2023-05-28 22:50:36
Under Monday, May 29, the book of history records, among other things:
1453: Under Sultan Mehmed II “Fatih” (the Conqueror), the Turks take Constantinople. The last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI. Dragases from the Palaeologue Dynasty, disappears without a trace during the fighting.
1848: A provisional Bohemian government is formed in Prague under Count Thun-Hohenstein.
1913: Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Le Sacre du Printemps” premieres in Paris.
1913: The Garmisch-Reutte line completes the Ausserfernbahn, a cross-border railway line between Bavaria and Tyrol.
1918: German troops capture the French city of Soissons.
1918: An initially unknown epidemic breaks out in Madrid; more than 100,000 Spaniards contract “Malta fever”.
1933: Serious street battles break out in Innsbruck between members of the Heimwehr and National Socialist students. The government then orders the use of the army.
1933: Fritz Lang’s film “Siegfried’s Death” with Paul Richter in the title role has its premiere in Berlin.
1948: The Allied Council approves the law passed by the National Council on the early termination of the consequences of atonement for former National Socialists with lesser burdens. The obligation to register remains in place for the approximately 500,000 amnesties.
1953: New Zealander Edmund P. Hillary and Sherpa Tensing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 meters).
1958: French President René Coty appoints General Charles de Gaulle as Prime Minister following the resignation of Christian Democrat Pierre Pflimlin.
1968: Beginning of the Newag trial once morest the Lower Austrian ÖVP politician Viktor Müllner for abuse of official power and embezzlement. (Sentenced to four years in prison on July 12).
1973: Princess Anne, daughter of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, is engaged to officer Mark Phillips.
1973: Erskine Childers is elected President of Ireland to succeed Éamon de Valera.
1988: The fourth summit meeting between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet party leader Mikhail Gorbachev begins in Moscow. According to Gorbachev, this summit heralds the “epoch of nuclear disarmament”.
1988: The Benedictine monk Hans Hermann Groër is appointed Archbishop of Vienna to succeed Cardinal Franz König.
1993: Two women and three girls are killed in an arson attack on a house inhabited by Turks in Solingen, Germany. The city is the scene of serious unrest in the following days.
1993: For the first time, the Vienna “Life Ball”, organized by Gery Keszler, takes place in the town hall. The ball serves to provide financial support to Austrian AIDS aid organizations.
2003: British Prime Minister Tony Blair travels to Iraq. At the same time, he is confronted with the first allegations that he deliberately dramatized secret service reports before the start of the war.
birthdays: Bob Hope, US comedian (1903-2003); Hans Weigel, Austria man of letters and critic (1908-1991); Helmuth Rilling, German conductor/musician (1933); Annette Bening, US actress (1958); Sébastien Grosjean, French ex-tennis player (1978).
days of death: Franz Pfeiffer, Switzerland. Germanist (1815-1868); Adolf Oberländer, German draftsman (1845-1923); Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet; Nobel Prize 1956 (1881-1958); Barry Goldwater, US politician (1909-1998); Konstantin Mitsotakis, Greek politician (1918-2018); Max Schmid, Swiss writer (1926-1993); Franca Rame, Italian actress and politician (1929-2013).
name days: Irmentraut, Maximin, Bona, Gerold, Walram, Irmtrud, Erwin, Alexander, Joachim.
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