2023-09-09 22:27:42
On Sunday, September 10th, the book of history records, among other things:
1813: In the American-British War, the US Navy defeats the British on Lake Erie.
1848: A ban on mustaches for German postal workers enacted in 1821 is lifted.
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria is stabbed with a file by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni on the jetty of the steamboat pier in Geneva.
1918: The Red Army recaptures Kazan and Simbirsk from Belarusian units.
1928: Spain, Iran and Venezuela are elected to the Governing Council of the League of Nations.
1933: The instruments of ratification of the concordat between the Holy See and Hitler’s Germany are exchanged.
1943: The Italian provinces of Bolzano, Trent, Belluno, Trieste, Gorizia, Udine, Pola and Fiume, as well as Laibach, which were occupied by the German Wehrmacht, are subordinated to the Gauleiters of Tyrol, Carinthia and Styria. Due to the collapse of Italy, the Yugoslav partisans came into possession of considerable stocks of weapons.
1943: The mass shooting of captured Italians by the German Wehrmacht begins on the Greek island of Kephalonia. 8,400 officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the “Acqui” are massacred by their former brothers in arms.
1948: In the Allied Council, Soviet Colonel General Zheltov accused the Austrian federal government of not consistently carrying out the denazification of the authorities. The representatives of the USA and Great Britain reject these allegations.
1963: US President John F. Kennedy subordinates the Alabama National Guard to the federal government, thereby ensuring the admission of 20 black children to schools previously reserved for whites.
1983: On the occasion of Austrian Catholic Day, John Paul II is the second pope (following Pius VI in the 18th century) to visit Austria.
1988: “Gilbert”, one of the most severe hurricanes in recent decades, caused enormous damage in the Caribbean and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
1993: After years of negotiations with Hungary, the cross-border Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park is becoming a reality. It is the only steppe national park in Europe.
1993: Numerous people, mostly women and children, are killed in a retaliatory strike by American soldiers once morest civil war militias in Somalia.
1998: Russian President Boris Yeltsin appoints former Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov as prime minister. Primakov was confirmed by the State Duma the following day with a large majority.
2003: 17 years following the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme, the whole of Sweden is in shock: Foreign Minister Anna Lindh (46) is the victim of an assassination attempt in the Stockholm department store “Nordiska Kompaniet”, just a few hundred meters from Parliament, while buying a dress for a television appearance wanted. The social democratic politician, who was seriously injured by numerous knife stabs, died the following day. The alleged perpetrator was caught by the police two weeks later.
2008: The world’s largest particle accelerator LHC begins operations at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN. Physicists around the world hope that the gigantic machine in a 27-kilometer-long tunnel in the Swiss-French border area will provide answers to fundamental questions regarding the origin and structure of the world.
Birthdays: Burkhard Mangold, black painter (1873-1950); Georges de Rham, Black mathematician (1903-1990); Jean Gaudemet, French historian (1908-2001); Uri Avnery (aka Helmut Ostermann), Israel. Journalist, writer, politician and peace activist (1923-2018); Karl O. Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (1938-2019); Amy Irving, US actress (1953); Chris Columbus, US film director (1958); Guy Ritchie, British film director (1968); Andreas Herzog, former Austrian football player (1968); Deniz Yücel, German-Turkish. Journalist (1973).
Days of death: Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary (née Duchess in Bavaria) (1837-1898); Ferdinand I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, King of Bulgaria (1861-1948); Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (1894-1968); Felix Bloch, Swiss-American. Physicist; Nobel Prize 1952 (1905-1983); Paul Virilio, French philosopher (1932-2018).
Name days: Nikolaus, Diethard, Theodard, Jodokus, Pulcheria, Justus, Isabella, Jezabel, Karla, Moses, Ottokar.
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