2023-11-25 23:30:04
On Sunday, November 26th, the book of history records, among other things:
1903: Negotiations between Italy and Austria-Hungary on a new trade agreement begin in Rome.
1918: The National Assembly of Montenegro proclaims the loss of the throne of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty and the unification of the country with the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS) under the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty.
1938: Poland and the Soviet Union renew their non-aggression pact of July 1932.
1943: The first Cairo conference, at which US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek discussed the post-war order in Asia, ended with the common demand for an unconditional surrender by the Japanese.
1948: Vittorio de Sica’s film “Bicycle Thieves” – the pinnacle of Italian neorealism – premieres in Rome and is enthusiastically celebrated by critics and audiences.
1948: Premiere of the film “The Chancellor” with Hans Moser in the leading role.
1948: In Belgium, the socialist Paul-Henri Spaak forms a coalition government. The Christian Socialist Gaston Eyskens becomes deputy prime minister and finance minister.
1953: The Soviet Union agrees to a foreign ministers’ conference with the Western powers regarding the German problem.
1963: Heads of state from all over the world, including the Presidents of France and Germany, General Charles de Gaulle and Heinrich Lübke, and the Austrian Chancellor Alfons Gorbach, arrive in Washington to take part in the funeral ceremonies for the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy.
1983: Gunmen robbed gold bars and diamonds worth the equivalent of more than 51 million euros from a security depot at London’s Heathrow Airport.
1988: The US government refuses to grant PLO leader Yasser Arafat an entry visa. The UN General Assembly, before which Arafat is supposed to speak, has to temporarily move its session from New York to Geneva.
1988: The Supreme Soviet of the USSR declares the Baltic Republic’s declaration of sovereignty adopted by the Estonian parliament unconstitutional.
1988: The European Film Prize (“Felix”) is awarded for the first time. The directors Krzysztof Kieślowski and Wim Wenders will be honored.
1993: In Germany, the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and 35 affiliated organizations are banned by the Ministry of the Interior.
1998: For the first time since Irish independence, a British head of government – Tony Blair – addresses the two houses of the Irish Parliament in Dublin.
1998: In Vienna, the historians’ commission to examine the questions of the “Aryanizations” (following 1938) begins its work. On February 24, 2003, the international commission published the results of the individual research projects and reports.
2003: After more than a year under British direct administration, the Northern Irish are electing a new regional parliament. The winner is the radical Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of the Protestant preacher Ian Paisley. On the Catholic side, the Sinn Féin party is making significant gains.
2008: Terrorists launch a series of attacks and hostage-taking in the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai), killing more than 140 people in the following days. The attacks targeted several targets in the city, including the luxury hotels Taj and Oberoi, the Leopold’s restaurant, a Jewish center and the main train station.
2008: The EU Commission announces an economic stimulus package worth 200 billion euros to deal with the economic crisis. This corresponds to around 1.5 percent of the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP). Originally there was talk of 130 billion euros.
Birthdays: Johann Christoph Wagenseil, German historian (1633-1708); Karl Sudhoff, German physician (1853-1938); Mihály Babits, Hungarian writer (1883-1941); Milan Dubrović, Austrian Publicist and former editor-in-chief of “Die Presse” (1903-1994); Sebastián Piana, arg. composer and pianist (1903-1994); Maria Dutli-Rutishauser, Black writer (1903-1995); Gordon Alexander Craig, US-British historian (1913-2005); Patricio Aylwin Azócar, Chilean politician (1918-2016); Imre Pozsgay, Hungarian politician (1933-2016); Elizabeth Helen “Liz” Blackburn, Australian-US molecular biologist; Nobel Prize 2009 (1948); Edi Hauser, formerly Black Cross-country skier (1948).
Days of death: Joseph Graf von Colloredo-Mels and Wallsee, eastern. Field Marshal (1735-1818); Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist (1797-1873); Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (1882-1963); Arnold Zweig, German writer (1887-1968); Carl Seemann, German pianist (1910-1983); Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director (1940-2018) (according to other information 1941-2018); Stephen Hillenburg, US creator of the animated series “SpongeBob” (1961-2018).
Name days: Konrad, Gebhard, Silvester, Petrus, Johannes B., Delphine, Leonhard, Dominikus, Ida.
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