November 19, 2008: The coffin of billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick is stolen from the mausoleum in Velden

2023-11-18 23:25:35

On Sunday, November 19th, the book of history records, among other things:

1493: Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, the smallest island in the Greater Antilles, which he calls “San Juan Bautista.” (Spanish colonization begins in 1508).
1608: Archduke Matthias is crowned King of Hungary as Matthias II.
1808: In Prussia, the principle of local self-government was introduced through a reform law.
1863: US President Abraham Lincoln, whose election triggered the Civil War, announced the liberal principles of his reconciliation policy (“Government of the people by the people for the people”) in a programmatic speech (“Gettysburg Address”) on the battlefield of Gettysburg a rapid reintegration of the defeated southern states. The speech is generally considered a rhetorical masterpiece and is part of the historical and cultural heritage of the USA.
1893: The publisher of the newspaper “New York World” is including a four-page color supplement with the paper for the first time.
1918: Under the command of Marshal Philippe Pétain, French troops enter Lorraine in the city of Metz.
1923: Béla Bartóks’ “Tanzsuite” and Zoltán Kodálys’ “Psalmus Hungaricus” were premiered in Budapest.
1948: The Czechoslovak President and Communist Party leader Klement Gottwald declares that “any danger of a capitalist restoration from within has been eliminated.”
1948: South Africa unilaterally declares that, as a mandated power, it feels neither legally nor morally obliged to place the former German colony of South West Africa (today’s Namibia) under a UN trust system.
1948: In Cologne the film “Wiener Melodien” with Elfi Mayerhofer, Johannes Heesters and Theo Lingen, in Munich and Cologne the film “The Lost Face” with Marianne Hoppe and Gustav Fröhlich and in Munich “Der Hofrat Geiger” with Paul Hörbiger, Hans Moser and Maria Andergast premiered.
1953: A 3,000 kilometer long car race across Mexico (“Carrera-Panamericana”) starts in Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
1963: Austrian-Yugoslavian negotiations begin in Laibach regarding defining the border.
1968: In Mali, President Modibo Keita, who led the West African republic to independence in 1960, is overthrown by the army. A military junta under Moussa Traoré takes power.
1973: Argentina and Uruguay end a decades-long border dispute.
1988: Riots break out in Kosovo following major Albanian and Serbian rallies.
1993: Military coup in Nigeria led by General Sani Abacha, who thereby prevented the democratically elected President Moshood Abiola from taking office and banned all political parties.
1993: At a party conference of the German Social Democrats, Rudolf Scharping is confirmed as SPD leader.
2003: Michael Jackson is once once more being targeted by the US Attorney’s Office on suspicion of child abuse. 70 police officers search his property in California. He is accused of attempted kidnapping and lewd acts on a minor suffering from cancer. He was acquitted on June 13, 2005.
2008: A “kissing ban” in a secondary school in the Wels-Land district of Upper Austria is causing a stir. According to the school management, the trigger is a “ritual” of students kissing each other deeply during greetings and farewells before and following almost every lesson. Students hold protests.
2008: In Velden, the coffin of billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick is stolen from the mausoleum. The remains were probably transported away in a truck.
2013: A serious case of child sexual abuse has become known in Burgenland: a twelve-year-old had given birth to a child in the Güssing district a week earlier. The baby’s father is said to be the girl’s stepfather. He has already been convicted of abusing a minor. The mother is also being investigated.

Birthdays: Carl Ludwig Fernow, German art historian (1753-1808); Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (1833-1911); Richard Avenarius, Black philosopher (1843-1896); Gabriel Hanotaux, French politician (1853-1944); José Raúl Capablanca, cub. actor (1888-1942); Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer (1918-2000); Larry King, (aka Lawrence Harvey Zeiger) US broadcaster, columnist and talk show host (1933-2021); Robert Edward (“Ted”) Turner (III), US media entrepreneur (1938); Mimi Jakobsen, Danish politician (1948); Adam Driver, US actor (1983).
Days of death: Franz Schubert, East. composer (1797-1828); Sir William Siemens, British inventor (1823-1883); Ferdinand Trendelenburg, German physicist (1896-1973); Adolf Heuser, German boxer (1907-1988); Alfred Bernegger, Black painter (1912-1978); Charlotte Zolotow, US children’s author (1915-2013); Frederick Sanger, British biochemist; Nobel Prize 1958 and 1980 (1918-2013); Alan Jay Pakula, US director (1928-1998); Hugo Michael Sekyra, Austrian Manager (1941-1998); Christina Onassis (married Roussel), Greek shipowner (1950-1988).
Name days: Elisabeth, Mechthild, Elsa, Bettina, Lisbeth, Lisa, Jakob, David, Severin.

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