2024-03-04 23:18:25
On Tuesday, March 5th, the book of history records, among other things:
1684: Through the mediation of Pope Innocent XI. The Holy Roman Empire, Poland and Venice (later also Russia) form a “Holy League” once morest the Ottomans.
1889: After a series of scandals, the first Serbian king Milan Obrenović abdicates in favor of his minor son Alexander and temporarily leaves the country under the name “Count of Takovo”.
1894: Beginning of the demolition of the Vienna Line Wall. The Belt Road is partly being built in its place.
1904: The French Court of Cassation decides to reopen the military court proceedings once morest Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus, who was found guilty of treason on behalf of Germany in 1894. He was fully rehabilitated in 1906 and promoted to major.
1919: In Vienna, the Constituent National Assembly elects the Social Democrat Karl Seitz as its president and thus as the provisional head of state of the republic.
1949: In Budapest, a Hungarian people’s court sentenced 13 co-defendants of Cardinal Primate József Mindszenty to long prison sentences for alleged foreign exchange offenses.
1959: In a speech in Leipzig, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev defused his November 1958 Berlin ultimatum to the Western powers.
1969: The Social Democratic Justice Minister Gustav Heinemann is elected as the third Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly with the support of the FDP. He replaces the Christian Democrat Heinrich Lübke, who had been in office since 1959. Heinemann’s election created the basis for the formation of the social-liberal coalition in Bonn under SPD leader Willy Brandt in the fall of 1969.
1974: After the Conservatives’ election defeat, Labor leader Harold Wilson, who was prime minister from 1964 to 1970, formed a new British government.
1979: The US space probe “Voyager-1” transmits the first close-up images of Jupiter and Jupiter’s moons to Earth.
1979: Iran resumes oil exports under the new Islamic revolutionary regime.
1984: The Lebanese parliament annulled the separate May 17, 1983 peace agreement imposed by Israel following its 1982 invasion.
1989: The play “Oblomov” by Franz Xaver Kroetz premieres in Munich’s Prinzregententheater.
1994: In Tel Aviv, over 30,000 Israelis demonstrate for a freeze on settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
2004: Mikhail Fradkov becomes Russian Prime Minister.
Birthdays: William Henry Baron Beveridge, British economic politician and social reformer (1879-1963); Karl Rahner, German theologian (1904-1984); Ossip Flechtheim, German political scientist (1909-1998); Clemens August Andreae, Austrian economist (1929-1991); Roland Klett, German publisher (1929-2005); Werner Fasslabend, Eastern. Politician (1944); Peter Weibel, Eastern Art theorist, artist and exhibition curator (1944-2023); Matt Lucas, British-German comedian/actor (1974); Eva Mendes, US actress (1974).
Days of death: Antonio Corregio, Italian painter (around 1489/94-1534); Alfred Graf von Waldersee, Prussia. Field Marshal (1832-1904); Ernest von Koerber, Austrian statesman (1850-1919); David Buick, US automobile designer (according to other information March 6) (1854-1929); Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (1851-1929); William Powell, US actor (1892-1984); Jan Dobraczyński, Polish writer (1910-1994); Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (1913-1984); Ernst Exner, Eastern Journalist and first editor-in-chief of the ORF regional studio in Lower Austria (1934-2019).
Name days: Dietmar, Theophil, John, Joseph, Friedrich, Ruperta, Gerda, Olivia, Amadeus, Zdenko, Ingmar.
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