2023-10-20 22:16:31
On Saturday, October 21st, the book of history records, among other things:
63 v.Chr.: The Roman consul Marcus Tullius Cicero uncovers a subversive conspiracy led by Lucius Catiline. With the support of Caesar and Crassus, he planned a coup in the event of his electoral defeat. Cicero – praised by his followers as the “Father of the Fatherland” – has Catiline expelled from the city and some of his followers executed.
1848: The siege ring around Vienna closes. The imperial commander-in-chief, Prince Windischgrätz, has 70,000 soldiers at his disposal, who are opposed by between 30,000 and 40,000 insurgents.
1878: The German Reichstag approves the law passed by Kaiser Wilhelm I once morest the “publicly dangerous efforts of social democracy” (“Socialist Law”), which bans all left-wing associations and press products.
1918: The German-speaking Cisleithan Reichsrat deputies of the disintegrating Austro-Hungarian monarchy constitute themselves as the Provisional National Assembly in the Lower Austrian Landhaus in Vienna’s Herrengasse.
1918: More than 70 people die in an explosion in a machine factory in Dessau (then Prussia).
1923: The second National Council elections of the First Republic brought gains for the Social Democrats and the Christian Socialists and losses for the Greater Germans. The Christian Social Chancellor, Prelate Ignaz Seipel, remains in office.
1923: A “Rhine Republic” is proclaimed in Aachen. The separatist coup collapses following a few days.
1928: With the election of the publisher Alfred Hugenberg as party leader, the extreme right wing of the German National People’s Party (DNVP), which is supported by heavy industry, prevails.
1938: On their campaign of conquest in China, Japanese troops take the southern metropolis of Canton (Guangzhou) and cause a bloodbath among the civilian population.
1948: The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its troops from North Korea.
1963: The UN General Assembly rejects the granting of the Chinese UN seat to the communist government in Beijing. (The Nationalist government, which fled to Taiwan in 1949, represented China in the United Nations until 1971).
1973: In the Vienna municipal council and state elections, the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) of ex-Interior Minister Franz Olah, who was expelled from the SPÖ, and former ÖGB president, lost its three mandates to the Socialists. The ÖVP wins one seat at the expense of the FPÖ.
1993: During a military coup in the East African state of Burundi, the democratically elected President Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the Hutu majority, is assassinated by officers from the Tutsi minority. The army then massacres the civilian population.
1998: In Italy, the new government is sworn in under the left-wing democrat and ex-communist Massimo d’Alema.
2003: The Linz theologian Manfred Scheuer becomes the new bishop of the Archdiocese of Innsbruck. He replaces Alois Kothgasser, who is moving to Salzburg as Archbishop, in his office.
2008: Chaos in the AUA sales finale. The offer period has ended. Air France waves it off, and Russian interest in the S-7 also remained non-binding. Only Lufthansa made a binding offer, but it demanded high debt discounts. Ultimately, the offer period was extended and Lufthansa took over AUA in 2009.
Birthdays: Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist and inventor (1833-1896); Gyula Krúdy, Hungarian writer (1878-1933); Richard Katz, German writer (1888-1968); Ernst Fuhrmann, Eastern. industrial manager (1918-1995); Reinhard Lempp, German psychiatrist (1923-2012); Maureen Duffy, British writer (1933); Robert Meyer, German-Eastern Actor (1953).
Days of death: Sixtus Dietrich, German composer (between 1492 and 1494-1548); Johann Conrad Schlaun, German master builder (1695-1773); Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian writer (1807-1873); Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (1895-1978); Sonja Bernadotte, German “Mainau Countess” (1944-2008); Elliott Smith, American songwriter (1969-2003).
Name days: Ursula, Severin, Hilarion, Ottilie, Constanze, Clementine, Irmtraud, Cordula, Jakob, Matthäus.
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