2023-06-27 22:59:01
Under Wednesday, June 28, the book of history records, among other things:
1838: The English Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837 following the death of her uncle Wilhelm IV at the age of eighteen, is solemnly crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey.
1848: Founding of the “first general workers’ association” in Vienna.
1918: In the Soviet Union, large-scale industry and railways are nationalized.
1928: Hermann Müller (SPD) presents his new cabinet, which will go down in the history of the Weimar Republic as the “Cabinet of Personalities” or “Holiday Cabinet”.
1928: Founding of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna; this means that the ethnographic department at the National Historical Museum, which has existed since 1876, becomes an independent institution.
1948: The Desch-Verlag in Munich delivers the novel “The Beaten” by Hans Werner Richter.
1958: AUA opens the Vienna – Rome airline.
1963: Three GDR privates break through the zone border near Bad Hersfeld with an armored car and face the West German authorities.
1963: Giselher Kleber’s opera “Figaro lets himself be divorced” premieres in Hamburg.
1978: Princess Caroline of Monaco (21) marries Parisian playboy and businessman Philippe Junot (38). The marriage ended in divorce in 1980 because of Junot’s infidelity.
1978: The National Council decides to hold a referendum on the commissioning of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Lower Austria. This takes place on November 5 and results in 50.47 percent no votes.
1988: Hans Hermann Groër is made cardinal.
1988: The Carinthian governor Leopold Wagner opens the Villach northern bypass, which closes the last gap in the Tauernautobahn. With the traffic opening of the Villach bypass, there is thus a continuous motorway connection from northern Germany to southern Italy.
1993: The British mathematician Andrew Wiles presents the verification of the 350-year-old “Fermat’s theorem” in Cambridge. According to the French scholar Pierre de Fermat, the Pythagorean theorem is not valid, at least for integers in three dimensions.
1993: The British royal family announces the separation of the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, the Queen’s second son, from his wife Sarah Ferguson. The couple have two daughters.
2018: Christine Nöstlinger, by far the most important children’s book author in Austria, is dead. She published more than 100 books and was awarded the first Astrid Lindgren Prize, the “Nobel Prize for Children’s Literature”.
birthdays: Pierre Laval, French politician (1883-1945); Weiss Ferdl, Bavaria popular actor (1883-1949); Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, writer (1888-1969); Heinz Moog, Austria actor (1908-1989); George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, British composer (1913-1998); Franz Antel, Austria film director (1913-2007); William Whitelaw, British politician (1918-1999); Harold Evans, British journalist (1928-2020); Hans Blix, Swedish international law expert, politician and diplomat; 1981-1997 IAEA Director General (1928); Claus Biederstaedt, German actor and director (1928-2020); Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist; Nobel Prize 1985 (1943); Margit Fischer, former First Lady of Austria (1943); Kathleen Doyle “Kathy” Bates, US actress and director (1948); Elisabeth Kulman, Austria Mezzo-soprano (1973).
days of death: Theodora, Byzantine Empress (c.500-548); Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia. General (1755-1813); Karl Kahane, Austria industrialist (1920-1993); Christine Nöstlinger, East. Writer (1936-2018).
name days: Ireneus, Diethilde, Joshua, Ekkehard, Leo, Josef, Dietlinde, Heimo, Senta, Serenus.
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