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1868: Three ecclesiastical laws sanctioned by Emperor Franz Joseph significantly restrict the 1855 Concordat with the Holy See.
1908: The Teatro de Colón opera house opens in Buenos Aires with the opera “Aida” by Giuseppe Verdi.
1913: Colonel Alfred Redl, kuk chief of staff of the 8th corps in Prague, previously deputy chief of the records office (intelligence service) in the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, took his own life in the Hotel Klomser in Vienna. The gay officer was exposed as a spy in the service of Russia and forced to commit suicide.
1923: Transjordan is separated from Palestine and becomes its own British mandate under the Hashemite prince Emir Abdullah.
1943: German General Adolf Galland tests the Me 262, the world’s first jet fighter, designed by Willy Messerschmitt.
1963: In the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, 30 African countries found the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The first chairman is Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I.
1973: The United States launches its first space station, Skylab, into Earth orbit.
1993: In Guatemala, President Jorge Serrano dissolves parliament and suspends basic civil rights. The coup d’état fails within a few days.
1993: The UN Security Council decides to set up an international special criminal court to punish war crimes in former Yugoslavia.
2003: Table tennis player Werner Schlager becomes world champion following beating South Korean Joo Se-hyuk 4:2 in the final, making him the first Austrian table tennis individual world champion since 1937.
2003: In Armenia, the opposition refuses to recognize the ruling Republican Party’s victory in parliamentary elections.
2003: The Israeli government accepts the international peace roadmap, which envisages an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by 2005, with a wafer-thin majority, with reservations.
birthdays: Ralph Waldo Emerson, US writer (1803-1882); Jacob Burckhardt, Switzerland. cultural historian (1818-1897); Klaus Meine, German singer “Scorpions” (1948); Mike Myers, Canada. Actor (1963).
days of death: Marie-Madeleine, Countess de La Fayette, French writer (1634-1693); Alfred Redl, Austria officer and Russian spy (1864-1913); Idris I el-Senussi, King of Libya (1890-1983); Gertrud Karg-Bebenburg, Austria writer (1944-1998); Antonio Ferrua, Italian archaeologist (1901-2003).
name days: Gregor, Magdalena, Beda, Urban, Herta, Hildebrand, Gilbert, Heinrich, Heribert, Eilhard, Valentina, Sophia.
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