2023-09-13 22:09:00
On Thursday, September 14th, the book of history records, among other things:
1683: Turkish siege: Emperor Leopold I returns from Krems to Vienna on the Danube and enters the city through the Stubentor, where Bishop Leopold Graf Kolonitz (1686 cardinal) celebrates a thanksgiving service in St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
1878: The first German football club is founded in Hanover.
1918: In his peace note “To All”, Emperor Charles I proposes negotiations for a mutually agreed peace. The German Emperor Wilhelm II feels ignored and speaks of a “serious threat to the alliance”.
1953: The second so-called Kinsey report on “women’s sexual behavior” is published in the USA.
1958: The first meeting between the French Prime Minister General de Gaulle and the West German Chancellor Adenauer took place in Colombey les Deux Églises.
1983: 13 occupants of a Hungarian holiday bus die near Graz (cause: brake failure).
1988: From the approximately 1,500-year-old final resting place of a warrior and priest of the Mochica culture in Peru, the largest gold and jewel treasure in terms of quality and quantity ever found in a grave in the Western world has been recovered.
2003: In a referendum in Estonia, 67 percent voted for the northernmost Baltic republic to join the EU.
2003: In a referendum, the Swedes voted 56.2 percent once morest the government’s support for the introduction of the euro.
2003: The fifth WTO ministerial conference failed due to the dispute between industrialized, developing and emerging countries over the issues. Cancún should provide the roadmap for further negotiations to liberalize world trade.
Birthdays: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, President of Guatemala (1913-1971); Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (1928-2001); Beppo Mauhart, Eastern Entrepreneur, ÖFB President 1984-2002 (1933-2017); Elfriede Karl, former Austrian Politician (1933); Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and writer (1938-2004); Josef Pröll, former Austrian Politicians and Ministers (1968); Amy Winehouse, British singer (1983-2011).
Date of death: Walter Davy, Eastern Director/actor (1924-2003).
Name days: Irmgard, Notburga, Cornelia, Hans, Johannes, Eberhard, Katharina, Rupert, Cyprian, Viktor.
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