2023-10-26 22:42:37
On Friday, October 27th, the book of history records, among other things:
1553: John Calvin had one of his main critics, the Spaniard Michel Servetus, burned in Geneva.
1848: In Frankfurt’s Paulskirche, a strong majority of the National Assembly voted for a “Greater German” solution: the multinational Habsburg Monarchy should be divided into a part that belonged to the future Reich and a “non-Reich” part.
1848: A left-wing counter-parliament meets in Berlin. Although members of the Paulskirche also took part, the success of mobilization outside Prussia remained low.
1858: Roland H. Macy opens a fancy goods store on New York’s 6th Avenue. Later, RH Macy and Co. Inc. became the largest department store in the world.
1883: In Vienna the first steam tram runs on the Hietzing-Perchtoldsdorf route.
1918: Heinrich Lammasch forms the last imperial government in Austria. The priest Ignaz Seipel becomes social minister.
1918: One day following breaking off its alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary asked the Entente powers for a separate peace.
1948: The verdicts are handed down in the Nuremberg trial once morest the Wehrmacht High Command.
1948: First London Motor Show following the war: Morris presents three new models, including the “Minor”. Rover introduces the “Land Rover”, a robust all-wheel drive off-road vehicle.
1958: Premiere of the ballet “Undine” by Hans Werner Henze, with Margot Fonteyn, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
1968: The Austrian physicist Lise Meitner dies in Cambridge. As an employee of Otto Hahn at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, she carried out essential preparatory work for the calculation of atomic fission.
1973: As a result of the oil supply boycott by Arab states, the Dutch government is issuing a Sunday driving ban. Other European countries are following suit.
1978: Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1983: At the SPÖ party conference, Chancellor Sinowatz was elected party chairman and his predecessor Kreisky was elected honorary chairman.
1993: For the first time since the collectivization of agriculture in the 1920s, private land ownership will be permitted in Russia.
1998: Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest hurricanes of the century, claims 11,000 lives in Central America.
2003: The arrest of Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky shakes the financial markets. The share price of his Yukos group collapses by 20 percent.
2008: Former building minister and ÖFB president Karl Sekanina dies at the age of 82 following a long stay in hospital.
2008: Josef Pröll takes over the leadership of the ÖVP parliamentary club. Josef Cap remains in office at the SPÖ, and Heinz-Christian Strache at the Freedom Party.
2008: The South Tyrolean People’s Party (SVP) lost its absolute majority of votes in the state elections and slipped below the 50 percent mark for the first time in its history. However, thanks to a remaining vote mandate, it has 18 seats in the 35-member state parliament and thus continues to have an absolute majority among the representatives.
2013: The German Sebastian Vettel secured his fourth Formula 1 World Championship title in a row in India.
Birthdays: James Cook, British explorer (1728-1779); Robert von Schlagintweit, German geographer and explorer (1833-1885); Theodore Roosevelt, US President (1858-1919); Lee Krasner, American painter (1908-1984); Otto Wichterle, Czech chemist; Inventor of soft contact lenses (1913-1998); Roy Lichtenstein, US painter and sculptor (1923-1997); Edda Moser, German coloratura soprano (1938); Farin Urlaub, German singer (“The Doctors”) (1963); Vanessa Mae, British violinist (1978).
Days of death: Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Austrian circumnavigator (1797-1858); Eva Tetrazzini, Italian soprano (1862-1938); Lise Meitner, Austrian atomic physicist (1878-1968); Walter von Molo, German writer (1880-1958); Eduard Künneke, German composer (1885-1953); Curt Herzstark, Austrian Inventor and office machine mechanic (1902-1988); Karl Sekanina, Eastern politician (1926-2008); Lou Reed, US musician (1942-2013).
Name days: Frumentius, Wolfhart, Sabine, Hernard, Christina, Kirsten, Kerstin, Tina, Vinzenz, Nestor, Hermelina.
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