2023-05-05 22:14:58
Under Saturday, May 6, the book of history records, among other things:
1733: The first international boxing match takes place in London: Bob Whittaker (England) beats Tito Alberto di Carini (Italy).
1918: Turkish troops achieve limited success against British at Jordan.
1928: Austria defeated Yugoslavia 3-0 in the international football match in Vienna.
1928: The Swiss canton of Uri abolishes the so-called Landsgemeinde and replaces it with ballot box voting.
1933: At their party conference, the Austrian Christian Social Party elects former Chancellor Carl Vaugoin as party leader.
1953: US Secretary of State Dulles formulates his “domino theory” of a political chain reaction if Indochina becomes communist. It becomes the ideological basis in the Cold War against the Soviet Union and is later used by the US to justify its military intervention in Vietnam.
1963: Switzerland becomes the 17th member of the Council of Europe.
1968: Spain closes its land border with Gibraltar.
1978: The UN Security Council condemns the attacks on Angola by South African troops and calls for an immediate withdrawal.
1983: The German Ministry of the Interior confirms that the alleged Hitler diaries published by the magazine “Stern” are forgeries.
1993: The UN Security Council declares the Bosnian cities of Sarajevo, Žepa, Tuzla, Goražde and Bihać, as well as Srebrenica, to be “security zones”.
2003: The Austrian Trade Union Confederation is mobilizing against the pension reform plans. Public life is partially paralyzed.
2013: Longtime Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti dies in Rome at the age of 94. The Christian Democratic politician has been a member of all parliaments since 1945, and he has been head of government a total of seven times. Alleged mafia connections and even murder orders were attributed to him, but could never be proven.
2013: Three young women are rescued from a home in Cleveland. They were considered missing for around ten years. One of the victims, Amanda Berry, who disappeared in 2003, escapes her tormentor Ariel Castro. Police rescue Berry’s six-year-old daughter, whose father is the woman’s abuser, and two other victims who disappeared in 2002-04. One of the women was pregnant four times: the perpetrator ended at least one pregnancy by withholding food and kicking in the stomach. Ariel Castro agrees to life imprisonment in a deal with the judiciary. At the beginning of September he committed suicide in his cell.
birthdays: Henry II, Roman-German Emperor (973-1024); Johannes Andreas Stein, German piano and organ builder (1728-1792); Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (1758-1794); Stewart Granger, British-US actor (1913-1993); Andreas Baader, German terrorist (1943-1977); Caspar Einem, Austria. ex-politician (1948-2021); Tony Blair, British politician, ex-Prime Minister (1953); Dani Alves, Brazil. Soccer Player (1983).
days of death: Willi Grohmann, German art historian (1887-1983); Sir Ernest MacMillan, Canada. conductor (1893-1973); Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician (1919-2013); Sonja Oster-Grossmann, Austria Sculptor (1926-2003).
name days: Antonia, Valerian, Gritto, Markward, Dietrich, Johannes, Gundula, Domitian, Britto, Elisabeth, Benedikta.
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