2023-07-07 22:53:19
Under Saturday, July 8, the book of history records, among other things:
1833: Turkey has contractually committed to Russia to close the Dardanelles to all enemies of Russia.
1848: Under pressure from the revolutionary Viennese Security Committee, Archduke Johann dismisses the cabinet of Prime Minister Franz Freiherr von Pillersdorf as deputy for his nephew, Emperor Ferdinand I, who has fled to Innsbruck.
1908: The French sculptor Thérèse Peltier is the first female passenger to take part in a flight.
1918: On the Austrian front in Albania, the Italians and French make a massive attack and break through.
1928: A German airship named “Graf Zeppelin” is christened in Friedrichshafen. Count Ferdinand Zeppelin constructed the first steerable airship in 1900.
1933: The concordat negotiated between the Hitler government and the Holy See is initialed.
1948: First flight of “Swissair” from Zurich to New York.
1948: Ex-Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commander of the Italian troops fighting with Germany until the end of the war, is imprisoned in a fortress.
1963: Regular hydrofoil services are launched between Belgium and Great Britain across the English Channel.
1978: In the 16th ballot, the 81-year-old socialist and anti-fascist resistance fighter Sandro Pertini was elected President of the Italian Parliament. He replaces the Christian Democrat Giovanni Leone, who resigned following allegations of financial irregularities.
1978: At the start of the informal Middle East talks in Vienna, a four-way talk will take place between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres, Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and the President of the Socialist International, Willy Brandt.
1988: 127 people are killed when the Bangalore-Trivandrum express train derailed on a bridge in India. The wagons crash into a lake.
1996: After a vote of confidence in the Turkish parliament, which the new Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan wins, the way is clear for the first Islamist-led government in the history of the Turkish Republic.
2003: 530 people are killed when an overloaded ferry capsizes in Bangladesh.
2003: After the world’s first separation of adult Siamese twins, the Iranian women Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who had joined at the head, die of excessive blood loss.
birthdays: Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528-1580); Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German airship designer (1838-1917); Karl Vaugoin, Austria politician (1873-1949); Carlo Zecchi, Italian conductor and pianist (1903-1984); Nelson A. Rockefeller, US politician (1908-1979); Walter F. Kerr, US Pulitzer Prize winner (1913-1996); Nina Sandt (actually Dürer), Austrian Actress (1928-2003); Walter Buschhoff, German actor (1923-2010); Marty Feldman, British comedian (1933-1982); Kevin Bacon, US film actor (1958); Jaden Smith, US actor (1998).
days of death: Pope Gregory XV (Alessandro Ludovisi) (1554-1623); Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austria Rococo painter (1708-1783); Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German portrait painter (1805-1873); Carl Boese, German film director (1887-1958); Osman da Costa Lins, Brazilian writer (1924-1978).
name days: Edgar, Eugen, Kilian, Harald, Hadrian, Amalia, Disibod, Landrada, Amalberga, Adolf, Elisabeth.
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