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1209: Pope Innocent III crowns the Guelph Otto IV, who was elected German king in 1198, as emperor.
1529: Reformers from Wittenberg, Strasbourg and Switzerland sign the 15 “Marburg Articles”. A comprehensive agreement fails due to the sacrament dispute.
1689: The mystic and religious innovator Quirinus Kuhlmann is burned in Moscow as a heretic and troublemaker.
1819: The pastor Johann Baptist Weber founded the “First Austrian Spar-Casse”.
1824: After the fall of the short-term empire of Agustín I Iturbide, Mexico becomes a republic with a federal constitution modeled on the USA. Guadalupe Victoria (Manuel Fernández) becomes the first president.
1834: Franz Grillparzer’s dramatic fairy tale “The Dream a Life” premieres at Vienna’s Burgtheater.
1904: Portugal and the Netherlands determine the border on the island of Timor, which has been divided between the two colonial powers since 1859.
1924: The German Reichsbank is placed under international supervision under the terms of the Dawes Plan. The victorious powers of the First World War want to stabilize the German currency and ensure the country’s solvency.
1929: Fritz Lang’s film “The Woman in the Moon” premieres in Berlin.
1944: British troops land near Patras on the Greek mainland.
1954: At its congress in Frankfurt am Main, the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) decides on a strategy to enforce the 40-hour week.
1959: Launch of the Soviet probe “Lunik 3”, which for the first time in the history of space travel photographs the side of the moon facing away from Earth.
1964: Hurricane Hilda devastates a wide strip of coastline in the US state of Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico.
1969: After 26 months of house arrest in Beijing, the Chinese authorities are allowing British correspondent Anthony Gray to leave the country, whose reporting for the Reuters news agency on the “Cultural Revolution” had displeased the Communist Party leadership.
1969: Liese Prokop sets a new world record in the athletics pentathlon at Vienna’s Südstadt Stadium.
1999: Extradited from Argentina, 77-year-old Dinko Šakić, former commandant of the Croatian Jasenovac concentration camp and official of the fascist Ustasha regime, is sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Zagreb for war crimes.
2004: The awarding of this year’s Nobel Prizes begins in Stockholm. The two US researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck receive the award for physiology and medicine. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the two researchers decoded both the structure of odor receptors in cells of the nasal mucosa and the signal processing of odor stimuli in the brain.
Birthdays: Vincenz Prießnitz, German-Eastern naturopath (1799-1851); Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (according to other sources 1818; 1819-1901); Rudolf Swoboda the Younger, Eastern. painter (1859-1914); Luigia Cerale, Eastern Ballet dancer of Italian origin (according to other information October 19th) (1859-1937); Franz Jonas, Eastern Statesman and Federal President 1965-74 (1899-1974); Hans Christian, Eastern opera singer (1929-2011); Peter Landesmann, Eastern Author (1929); Armand Assante, US actor (1949); Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys) (1959); Viktoria Rebensburg, German former ski racer (1989).
Days of death: Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn), Dutch. painter and graphic artist (1606-1669); Franz Fr. v. the Trenck, eastern. Prussian officer. Origin; Pandur leader (1711-1749); Karl Baedeker, German publisher (1801-1859); Edmund Eysler (also Eisler), Eastern. Operetta composer (1874-1949); Viktor Vinogradov, Russian philologist (1895-1969); Willy Guhl, Switzerland. furniture designer (1915-2004); Anne Sexton, US poet (1928-1974); Jean-Claude Duvalier (“Baby Doc”), Haitian. Former dictator (1951-2014).
Name days: Francis of Assisi, Edwin, Herwig, Aurea, Marsus, Markus, Theresia.
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