September 16, 1963: Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore merge to form the Federation of Malaysia

2023-09-15 22:46:54

On Saturday, September 16th, the book of history records, among other things:

1668: John II Casimir, King of Poland, abdicates.
1848: With a narrow majority, the Frankfurt National Assembly withdraws its decision that Prussia must stop the measures to implement its arbitrary armistice with Denmark. In this way, the Paulskirche bows to Prussia’s de facto superiority and suffers a considerable loss of reputation.
1848: Imperial Administrator Archduke Johann appoints a new Imperial Ministry chaired by the Austrian Anton von Schmerling.
1928: In Geneva, Germany and the Allies reached a fundamental agreement to begin negotiations on the evacuation of the Rhineland and the question of reparations.
1938: The Sudeten German Party (SdP) is dissolved by the Prague government and a wanted poster is issued once morest its leader Henlein.
1938: Jean Anouilh’s play “The Ball of Thieves” premieres at the Théatre des Arts in Paris.
1963: Chancellor Gorbach hands over the newly adapted grand hotel in Vienna to General Director Dr. Eklund as the official headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA).
1963: Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore join together to form the Federation of Malaysia.
1978: 25,000 dead in a severe earthquake in northeast Iran.
2003: The federal government entrusts the former mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, with the leadership of the Federal Armed Forces Reform Commission.
2013: A poacher caught by the Cobra special unit shoots three police officers and a Red Cross employee during roadblocks near Annaberg. The 55-year-old then barricaded himself on his farm near Melk, which was besieged by the police for hours while the man repeatedly fired shots. When the officers finally break into the building, they discover the body of the transport operator in a secret room, who set fire to the hiding place and shot himself. The man owned hundreds of weapons and hunting trophies, most of which can be attributed to burglaries.

Birthdays: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author; Nobel Prize 1939 (1888-1904); Alexander Korda, British-Hungarian. film director (1893-1956); Gwen Bristow, US writer (1903-1980); Friedrich Torberg, eastern writer (1908-1979); Félicien Marceau, French-Belgian. writer (1913-2012); Lee Kuan Yew, founder of Singapore (1923-2015); Oskar Lafontaine, German politician (1943); Richard Marx, US singer and songwriter (1963); Alexander Vinokurov, former Kazakh. Cyclist (1973).
Days of death: Sheb Wooley, US country singer (1921-2003); André Volkonsky, Black composer (1933-2008); Horst Bosetzky, German sociologist and writer (1938-2018).
Name days: Edith, Cornelius, Cyprian, Ludmilla, Eugenius, Euphemia, Eugenie, Lucia.

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