2024-03-16 23:03:00
On Sunday, March 17th, the book of history records, among other things:
1229: Emperor Frederick II enters Jerusalem.
1804: Premiere of Friedrich Schiller’s drama “Wilhelm Tell” at the Hoftheater in Weimar.
1804: The “British and Foreign Bible Society” is founded in London.
1849: Emperor Franz Joseph I sanctions the municipal law drawn up by Interior Minister Franz Graf Stadion.
1919: Five people are killed when communist advocates of a Soviet Republic storm the parliament in Vienna (“Maundy Thursday Putsch”). 30 demonstrators and 36 police officers are injured.
1929: The US automobile company “General Motors” acquires the majority of shares in the German Opel AG.
1934: With the signing of the “Roman Protocols” the conference of the heads of government Dollfuß, Mussolini and Gömbös ends. The three-state agreements provide for political and economic cooperation between Austria, Italy and Hungary as well as the maintenance of Austrian independence. A secret additional agreement allows Italian intervention in the event of unrest within Austria.
1939: After Hitler’s destruction of Czechoslovakia, British Prime Minister Chamberlain questioned his “appeasement” policy for the first time.
1939: A Palestine conference in London fails due to irreconcilable differences between Jewish and Arab representatives.
1949: The Geneva Motor Show opens with the presentation of the Fiat 500 C, an improved model of the legendary “Topolino”.
1964: The federal government decides to send a medical and order contingent for the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).
1969: Golda Meir is elected Prime Minister by the Israeli Parliament as the successor to the late Levi Eshkol. Former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion described the former foreign minister as the “only man in the government”.
1969: The Warsaw Pact states propose convening a European Security Conference at a summit conference in Budapest.
1974: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates lift the oil embargo against the USA; Libya and Syria do not join.
1984: The most wanted terrorist Dominic McGlinchey is caught in the Republic of Ireland and handed over to the British authorities in Northern Ireland.
1984: Premiere of the opera “Don Perlimplin loves Belisa” by Balduin Sulzer in Linz.
1989: Four people are killed and 15 others injured when a 900-year-old bell tower collapses in Pavia, northern Italy.
Birthdays: Jeanne-Marie Roland, French writer (1754-1793); Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer (1834-1900); Stephen Samuel Wise, US rabbi and leading Zionist (1874-1949); Nat King Cole, US jazz musician (1919-1965); Peter Ludwig Berger, Eastern-US sociologist (1929-2017); Giovanni Trapattoni, former Italian football player and coach (1939); Franz Fiedler, Eastern. Jurist; 1992-2004 President of the Court of Auditors (1944); Patrick Duffy, US actor (1949); Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (1969-2010).
Days of death: Heinrich Ludwig Reichenbach, German biologist (1793-1879); Pietro Chiesa, black painter (1876-1959); Alexandra Exter, Russian painter (1882-1949); Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Italian opera singer (1892-1979); Louis Kahn, US architect (1901-1974); Jean Pierre-Bloch, French journalist and politician (1905-1999); Ernest Gold, Eastern-US composer (1921-1999); Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress (1925-1994); Mareike Carriere, German actress (1954-2004).
Name days: Gertrude, Patrick, Gerda, Gertrud, Kurt, Johannes, Diemut, Konrad, Josef, Alexius.
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