2023-05-02 22:41:34
Under Wednesday, May 3, the book of history records, among other things:
1923: First non-stop flight over the Americas: A military aircraft covers 2,517 miles in 26 hours and 50 minutes.
1926: In Britain, regarding two million workers are going on general strike (until May 12) for the eight-hour miners’ day.
1928: The comedy “Siegfried” by Jean Giraudoux premieres at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
1928: The “Wardanieri Corps”, made up of unemployed people, moves south from the Vienna Wall. The destination of the emigrant community is Ethiopia.
1933: With the creation of a first “Race Office” in Dortmund, the conditions for the forced sterilization of “inferior” people are to be created in Nazi Germany.
1938: During a state visit to Rome, Hitler confirmed to Mussolini that he recognized the Brenner border.
1938: The world’s first fully welded blast furnace is blown in Bochum.
1943: The socially critical American author Upton Sinclair received the Pulitzer Prize, the most important literary award in the United States, for his work “Dragon’s Teeth” regarding National Socialism.
1948: For the first time since the end of the war, Otto Klemperer conducted the Berlin Philharmonic.
1958: Truman Capote’s short novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s is published in New York. The satire regarding New York’s chic crowd became a worldwide success.
1968: The USA and North Vietnam agree on Paris as a conference venue for preliminary peace talks.
1968: In the Latin Quarter of Paris, street battles break out between students and the police, who are moving into the Sorbonne.
1988: The strikes in Poland continue to spread. Several thousand workers occupy the Gdańsk Lenin shipyard.
1988: Israeli soldiers invade southern Lebanon. About 40 people are killed in the action.
1993: Merger of the industrial groups Veitscher-Magnesit and Radex Heraklith: One of the largest mergers that took place between two Austrian companies.
2003: The US announces the division of occupied Iraq into three military zones (each under American, British and Polish command).
2008: Cyclone Nargis swept across Myanmar with wind speeds of 215 km/h. It destroys thousands of houses and around 140,000 people die. “Nargis” is described as one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in the history of weather records.
birthdays: Emmanuel Sieyès, French revolutionary (1748-1836); Golda Meir, Israel. politician (1898-1978); Bing Crosby, US singer (1903-1977); Heinz Kohut, Austrian/US psychoanalyst (1913-1981); Valentin Deutschmann, Austria politician (1928-2010); Domenico Gnoli, Italian painter (1933-1970); Steven Weinberg, US physicist; Nobel Prize 1979 (1933-2021); James Brown, US soul singer (1933-2006); Doris Günther, former Austrian Snowboarder (1978).
days of death: Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini) (1675-1758); Johannes Driessler, German composer (1921-1998); Suzy Parker, US actress (1932-2003); Raimund Harmstorf, German actor (1940-1998); Gojko Sušak, Croatian. Politician (1945-1998).
name days: Philipp, Jakob, Viola, Juvenal, Gottfried, Alexandra, Ansfried, Thomas, Ostfried, Bela, Antonina, Emilia.
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