2023-10-25 22:38:26
On Thursday, October 26th, the book of history records, among other things:
1863: The Football Association (FA), the English football association, is founded in London.
1863: On the initiative of the Genevan Henri Dunant and the Geneva Non-Profit Society, the international association of the Red Cross for the care of the wounded in war is founded.
1873: Anton Bruckner’s Second Symphony, C minor, is premiered in Vienna.
1918: Emperor Charles I breaks off the alliance with Germany and makes a peace offer to the American President Wilson.
1928: In Detroit, the “Cadillac Motor Car Company” builds the first motor vehicles with synchronous transmissions.
1933: Arab demonstrations once morest Jewish immigration to Palestine take place in Jaffa.
1948: A treason trial begins in Romania once morest “anti-Soviet conspirators and spies”. The defendants include several former ministers, high-ranking officers of the former royal army and captains of industry.
1958: Pan American Airways (PAA) opens scheduled transatlantic jet flights between New York and Paris.
1958: In a referendum, the Swiss majority rejected the initiative of the State Ring of Independents (LdU) (party of the founder of the Migros cooperative Gottlieb Duttweiler) to limit weekly working hours to 44 hours.
1963: The new American missile “Polaris-A3” is fired from a submarine off the coast of Florida from a depth of 15 m. It covers a distance of 3,701 km to the South Atlantic target area.
1983: The Soviet Union threatens to break off the Geneva negotiations if the West deploys new missiles.
1988: The government of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro resigns as a unit.
1993: The completion of the rehearsal stage of the Burgtheater in the Arsenal, designed by the architect Gustav Peichl, will be celebrated with an open day.
2003: US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz escapes unharmed from a rocket attack in Baghdad.
2003: On the national holiday, Federal President Thomas Klestil called on the ÖVP-FPÖ government to “find new common ground” when implementing reforms. In return, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel calls on “those who constantly urge dialogue” to think regarding whether they are not more concerned with “refusing the necessary reforms”.
2008: Rebels take control of parts of the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fierce fighting with government troops led by President Joseph Kabila is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee. The UN warns of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Birthdays: Joseph Gregor, Eastern writer (1888-1960); Charlie Barnet, US jazz musician (1913-1991); Marc Hodler, Switzerland. sports official; including President of the International Ski Association (1918-2006); Theresia Kiesl, Eastern Politician and former middle-distance runner (1963).
Days of death: Rudolf Forster, Eastern Actor (according to other information October 25) (1884-1968); Engelbert Broda, Eastern Physicist/radiochemist (1910-1983).
Name days: Wigand, Sigisbald, Bernhard, Evarist, Witta, Albuin, Amanda.
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