2023-05-22 22:26:50
Under Tuesday, May 23, the book of history records, among other things:
1493: The Treaty of Senlis ended the disputes between Maximilian I and the French King Charles VIII over Burgundy.
1498: The Dominican and moral preacher Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake as a “heretic and schismatic” in Florence, where he had presided over a despotic theocratic regime.
1568: Battle of Heiligerlee: Beginning of the Dutch struggle for freedom once morest Spanish rule. Louis of Nassau defeats the army of the governor Johann von Ligne, who dies in battle.
1618: The “Prague defenestration” triggers the 30-year war.
1873: The “New Austrian Code of Criminal Procedure” is enacted. It guarantees oral and public proceedings and its principles are still valid today.
1928: The Rak-2 rocket car, powered by 24 solid-fuel rockets, briefly reaches 230 km/h on the Berlin Avus with Max Valier at the wheel.
1933: The Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg is stripped of his professorship at the Berlin Music Academy by the Nazi German authorities. He then emigrated to the USA.
1948: The western military governments agree on the simultaneous implementation of the currency reform in the western zones.
1948: At the first ÖGB federal congress, Federal President Karl Renner gives his keynote speech “From the liberal to the social state”.
1973: 60,000 teachers strike across Austria.
1973: 13 Brazilian bishops sign a document in which they sharply criticize the social, political and economic system of the South American country.
1993: In Cambodia general elections for a Constituent National Assembly are taking place under UN control. Despite the Khmer Rouge’s boycott order, turnout is very high. The new parliament will decide to restore the monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk.
2003: US President George W. Bush is threatening North Korea with “tough measures” if Pyongyang is not prepared to back down in the conflict over its nuclear program.
2003: The US occupying power in Iraq is disbanding the country’s army.
birthdays: Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (1848-1896); Leo Baeck, Jewish religious scholar (1873-1956); Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (1883-1939); Walter Reisch, Austria film director (1903-1983); John Bardeen, US physicist, Nobel Prize 1956 and 1972 (1908-1991); Erik Werba, Austria pianist (1918-1992); Rosemary Clooney, US jazz singer, aunt of George Clooney (1928-2002); Joan Collins, British actress (1933); Gabi Burgstaller, former Austrian Politician (SPÖ) (1963).
days of death: Girolamo Savonarola, Italian penitential preacher (1452-1498); Anton Ritter von Schmerling, Austria politician (1805-1893); Georges Moustaki, French-Greek. singer (1934-2013); Horst Friedrich Mayer, Austria. Journalist and “ZiB” moderator (1936-2003).
Namemstage: Renate, Wigbert, Desiderius, Arnobert, Désirée, Bartholomäus, Andreas, Simon, Krispin, Wilhelm, Johannes.
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