2023-11-07 23:57:30
On Wednesday, November 8th, the book of history records, among other things:
1793: The Louvre in Paris is opened to the public as a museum. In the original castle of the French kings – built at the beginning of the 13th century by Philipp August and under Louis XIII. converted – in addition to the former royal collections, church treasures confiscated during the revolution and later Napoleonic art thefts from other countries are stored.
1918: The ceasefire negotiations begin in a railway carriage in the Compiègne forest between the German delegation led by the centrist politician Matthias Erzberger and the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch.
1933: King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan is assassinated. His son Zahir Shah ascends the throne.
1948: Ex-Central Secretary Erwin Scharf, who was expelled from the SPÖ because of pro-communist tendencies, is stripped of his National Council mandate.
1953: The trial begins in Tehran against former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who nationalized the British oil companies and was overthrown in August at the instigation of the USA. (He is sentenced to three years in prison).
1953: After France recognized Cambodia’s full sovereignty, King Norodom Sihanouk triumphantly returns to the capital Phnom Penh from his temporary exile in Thailand.
1968: The last of the British mail robbers to be arrested is Bruce Reynolds, who was able to evade arrest for five years. In the raid on the Glasgow-London train on August 8, 1963, the equivalent of more than 200 million schillings were stolen (“Great Train Robbery”).
1983: 126 dead in Angolan airliner crash in Angola.
1988: George Bush becomes the 41st President of the USA, James Baker becomes the new Secretary of State.
2003: According to official information, 17 people are killed and 132 injured in a terrorist attack in a residential area for foreigners in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh.
2008: The general election in New Zealand brings a change of government. Prime Minister Helen Clark loses with her Labor coalition against the conservative alliance of her challenger John Key.
Birthdays: Anton Faistenberger, Eastern Painter, etcher and baroque master (1663-1708); Joseph Monier, French gardener and inventor of reinforced concrete (1823-1906); Horst Mönnich, German writer (1918-2014); Jack St. Clair Kilby, US physicist and electrical engineer; Nobel Prize 2000 (1923-2005); Ingrid Bjoner, Norway. singer (1928-2006); Manfred Maurer, eastern Writer (1958-1998).
Days of death: Johannes Duns Scotus, Scottish theologian (1266-1308); Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, German general (1721-1773); Victorien Sardou, French playwright (1831-1908); Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, Russian poet (1870-1953); Richard Katz, German writer (1888-1968); Jean Marais, French actor (1913-1998); Mieczysław Rakowski, Polish journalist/politician (1926-2008); Franz Gansrigler, Eastern. Journalist, theologian (1950-2013).
Name days: Gottfried, Claudius, Willehad, Severus, Gregor, Martin, Johannes, Michael, Gabriel, Josef.
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