2023-06-18 22:19:06
Under Monday, June 19, the book of history records, among other things:
1903: In the Bernese Alps, the “Eigerwand” mountain station is opened at an altitude of 2,867 meters.
1903: The first “Lappland Express” leaves Stockholm. His destination is Narvik, the northernmost railway station on earth.
1918: Austro-Hungarian troops reach the Fassetta Canal and pierce several Italian lines.
1933: A Nazi bomb attack on a gymnastics group in Krems kills one and injures 29.
1933: The NSDAP in Austria is banned.
1933: A European broadcasting contract governing the allocation of frequencies is concluded in Lucerne.
1943: The Italian government orders the general compulsory labor service.
1948: The Austrian federal government is protesting once morest the arrest of Anton Marek, chief inspector of the interior ministry, by the Soviet occupation authorities, who accused the official of abusing his official position.
1948: Reorganization of the monetary system in the western occupation zones of Germany: the Reichsmark loses its validity and is replaced by the Deutsche Mark. Two days later, the military administration in the Soviet zone also ordered a currency reform.
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were sentenced to death on charges of nuclear espionage for the Soviet Union, are executed in the USA.
1963: Former Swedish Air Force Colonel Wennerstrom is arrested and confesses to having betrayed all of his homeland’s military secrets to the Soviet Union for 15 years.
1973: Germany and CSSR initial a treaty establishing diplomatic relations, the Munich Agreement of 1938 on the separation of the Sudetenland is declared invalid.
1973: Richard O’Brien’s musical “The Rocky Horror Show” premieres in London. The musical spectacle was filmed in 1975 as the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”.
1988: Military coup in Haiti: Army chief General Namphy overthrows President Manigat and takes power. More than 200 people are killed in riots in the capital Port-au-Prince.
1993: A bomb attack by Islamic fundamentalist extremists kills seven people in Cairo.
2003: The Czech government describes the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans following the Second World War as “unacceptable from today’s perspective”. The declaration is embedded in a statement on the referendum on EU accession.
2008: A six-month ceasefire between Israel and the radical Islamist group Hamas comes into effect in the Middle East. The agreement came regarding through Egyptian mediation. However, shortly before it came into force, numerous rockets were fired at Israel, and Israel in turn flew airstrikes in retaliation.
2008: On 1 January 2009, Slovakia can introduce the common currency, the euro: the EU heads of state and government give the go-ahead and declare Slovakia “ready for the euro”. The euro zone will thus grow to 16 members.
2013: Bankruptcy is opened for the construction giant Alpine. The end of Alpine Bau GmbH represents the biggest bankruptcy in post-war history.
birthdays: Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician and physicist (1623-1662); Friedrich Huch, German writer (1873-1913); Otto Barić, born in Carinthia, ex-Jugosl. soccer player and soccer coach (1933-2020); Karl Moik, Austria Entertainer, TV presenter for folk music (“Musikantenstadl”) (1938-2015); Dieter Haspel, Austria Director (1943-2016); Erik (formerly Erika) Schinegger, former ski racer (1948); Roswitha Stadlober, ÖSV President since 2021, Austria. Politician, former ski racer (1963); Christof Kurzmann, Austria Jazz and improvisational musician (1963).
days of death: Angelo Gatti, Italian writer (1875-1948); Sir William G. Golding, British writer; Nobel Prize 1983 (1911-1993); Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician (1932-2013); Alfons Schilling, Swiss artist (1934-2013); James Gandolfini, US actor (1961-2013).
name days: Romuald, Juliane, Gervasius, Andreas, Adelgunde, Rado, Silverius, Harald, Elisabeth, Modest, Protasius.
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