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On Wednesday, October 4th, the book of history records, among other things:
1808: The Prince’s Day convened by the French Emperor Napoleon I ends in Erfurt. France manages to reach an agreement with Russia. In this way, Napoleon secured peace in the east for his campaign of conquest in Spain.
1848: The Banus of Croatia, loyal to the emperor, Joseph Freiherr (later Count) Jellačic von Bužim, is appointed commander-in-chief in Hungary to put down the revolution.
1848: The first German Catholic Congress meets in Mainz, which sees itself as the “intellectual parliament of the German people”.
1853: Turkey under Sultan Abdulmejid I declares war on Russia (which refuses to withdraw its troops from the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia).
1878: The Chinese Empire opens its first embassy in Washington.
1883: The Orient Express begins its first journey from Paris to Constantinople.
1918: The new German Chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, includes three centrist politicians, including Matthias Erzberger, and the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann in his cabinet.
1928: RAVAG is experimentally broadcasting the first record program.
1928: Franz Lehar’s operetta “Friederike” premieres in Berlin’s Metropol Theater.
1933: The operetta film “Walzerkrieg” (regarding Johann Strauss and Josef Lanner) premieres in Berlin.
1943: An arrest operation by the Nazi German occupying forces in Denmark aimed at Jews fails. The forewarned population can hide the persecuted and bring them to safety in Sweden.
1958: The one on September 28th The Constitution of the Fifth Republic, approved by a large majority in a referendum, comes into force in France and the territories of the French Community, with the exception of Guinea (which voted “no” and declared its independence).
1958: The British airline BOAC begins scheduled flights across the Atlantic with the “Comet” on October 26th. The US company PanAm follows with the Boeing 707.
1963: Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Cuba, killing almost 4,000 people in Haiti and around 1,000 in Cuba.
1968: Prime Ministers Kosygin (USSR) and Černík (CSSR) agree on a stationing agreement for Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia.
1978: In Rome, the body of Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani) is ceremoniously buried in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica.
1983: The largest wind turbine in the world to date, GROWIAN (large wind turbine), is put into operation in Schleswig-Holstein (n.A. 17.10). Because there is an error in the housing design, the system cannot be operated at full power. The problems with materials and construction do not allow continuous testing. The system was idle for most of the time between the first test run and the end of operations in August 1987. In 1988 GROWIAN was dismantled.
1988: Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest producing country, is increasing its production quota. As a result, the price of oil fell to its lowest level in 26 years.
1993: With the support of heavy tanks, elite soldiers penetrate the Russian parliament building, the “White House”, on the orders of President Boris Yeltsin. Vice President Rutskoi and Parliament Speaker Khasbulatov are arrested following ten hours of resistance from their supporters. According to official information, 187 people died in the power struggle in Moscow.
2003: At the EU summit in Rome, member states and candidate countries cannot resolve their differences over the planned European constitution.
Birthdays: Armando Palacio Valdés, Spanish writer (1853-1938); Johan Hendrik van den Broek, Dutch architect (1898-1978); John Atanasoff, US physicist (1903-1995); Medard Boss, black psychotherapist (1903-1990); Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist; Nobel Prize 1981 (1918-1998); Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (1918-2013); Adrian Kantrowitz, US heart surgeon (1918-2008); Charlton Heston, US actor (1923-2008); Kurt Wüthrich, Black biophysicist; Nobel Prize 2002 (1938); Hans Sünkel, Eastern geodesist and university professor; 2003-2011 Rector of TU Graz (1948); Andreas Vollenweider, Black harpist, composer, producer and arranger (1953); Gabriel Loidolt, Eastern Writer (1953).
Days of death: Francis Biddle, US lawyer and politician (1886-1968); Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, black. politician (1936-1998); Hermann Painitz, Eastern. painter (1938-2018); Herbert Tumpel, Eastern Chamber official and social economist; from 1997-2013 President of the Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna (AK) (1948-2018).
Name days: Francis of Assisi, Edwin, Herwig, Aurea, Marsus, Markus, Theresia.
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