2023-10-16 22:52:03
On Tuesday, October 17th, the book of history records, among other things:
1828: Premiere of the fairy tale “The Alpine King and the Misanthrope” by Ferdinand Raimund in the Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Vienna.
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I, who fled with his court to Olomouc, announced in a manifesto that he would send armed forces once morest Vienna, the “seat of insurrection”, in order to restore “order, calm and legality”.
1848: After the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV demanded that Berlin be declared under siege, Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel resigned from his office for the second time. The resignation is accepted.
1868: The first dog race takes place in Roehampton in England.
1868: The revised shipping act is signed in Mannheim, which guarantees free shipping on the Rhine.
1883: Opening of the Mödling-Hinterbrühl electric local railway.
1903: Emperor Franz Josef receives the father-in-law of his dead son Rudolf, the Belgian King Leopold II.
1903: An arbitration tribunal in London determines the final border between Alaska and Canada.
1913: 24 people die when the German naval airship “L-2” explodes at a height of 300 meters over Johannisthal near Berlin.
1933: Romania and Turkey conclude a non-aggression and friendship treaty.
1943: The Confessional Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union condemns the killing of people for reasons of age, health and “race”.
1953: The European Conference of Transport Ministers meets for the first time in Brussels.
1958: The Austrian Radio Advisory Board recommends a ban on alcohol on radio and television.
1973: First signs of a global oil crisis: Six OPEC countries in the Persian Arabian Gulf are increasing crude oil prices by 17 percent while simultaneously reducing production volumes.
1973: The award-winning Austrian poet, storyteller and radio play author Ingeborg Bachmann dies in an apartment fire in Rome.
1983: The largest wind power plant in the world, the “Große Windturbine” (GROWIAN) in Dithmarschen (FRG), is put into operation.
1988: The EC ratifies the Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer.
1988: On the occasion of a visit by the President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), Bronfman, the GDR declared its willingness to pay compensation to Nazi victims outside its territory for the first time.
1993: In a referendum, the majority of people in Innsbruck rejected the idea of hosting a third Winter Olympics (following 1964 and 1976).
1998: Elfriede Jelinek receives the Büchner Prize from the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
2003: The world’s tallest skyscraper is being completed in the Taiwanese capital Taipei. At 508 meters and 101 floors, it towers over the “Petronas Towers” in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia, 452 meters).
2008: The UN admits Austria to the Security Council as a non-permanent member for two years. In the vote in the general assembly, Vienna and Turkey can prevail in the first round. This means that Austria will be joining the UN’s most important body for the third time in January.
2008: The Constantia Privatbank must be taken care of. Five major banks are taking over the ailing Austrian private bank. The state is liable for a 450 million euro credit line from banks and the central bank.
2013: After a year of budget disputes, the US Congress only averted an impending national bankruptcy and thus chaos on the international financial markets at the very last minute. After weeks of blockage, both parties vote for a law that provides for a transition budget until January 15th and a higher debt limit until February 7th.
Birthdays: Georg Büchner, German playwright (1813-1837); Alfred Polgar (also known as Polak), Eastern. writer (1873-1955); Alexander Sutherland Neill, British educator (1883-1973); Nathanael West, US writer (1903-1940); Andrei Grechko, Soviet Marshal (1903-1976); Rita Hayworth, US actress (1918-1987); Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz, Polish theologian, archbishop (1923-2020); William Alison Anders, US astronaut (1933); Soeur Sourire (aka Jeanine Deckers), Belgian Catholic. nun and singer; Dominican; “The Smiling Sister”; “The Singing Nun” (1933-1985); Evel Knievel, US motorcycle stuntman (1938-2007); Roger de Weck, black. journalist (1953); David Nesta “Ziggy” Marley, Jamaica. Reggae musician and songwriter (1968).
Days of death: Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, British polar explorer (1807-1873); Patrice Maurice de Macmahon, Duke of Magenta, French marshal and statesman (1808-1893); Karl Johann Kautsky, Eastern. politician and philosopher (1854-1938); Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, President 1955-62 (1887-1978); Raymond Aron, French sociologist and philosopher (1905-1983); Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian (1908-1993); Jean Améry (also known as Hans Mayer), Eastern. writer (1912-1978); Ingeborg Bachmann, Eastern writer (1926-1973); Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer (1939-2003).
Name days: Rudolf, Ignatius, Hedwig, Hadwig, Florentine, Ethelbert, Marie-Louise, Augusta, Victor.
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