2023-10-08 22:42:27
On Monday, October 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
768: After the death of their father Pippin, Carloman and Charlemagne (the Great) succeed the Frankish king in the southern and northern halves of the empire, respectively. (Charles restored unity following his brother’s death in 771).
1888: The George Washington Monument opens to visitors for the first time in the USA.
1918: Austria’s Christian Socialists make a statement on converting the Danube Monarchy into a federation. In almost all respects it corresponds to that of the Social Democrats on October 3rd.
1928: In China, the Kuomintang military ruler General Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) officially becomes head of state.
1943: World War II: Beginning of the Soviet autumn offensive. The German attackers are thrown back from Kerch to the Crimea.
1948: Spanish socialists and monarchists in exile conclude a cooperation agreement once morest the Franco dictatorship, which is approved by the governments of Great Britain and France. In the agreement they demand the elimination of totalitarianism and free elections.
1948: In Czechoslovakia, the communist law for the “protection of the people’s democratic order” comes into force. It also contains provisions on the “re-education” of opponents of the regime in labor camps.
1953: German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is re-elected by the Bundestag in Bonn.
1958: Pope Pius XII dies in Castel Gandolfo. in the 20th year of his pontificate.
1963: In northern Italy, the mountain nose of the 1,821 m high Monte Toc falls into the Vajont reservoir, the Piave valley is flooded and the town of Longarone is destroyed. About 2,500 people drown.
1968: The trial begins in South Tyrol once morest major rifleman Klotz and six other people for two explosive attacks.
1983: During a state visit to Burma, South Korea’s head of state General Chun Doo Hwan narrowly escaped a bomb attack; four of his ministers and other companions were killed in the explosive explosion during a wreath-laying ceremony in the mausoleum of the Burmese national hero Aung San in Rangoon.
1993: In their “Vienna Declaration”, the heads of state and government of the member states of the Council of Europe committed themselves to supporting national minorities.
1993: In the civil war in Somalia, the strongest militia leader, General Mohammed Farah Aidid, announces a unilateral ceasefire.
1998: Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns following losing a vote of confidence in parliament.
2013: The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the Vienna-born US theoretical chemist Martin Karplus and his two US colleagues Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel. You will receive the award for the foundations of computer models used to understand and predict chemical processes.
2018: The trial once morest the former Green MP Sigrid Maurer at the Vienna Regional Court ends with a not yet legally binding verdict for slander, but with an acquittal on the charge of credit damage. She had posted obscene messages to her on Facebook and Twitter, accusing the owner of a beer store of writing them, who then sued her. The Supreme Court overturns the judgment of the first court. In 2021, the beer landlord, who was later sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, finally withdrew his lawsuit and Maurer’s acquittal became final.
Birthdays: Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1813-1901) (according to other information October 10); Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and music teacher (1873-1944); Nikolai Bukharin, Soviet politician (1888-1938); Heinrich George, German actor (1893-1946); Trudi Schoop, Black dancer (1903-1999); Jacques Tati, French film actor and director (1908-1982); Sir Peter Mansfield, British physicist; Nobel Prize 2003 (1933-2017); Heinz Fischer, Eastern. Politician (SPÖ), Federal President 2004-2016 (1938); Jackson Browne, US singer and songwriter (1948); Tony Shalhoub, US actor (1953).
Days of death: Abraham Oppenheim, German banker (1804-1878); Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) (1876-1958); Felix Wankel, German inventor (1902-1988); Jacques Brel, Belgian chansonnier (1929-1978); Thomas Steitz, US biochemist; Nobel Prize 2009 (1940-2018).
Name days: Dionysius, Johann, Leonhard, Günther, Denise, Sibylle, Eleutherius, Manuela, Ingrid, Abraham, Sarah.
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