May 7, 1998: The automobile groups Daimler-Benz and Chrysler announce their merger

2023-05-06 22:20:32

Under Sunday, May 7, the book of history records, among other things:

973: Emperor Otto I the Great dies in Saxony at the age of 60.
1848: The first issue of the political-satirical weekly “Kladderadatsch” is published in Berlin.
1898: The large jubilee exhibition for the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph’s accession to the throne (December 2nd) opens in Vienna’s Prater.
1898: A law passed by the German Reichstag excludes social democrats from the teaching post.
1918: “Peace of Bucharest” between Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey on the one hand and Romania on the other. Romania has been practically occupied by the Central Powers since 1916.
1923: In Le Mans, the first 24-hour race held there ended with victory for Lagache/Léonard in a Chenard-Walcker.
1933: The painter Max Liebermann announces his resignation from the Prussian Academy of Arts. Numerous colleagues follow his example.
1943: Allied troops take Tunis and Bizerta, the German occupiers have to retreat to the Cap Bon peninsula.
1948: At the first European Congress in The Hague, British ex-Prime Minister Winston Churchill called on Europeans to lift customs barriers. Europe must endeavor to establish itself as a third force alongside the USA and the USSR.
1953: Cole Porter’s musical “Can Can” premieres on Broadway in New York.
1978: Mass demonstrations once morest the Shah’s regime took place in Tehran.
1983: A fire in the “Washington” hotel in Istanbul killed 35 people, including twelve Austrians (from Wels, Upper Austria).
1988: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera “Montag aus Licht” premieres at La Scala in Milan.
1993: The UN Security Council decides to set up so-called “protection zones” for the Muslim population in Bosnia.
1998: The automobile groups Daimler-Benz and Chrysler announce their merger.
2003: Germany, which along with France vehemently opposed the US-led invasion, rules out participating in a post-war multinational peacekeeping force in Iraq.
2013: Change of direction by Environment Minister Niki Berlakovich (ÖVP) at the “Bee Summit”: The use of neonicotinoids should be banned in Austria. These pesticides are suspected of being partly responsible for bee deaths.
2018: NEOS founder Matthias Strolz surprisingly announces his retirement from politics. The reason he gives is the right time for the step.

birthdays: Johannes Brahms, German composer (1833-1897); Stanisław Przybyzweski, Polish writer (1868-1927); Max Grundig, German electronics entrepreneur (1908-1989); Norman (Günter) Dyhrenfurth, Swiss-US film producer, director, cameraman and alpinist (1918-2017); Anne Baxter, US actress (1923-1985); Axel Corti, Austria Director (1933-1993).
days of death: Otto I, Roman-German Emperor (912-973); Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist (1722-1793); Tódor Kármán, Hungarian-US physicist and aeronautical engineer (aerodynamics) (1881-1963); Ray Harryhausen, US animation pioneer (1920-2013); Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-US physicist; Nobel Prize 1979 (1924-1998); Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director (1931-2018); Peter Rauhofer, Austria Musicians (1965-2013).
name days: Gisela, Notker, Gottfried, Helga, Stanislaus, Benedikt, Silke, Olga, Gernot, Gisela, Rosa.

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