May 11, 2003: The “Saliera”, a world-famous small sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini from the 16th century, is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

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868: The Chinese Wang Chieh prints the Diamond Sutra, which is considered the oldest surviving book in the world, on wooden sticks. It was found in Turkestan in 1900.
1573: After the death of the last Jagiellonian king, Sigismund II August, Poland became an elective monarchy for two hundred years. French Prince Henry of Valois is elected King (later King of France as Henry III).
1823: At the beginning of a two-year Burma campaign, British troops conquer the port city of Rangoon, which they have to evacuate once more in 1824.
1873: The high point of the Kulturkampf between the Prussian government and the Catholic clergy: Bismarck subordinates the church to state sovereignty. With the so-called “May Laws”, the state reserves, among other things, the right to object to the hiring of clergy.
1878: Twenty-year-old casual worker Max Hödel committed an assassination attempt on the German Emperor Wilhelm I in Berlin; the shots missed their target.
1898: The first section of the Wiener Stadtbahn from Heiligenstadt to Penzing is opened to traffic.
1918: Heavy infantry fighting on the Somme.
1928: The General Electric station WGY in Schenectady/New York will begin broadcasting a television program three times a week.
1938: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is the first to publicly say that a “border revision” to settle the Sudeten German question might create a “smaller but healthier Czechoslovakia”.
1938: Pope Pius XI publishes a decree once morest racial doctrine and lists seven basic errors of racial doctrine, including that religion is subject to race and that the lowest is further removed from the highest race than the highest animal species. During Adolf Hitler’s visit to Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini (May 3-9), he demonstratively left Rome.
1943: US troops land on the Aleutian island of Attu, thereby recapturing US territory occupied by the Japanese invaders for the first time in World War II.
1968: Peter Handke’s speaking play “Kaspar” premieres in the Frankfurt Theater am Turm and in the Municipal Theater in Düsseldorf.
1983: The heads of the SPÖ and FPÖ agree in principle on the formation of a coalition government.
1988: As the successor to Fred Sinowatz, whom he replaced at the head of government in 1986, Chancellor Franz Vranitzky was elected SPÖ chairman at an extraordinary federal party conference in Vienna with 93.6 percent of the delegate votes. The functions of the head of government and the party chairman are once once more in one hand.
1988: Postal reform in the Federal Republic of Germany: The Deutsche Bundespost loses its monopoly and is divided into three independent areas; privatizations become possible in the telecommunications system.
1993: India conducts three underground nuclear weapons tests.
2003: The “Saliera”, a world-famous small sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini from the 16th century, is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

birthdays: Alois Ritter Auer von Welsbach, east. printer and inventor; 1841-1864 Director of the Viennese Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office; invented the automatic high-speed press and automatic copperplate press (1813-1896); Irving Berlin (originally Israel Baline), US-Americ. Schlager, film and musical composer (1888-1989); Sven Nilsson, Swedish singer (bass) (1898-1970); Robert Jungk, Austria Futurist (1913-1994); Ilse Buck, Austria radio presenter, author, physical education, sports and gymnastics teacher; Pioneer of the health and fitness movement in Austria (1923-2012); Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (1928-1997); Dieter Böhmdorfer, Austria Jurist; Minister of Justice 2000-2004 (1943); Günter Timischl, Austria. composer, guitarist and singer; founding member of STS (1948); Thomas Middelhoff, German business manager (1953); Natasha Richardson, British actress (1963-2009); Laetitia Casta, French model (1978); Severin Freund, former German ski jumper (1988).
days of death: Herbert Spencer Gasser, US pharmacologist; Nobel Prize 1944 (1888-1963); Grigory Kozinzew, Russian film director (1905-1973); Kim Philby, British Soviet agent (1912-1988); Noel Redding, British guitarist and bassist (including Jimi Hendrix Experience) (1945-2003); Eugen Jesser, President and Director of the Vienna Boys’ Choir (1946-2008).
name days: Gangolf, Joachim, Walter, Mamertus, Walbert, Bertilie, Adalbert, Dominique, Jochen, Robert, Jakob.

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