2023-10-02 22:07:04
On Tuesday, October 3rd, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: Vienna declares the Hungarian Reichstag dissolved. A state of siege is declared over Hungary.
1913: The film “The Island of the Blessed” directed by Max Reinhardt premieres in Berlin.
1918: The Austrian Social Democrats support negotiations to transform Austria-Hungary into a “federation of free national communities”.
1918: The German Emperor Wilhelm II appoints Prince Max of Baden as Chancellor. On the same day he sent a ceasefire request to US President Woodrow Wilson. (The prince’s reign ends on November 9th)
1918: King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, who led his country to defeat on the side of the Central Powers, abdicates in favor of his son. He ascends as Boris III. the throne.
1923: The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq, established with British help, becomes a member of the League of Nations.
1933: Revolver assassination attempt by the National Socialist Rudolf Drtil on Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß in the parliament in Vienna. The head of government is only slightly injured.
1938: In Vienna – as a consequence of the “Anschluss” – right-hand traffic is introduced.
1963: The foreign ministers of the USA, Great Britain and the USSR agree in principle on a ban on the use of space to launch nuclear weapons.
1963: After years of internment, Prague Archbishop Josef Beran is released by the Czechoslovak authorities. (He was later allowed to travel to Rome, where he spent the last years of his life as a cardinal).
1968: In Peru, the army under General Juan Velasco Alvarado takes power. The left-wing reformist officers implemented a comprehensive nationalization program and a radical agrarian reform by 1975.
1973: As the successor to the late Walter Ulbricht, Willi Stoph becomes Chairman of the State Council and thus Head of State of the GDR.
1978: After a record construction period of 18 months, the Floridsdorf Bridge in Vienna opens.
1988: The Bavarian Prime Minister and head of the CSU, Franz Josef Strauss, dies in a Regensburg hospital at the age of 73.
1993: In Moscow, the power struggle shifts to the streets: thousands of Yeltsin’s opponents overcome the police barriers and advance to the parliament building, the “White House”. Vice President Alexander Rutskoy and Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov call on them to storm the Ostankino television headquarters. The president declares a state of emergency in the capital.
2008: Green federal spokesman Alexander Van der Bellen is stepping down following eleven years in office. His successor will be the previous deputy, Eva Glawischnig.
Birthdays: Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (1858-1924); Heinrich Suso Waldeck (aka Augustin Popp), Eastern. writer (1873-1943); Eugen Wüster, Eastern. linguist (1898-1977); Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (1913-1998); Anna Smolik, Eastern actress (1928); Eddie Cochran (born Edward Ray C.), US rock singer (1938-1960); Neve Campbell, Canada Actress (1973).
Days of death: George KA Bell, British theologian (1883-1958); By Nguyen Giáp, Vietnam. General (1911-2013); Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (1915-1988); Leon M. Lederman, US physicist; Nobel Prize 1988 (1922-2018); Frank D’Rone, US jazz musician (1932-2013); Bill Eppridge, US photojournalist (1938-2013); Sergej Belov, Soviet basketball player (1944-2013).
Name days: Ewald, Gerhard, Theresia, Uda, Udo, Candider, Niketius, Mary Joseph R., Adalgott, Gerd.
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