2023-06-23 22:41:48
Under Saturday, June 24, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: The first republican constitution for France is adopted.
1848: In the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, the President of the German National Assembly, Heinrich von Gagern, advocates the establishment of a provisional central authority under a regent. He proposes the Austrian Archduke Johann for this office – “not because, but despite the fact that he is a prince”.
1888: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical “Saepe nos” in which he addresses the bishops of Ireland.
1893: Fridtjof Nansen sets out from Oslo via Vardö on his second expedition to the North Pole.
1918: During house searches in several Viennese hotels, the police seized illegal flour stores with a total quantity of more than ten thousand kilograms.
1928: Italian General Umberto Nobile, who crashed his airship near the North Pole on May 24, is found and recovered by a Swedish search plane.
1933: National Socialist bomb attacks on the trams in Vienna and on the railways near Mürzzuschlag.
1948: Beginning of the Berlin blockade (until May 12, 1949): The Soviet military administration interrupts passenger and goods traffic between West Berlin and the western zones due to “technical difficulties” and stops all electricity and coal deliveries to the western sectors due to “lack of coal”. The “Airlift” campaign is being prepared.
1948: Spain’s dictator General Franco accuses the Western powers of exerting pressure on his regime under “Masonic influence”. At the same time, he rules out elections so as not to “open a door for communism to wedge its foot in.”
1968: A train accident near Sion in Switzerland kills twelve and injures more than 100.
1978: Britain’s Princess Margaret Rose is divorced from her husband Lord Snowdon.
1978: The President of the Republic of Yemen, Ahmed Hussein al-Ghashmi, falls victim to a bomb attack.
1983: The International Democratic Union is founded in London, the conservative counterpart of the Socialist International. ÖVP chairman Alois Mock becomes chairman.
1983: Syria expels PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
1993: In the Noricum trial, the former SPÖ top politicians Fred Sinowatz, Leopold Gratz and Karl Blecha are acquitted of the main allegations of abuse of office and violation of neutrality. However, Blecha was sentenced to a conditional prison sentence of nine months for falsifying or suppressing parts of the files.
2013: After years of trial, Italy’s ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in prison in the so-called Ruby trial for having sex with a minor and for abuse of power. The verdict is not final, but it has shaken the already unstable political landscape, since Berlusconi immediately mobilized against the alleged “political justice system” and his party’s withdrawal from the governing coalition would plunge the country into a new crisis.
birthdays: Gustav von Schmoller, German national economist (1838-1917); Viktor Franz Hess, Austria. physicist (1883-1964); Heinrich Hollreiser, German conductor (1913-2006); Marc Riboud, French photographer (1923-2016); Wolfgang Altenburg, German Bundeswehr General (1928-2023); Ruth Weiss, US-Aust. Author, performance artist, playwright, filmmaker and actress (1928-2020); Juan Roman Riquelme, arg. Ex-soccer player (1978).
days of death: Emilio Colombo, Italian politician (DC) (1920-2013); Pinkas Braun, Switzerland. Actor and director (1923-2008).
name days: John the Baptist, Rumold, Reingard, Irimbert, Hannes, Jens, Sepp, Iwan, Jan, Wilhelm.
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