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1273: The electors elect Count Rudolf of Habsburg (1218-1291) as German king. This ends the interregnum (time without authority). Rudolf’s predecessors Richard of Cornwall and Alfonso of Castile were unable to prevail.
1893: The Salzburg State Theater opens with the overture “Titus” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the play “The Talisman” by Johann Nestroy.
1908: The Ford T model (Tin Lizzy), designed by the American industrialist Henry Ford, came onto the market and 15 million units were produced by 1927.
1928: In the Soviet Union, the first five-year plan to increase industrial production and promote agriculture through collectivization is adopted.
1933: Deutsche Post opens the world’s first public telex connection between Berlin and Hamburg.
1938: The German Wehrmacht invades the Sudetenland. Czechoslovakia loses a fifth of its territory.
1948: The western “Red River” (starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift) is being released in the USA.
1953: The USA signs a defense pact with South Korea.
1958: The US aerospace agency NASA begins operations.
1958: The American rock idol Elvis Presley arrives in the Federal Republic of Germany to complete his military service.
1958: Morocco and Tunisia become members of the Arab League.
1963: Nigeria becomes a republic within the Commonwealth. The first president will be the previous Governor General Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (until 1966).
1968: In Great Britain, drivers are given the opportunity to insure themselves once morest driving license revocation.
1983: The ban on the import of seal pups called for by animal rights activists comes into force in the EC.
1988: The Supreme Soviet elects CPSU leader Mikhail Gorbachev as head of state of the USSR following the resignation of Andrei Gromyko.
1988: With her Olympic victory in Seoul, the 19-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf became the first athlete in the history of tennis to achieve the so-called “Golden Slam”, winning all four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympic gold medal within one calendar year.
1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin warns NATO once morest rapid eastward expansion.
2003: Air France and KLM merge to form Europe’s largest airline.
Birthdays: Karl Rankl, Eastern conductor (1898-1968); George Peppard, US actor (1928-1994); Laurence Harvey, British actor (1928-1973); Gerhard Weis, Eastern Journalist and ORF director 1998-2001 (1938-2019); Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director (1943); Klaus Wowereit, German SPD politician; Mayor of Berlin 2001-2014 (1953); Doris Mayer, Eastern Actress (1958-2018).
Days of death: Don Juan de Austria (native son of Emperor Charles V), Spanish general (1547-1578); Alois Negrelli, Eastern civil engineer (1799-1858); Switbert Lobisser, Austrian painter and wood carver (1878-1943); Alois Brusatti, Eastern economic and social historian; “Father of historical business analysis”; 1975-1981 Rector of the WU Vienna (1919-2008); Charles Aznavour, French chansonnier and actor (1924-2018); Giuiliano Gemma, Italian actor (1938-2013); Tom Clancy, US writer (1947-2013); Graciano “Rocky” Rocchigiani, German boxer (1963-2018).
Name days: Theresia, Remigius, Gilda, Giselbert, Werner, Roman, Bavo, Emanuel, Manuela, Ingrid, Franz, Ralph.
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