hungary and is therefore confirmed as king.
1848: February revolution in Paris: After the abdication and flight of the “citizen king” Louis-Philippe of Orléans, the republic is proclaimed in France (Second Republic 1848-1852).
1918: After German troops invaded Estonia, independence from Russia was proclaimed.
1918: Unsuccessful Italian attack on the Austrian-held Col Caprile in the Dolomites.
1938: Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addresses the Bundestag in Vienna in response to the Reichstag speech by Nazi Party leader and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. He concludes with the words “Red-white-red until death!”.
1938: The first nylon product is manufactured at the Du Pont plant in Arlington, USA: toothbrush bristles.
1948: Israel and Egypt end their first war with a truce signed on the island of Rhodes.
1968: The citadel of Hue, the last Viet Cong bastion in the old imperial city, is stormed following several weeks of bitter fighting by South Vietnamese government troops with the help of US units.
1993: Claudio Abbado takes over the direction of the Salzburg Easter Festival from Sir Georg Solti.
2003: The commission of historians, which has been working since 1998, presents its 14,000-page final report.
2008: At the 80th Academy Awards, the award for the best non-English language film goes to the Austrian-German co-production “The Counterfeiters” by Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky. The triumph triggers a wave of congratulations, but not the hoped-for significant increase in domestic film funding.
2013: With two Oscars for Austrian artists, the international success of Austrian films continues. At the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Christoph Waltz was awarded best supporting actor for the second time (this time for Quentin Tarantino’s western “Django Unchained”) and Michael Haneke’s “Amour” received the foreign Oscar.
birthdays: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (1463-1494); Count Eduard Taaffe, Austria statesman (1833-1895); Gustinus Ambrosi, Eastern sculptor/poet (1893-1975); Heinrich Stretcher, Austria. composer (1893-1981); Alois Podhajsky, Austria Director of the Spanish Riding School (1898-1973); Franz Burda, German publisher (1903-1986); Philip Hampson Knight, US entrepreneur (1938).
days of death: Wilhelm Kress, Austria Piano maker, aviation pioneer and designer (1836-1913); Memphis Slim, US jazz pianist (1915-1988); Erich Padalewski, East. actor (1930-2018); Bobby Moore, British football idol (1941-1993); Bernard Loiseau, French master chef (1951-2003).
name days: Matthias, Edelbert, Ida, Modestus, Sergius, Marcus, Blasius, Irmgard.
