2023-06-22 22:44:48
Under Friday, June 23, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: Beginning of the Paris workers’ uprising, which is crushed by General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac in four days (June battle).
1918: After the failure of his attempts to reconcile the Czechs with the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Prime Minister Ernst Ritter von Seidler (in office since June 1917) resigns with his cabinet. Emperor Karl I only accepts the resignation on July 22 and appoints Baron Max Hussarek as his successor.
1918: Snow is falling in Buenos Aires and other places in Argentina for the first time in living memory.
1948: In a note to the Allied Council, the federal government denounced the “long chain of attacks” by the occupying powers once morest Austrian citizens; the arrest of the top official in the Interior Ministry, Anton Marek, by Soviet organs contradicted the spirit and the letter of the control agreement.
1948: Currency reform in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
1948: The music company CBS introduces the long-playing record (playing time of up to one hour).
1963: State visit by US President John F. Kennedy to Germany and Berlin. There he spoke the historic words on June 26 in front of the Schöneberg town hall: “I am a Berliner.”
1983: During his second trip to Poland, Pope John Paul II met the labor leader Lech Wałęsa.
1988: Pope John Paul II arrives in Vienna-Schwechat for his second visit to Austria.
2003: The Greek Coast Guard stops a Comorian-flagged freighter with 680 tons of explosives on board in the Ionian Sea.
2013: The American Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to balance across a deep gorge in the Grand Canyon. The tightrope artist sets a new record. He covers the 425 meter long distance at a dizzying height in just under 23 minutes. The 34-year-old is not secured.
2018: A Thai youth soccer team is trapped in a cave. The boys, aged 11 to 17, and their 25-year-old trainer are surprised by masses of water on a trip to the far north of Thailand. There is no sign of life for more than a week, then everyone is found exhausted but unharmed. Only following 17 days are the last of them released in the course of a dramatic rescue operation. A diver dies in the relief operation.
birthdays: Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Vico, Italian philosopher (1668-1744); Lili Schönemann, fiancé of Goethe (1758-1817); Joséphine, Empress of France; wife of Napoleon (1763-1814); Louis Seigner, French actor (1903-1991); Klaus von Dohnanyi, German politician and business manager; SPD; 1981-1988 Mayor of Hamburg (1928); Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist (1933); James Levine, US conductor and pianist (1943-2021).
days of death: Max Kassowitz, Austria medics; Pediatrician (1842-1913); Viktor Fadrus, Austria educator (1884-1968); Maureen O’Sullivan, US actress (1911-1998); Judith Holzmeister, Austria actress (1920-2008); Richard Matheson, US science fiction writer (1926-2013); Ida Krottendorf, East Actress (1927-1998); Kurt Kren, Austria filmmaker (1929-1998); Bobby Bland, US blues musician (1930-2013); Stefan Matousch, Austria Actor (1948-2018).
name days: Edeltraud, Basilius, Josef, Marion, Johannes.
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