October 10, 1973: Austria signs the United Nations Human Rights Act

2023-10-09 22:47:46

On Tuesday, October 10th, the book of history records, among other things:

1818: The Monarchs’ Congress of the “Holy Alliance” passes the “Aachen Protocol”. Austria, Russia, Great Britain and Prussia accept France as the fifth great power and reaffirm their common determination to stand up for “the peace of the world” (le repos du monde).
1828: Traffic recording of the Budweis-Untersteindörfl section of the Linz-Budweis horse-drawn railway. (Emperor Franz I opened the entire route in 1832).
1868: After severe unrest, a state of siege is imposed on Bohemia.
1903: The British women’s rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst founded the “National Women’s Social and Political Union” in Manchester to enforce women’s right to vote.
1913: With the blowing up of the Gamboa Dam in the Panama Canal, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will be connected. The sea route between New York and San Francisco will be shortened by 14,580 kilometers.
1928: Gerhart Hauptmann’s novel “Wanda” is published.
1938: The occupation of the Sudeten areas by the German Wehrmacht is completed.
1943: In Greece, fighting breaks out between the two strongest anti-fascist resistance organizations, the communist ELAS and the nationalist EDES. (Armistice in February 1944).
1948: A major Carinthian rally once morest Yugoslavian territorial claims takes place in Klagenfurt under the chairmanship of Governor Wedenig. An appeal is being made to the UN to recognize the borders established in 1920.
1953: The 3rd World Trade Union Congress begins in Vienna with more than 800 participants from 79 countries.
1963: With the deposit of the ratification documents, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into force.
1973: Austria signs the United Nations Human Rights Act.
1973: US Vice President Spiro Agnew, accused of tax evasion, extortion and bribery, resigns. (Republican leader Gerald Ford will be his successor).
1983: The Likud politician Yitzhak Shamir, who as one of the leaders of the terrorist “Stern Group” was involved in the murder of the UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in 1948, becomes Israeli Prime Minister as the successor to Menachem Begin.
1983: The Polish labor leader Lech Wałęsa, who was interned following martial law was declared, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1988: Chancellor Franz Vranitzky meets with Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow.
1993: With the election victory of his Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Andreas Papandreou returns to power in Greece following a four-year break.
2003: Israel is launching a new military offensive in the Gaza Strip with an attack on the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah.
2003: The Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi is the first Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2008: The Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize to Finnish ex-president Martti Ahtisaari (71). Ahtisaari tried, among other things, to mediate in Kosovo and the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh.

Birthdays: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1813-1901); OF Berg (also known as Ottokar Franz Ebersberg), eastern writer (1833-1886); Pierre Koenig, French general (1898-1970); Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, Soviet physicist (1908-1990); Claude Simon, French writer (1913-2005); Yigal Allon, Israel. politician (1918-1980); Daniel Raymond Massey, British actor (1933-1998).
Days of death: Rudolf Oldenbourg, German publisher (1811-1903); Ludwig Edler v. Mises, Eastern-US economist (1881-1973); Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (1902-1983); Kurt Debus, German-US rocket engineer (1908-1983); Edith Piaf, French Singer (1915-1963) (according to other information, died October 11, 1963); Kurt Weinzierl, Eastern. actor (1931-2008); Catherine Collard, French pianist (1947-1993).
Name days: Gereon, Franz, Borgia, Franko, Kassius, Florentin, Viktor, Fried(e)mann, Daniel, Daniela, Georg.

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