2024-01-12 23:07:12
On Saturday, January 13th, the book of history records, among other things:
1559: Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of Henry VIII from his second marriage to Anne Boleyn, who was executed in 1536, is crowned after the death of her half-sister Maria Tudor.
1834: Konradin Kreutzer’s opera “The Night Camp of Granada” premieres at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt.
1904: The premiere of Béla Bartók’s symphonic poem “Kossuth” takes place in Budapest.
1929: After nationwide uprisings and protests by the Islamic clergy against his modernization program, King Amanullah of Afghanistan renounces the throne and goes into exile in Germany. The monarch had tried to orientate himself on the reforms of Atatürk and Shah Reza Pahlevi in Turkey and Persia, respectively.
1939: Hungary, under the government of Reich Administrator Admiral Miklós Horthy, declares its willingness to join the “Anti-Comintern Pact” (concluded between Germany, Japan and Italy).
1943: With his decree on the “deployment of men and women for the tasks of defending the Reich”, Hitler initiated the “total mobilization of the German people”.
1964: At the Arab summit conference in Cairo, the founding of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was announced by bringing together all resistance groups. The first PLO chairman is Ahmed Shukeiri.
1964: The governing mayor of West Berlin, Willy Brandt, is nominated by the federal executive board of the German Social Democrats to succeed the late party leader and opposition leader Erich Ollenhauer.
1979: In exile in France, the Iranian Shiite leader Ayatollah Khomeini announces the formation of a Revolutionary Council that will replace the last government installed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi upon his return home.
1984: Government day in Steyr ends with the 5-point program to promote the Steyr region.
1984: Short-time work begins for 1,300 employees at the VOEST plant in Zeltweg.
1984: “Hoe attacker” Schak, who attacked and seriously injured an eleven-year-old girl in Vienna, is sentenced to life in prison.
2009: The Chechen refugee Umar Israilov is shot dead on the street in Vienna’s 21st district, Floridsdorf. According to the victim’s family, the background to the crime is a complaint to the Russian public prosecutor’s office and a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Russia for torture and crimes under the command of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
Birthdays: Paul Feyerabend, Eastern-US philosopher (1924-1994); Roland Petit, French dancer (1924-2011); Walter Flöttl, Eastern Banker (BAWAG) (1924-2009); Wolfgang Kraus, Eastern Writer/publicist (1924-1998).
Days of death: Karl Lieffen, German actor (1926-1999); Paola Loew, eastern, castle actress (1934-1999).
Name days: Hilarius, Jutta, Adolph, Veronica, Gottfried, Bernus, Hilmar, Malachi, Melanie, Agritius.
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