2023-05-16 22:01:15
Under Wednesday, May 17, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I flees with the court from Vienna to Innsbruck (until August 12).
1918: In Albania, Italian and French troops attack the Austro-Hungarian mountain positions between the Osum and Devoli rivers.
1933: The German painters Otto Dix and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff declare their withdrawal from the Academy of Arts.
1943: Immediately following the premiere in Rome, Luchino Visconti’s first feature film “Ossessione” regarding the dreary everyday life of ordinary people was officially banned.
1943: After the bombing of the dams of the Möhne and Edertalsperre by the British Air Force, the energy supply of the Ruhr area is seriously endangered. Among the German civilian population high losses are to be lamented.
1948: The US completes a test series of nuclear explosions at Eniwetok Atoll (Marshall Islands).
1958: A state of emergency is imposed on France because of the coup in Algeria.
1968: The first European satellite, ESRO-1, reaches orbit.
1973: A US Senate investigative committee begins investigating the Watergate affair. The question of President Richard Nixon’s complicity is raised for the first time.
1978: The Italian Parliament adopts a law on anti-terrorist measures with a large majority.
1983: An extraordinary federal party conference of the SPÖ approves the coalition agreement with the Freedom Party. The SPÖ chairman and outgoing Chancellor Kreisky suggests that Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger entrust Fred Sinowatz with the formation of a government.
1983: Israel is forcing a separate agreement on Lebanon, which the Lebanese parliament refuses to ratify.
1998: Ex-General Alexander Lebed is elected governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region in central Siberia.
2003: In a referendum, the Slovaks (with a participation of 52.15 percent) voted with 92.5 percent for their country’s accession to the European Union.
birthdays: Annie Rosar, East Actress (1888-1963); Hans Bobek, Austria geographer (1903-1990); Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (1918-2005); Paolo Bortoluzzi, Italian dance star/choreographer (1938-1993); Donna Summer, US singer (1948-2012); Kathrin Zechner, Austria media manager and lawyer; 2012-2021 TV Director of the ORF (1963).
days of death: Johann Ignaz Felbiger, German catholic. theologian, educator and school reformer; Augustinian canon; In 1774 he wrote the “General School Regulations for the “normal, secondary and trivial schools” (1724-1788) for Maria Theresa; Charles Maurice Duke of Talleyrand, French statesman (1754-1838); Armin Wegner, German writer (1886 -1978); Jorge Videla, general and dictator 1976-1981 (1925-2013); Nicole Fontaine, French politician (1942-2018).
name days: Walter, Bruno, Jodokus, Paschal, Torpetus, Patrich, Dietmar, Restituta, Framhild.
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