2023-09-10 22:54:34
On Monday, September 11th, the book of history records, among other things:
1133: Margrave Leopold III founded Heiligenkreuz Abbey in the southern Vienna Woods, the second oldest Cistercian monastery in what is now Austria (after Rein Abbey near Graz). The name is derived from a cross particle from the Holy Land that the Babenberg gifted to the monastery.
1273: Count Rudolf von Habsburg is elected German king in a primary election by the three ecclesiastical electors. (The unanimous confirmation follows on October 1st in Frankfurt am Main). This ends the interregnum (since the death of Conrad IV in 1254).
1928: The American TV station WGY in New York broadcasts the first television game.
1933: At a major rally of the Fatherland Front, which he founded, Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß outlined his program for the establishment of an authoritarian corporate state in a speech on the Vienna trotting track.
1933: In Hitler’s presence, the propaganda film “Hitlerjunge Quex – A film about the sacrifice of the German youth” premieres in Berlin as an “ideologically exemplary film”.
1933: With the founding of the “Pfarrernotbund” by Pastor Martin Niemöller, the Protestant church fight against conformity began in Nazi Germany. (Niemöller ends up in a concentration camp).
1943: V2 rockets, the German “miracle weapon”, hit London and Antwerp.
1948: Bavarians are allowed to drink their first full beer since the end of the war. (The beer costs 1.20 marks in the Munich festival tents).
1953: The Allied Council allows the Austrian government to issue passports and visas.
1963: Austria signs the nuclear test ban agreement.
1973: Chile’s democratically elected President Salvador Allende is overthrown in a bloody military coup. The coup plotters under General Augusto Pinochet bomb the presidential palace “La Moneda” in Santiago, Allende is killed. Supporters of the legitimate government are resisting the military in several cities. According to the junta, 223 people were killed on September 11th and 12th, while estimates from church circles vary between 3,000 and 10,000 deaths.
1978: London “Umbrella Murder”: The Bulgarian exiled author Georgi Markov dies after being attacked by a secret service agent after being stabbed with the poisoned tip of an umbrella.
1983: The starting signal for the on-screen text is given at the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin.
2018: A one-year-old is critically injured by a dog bite in Vienna. The Rottweiler broke away from his drunken owner and grabbed the child by the head. The boy dies a few days later. In response, the Viennese SPÖ announced, among other things, a leash and muzzle requirement for listed dogs.
Birthdays: Rudolf Kassner, Eastern cultural philosopher (1873-1959); Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist (1903-1969); Peter Palitzsch, German director and theater director (1918-2004); Grigory Baklanov, Russian writer (1923-2009); Pietro Ferrero Jr., Italian entrepreneur (1963-2011).
Days of death: David Ricardo, British economist (1772-1823); Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (1876-1948); Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, British ethnologist (1902-1973); Salvador Allende Gossens, Chilean statesman (1908-1973); Erich Leinsdorf (also known as Landauer), American. Conductor Eastern origin (1912-1993); Georgi Markow, Bulgarian writer (1929-1978); Klaus J. Jacobs, German-Swiss. entrepreneur (1936-2008); Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (1944-1978); Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (1957-2003).
Name days: Felix, Helga, Regula, Maternus, Protus, Hyazint, Amilian, Willebert, Ludwig, Lutz, Kaspar, Bernhard.
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