2023-09-01 22:59:15
Under Saturday, September 2, the book of history records, among other things:
1363: Countess Margarethe Maultasch of Tyrol, the last regent of the Meinhardiner family, renounced the government following the death of her son in favor of Duke Rudolf IV of Austria and moved to her palace near Vienna – in today’s 5th district of Vienna – back.
1898: A British-Egyptian army under the command of Lord Herbert Horatio Kitchener wins a decisive victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman in the Sudan. The Mahdi’s empire collapses, Sudan becomes an Anglo-Egyptian condominium.
1913: The Frenchman Célestin Adolphe Pégoud undertakes an inverted flight over Juvisy for the first time in his motorized aircraft “Blériot”.
1918: Heavy British attacks south of Arras force Germans to retreat. The so-called “Siegfried Position”, the battle line from Arras to Reims, is withdrawn.
1933: A non-aggression pact between Italy and the Soviet Union is signed in Rome.
1943: By decree from Hitler, Albert Speer was appointed German Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production. The management of the war economy is withdrawn from the Ministry of Economics and transferred to Speer.
1948: US Secretary of State George Marshall announces negotiations with Britain and France to limit or stop dismantling in occupied Germany.
1958: The first television station in the People’s Republic of China begins operations in Beijing.
1968: The International Philosophers’ Congress (until September 9) is taking place in Vienna with around 3,000 participants from 65 countries.
1978: Thailand legalizes prostitution.
1993: Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization agree to mutual recognition following secret talks in Oslo. (Signing of the Basic Treaty on September 13 in Washington).
1993: Steven Spielberg’s film “Jurassic Park” opens in cinemas.
1998: The “Sir Karl Popper School” begins operations. It is a school experiment to promote gifted students.
1998: A Swiss airliner with 229 people on board crashes off Canada’s east coast. None of the occupants survived the accident.
2003: In Indonesia, leaders of the Islamist terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
2008: Hurricane “Hanna” crosses Haiti, which has just been badly hit by “Gustav”. The result is far more than 500 deaths. “Hanna” also heads for the US coast and hits the states of South and North Carolina as well as Virginia. Directly behind “Hanna” follows “Ike”, which only touches Haiti, but claims 50 lives there, devastates Cuba, and then hits the USA and also kills more than 50 people there. Numerous oil platforms are destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico.
birthdays: Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (1778-1846); Wilhelm Ostwald, German scientist Nobel Prize 1909 (1853-1932); Werner von Blomberg, German General (1878-1946); Alfons Gorbach, Austria statesman, federal chancellor 1961-64, ÖVP chairman (1898-1972); Horace Silver, US jazz musician (1928-2014); Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese. Ex-President (1933-2015); Giuliano Gemma, Italian film actor (1938-2013); John Zorn, US composer and bandleader (1953).
days of death: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, British author (1892-1973); Édouard Peisson, French writer (1896-1963); Erik Frey, German actor (1908-1988); Joana Maria Gorvin, German actress and director (1922-1993).
name days: Ingrid, René, Apollinaris, Wolfsindis, Edelreich, Absolon, Stefan, Nonnosus, Franz U., Emmerich, Oliver.
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