2023-09-20 22:17:13
On Thursday, September 21st, the book of history records, among other things:
1893: Gerhart Hauptmann’s drama “The Biberpelz” premieres at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
1898: In China, the Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu-hsi) deposes her nephew, Emperor Guangxu (Kuang-hsü), and overrides his reforms. The emperor lived as a prisoner in the summer palace near Beijing for ten years until his death.
1903: The American Mutoscope and Biograph Co. secured the copyright for the first two westerns in film history, which were released in 1904 as “Kit Carson” and “The Pioneers”.
1938: Czechoslovakia cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany due to the Munich Dictate.
1983: Motorola’s “Dynatac 8000X”, the world’s first commercial mobile phone, is introduced. It weighs just under 800 g, measures 33 x 4.5 x 8.9 cm, costs $3,995 and has a talk time of around an hour. Motorola has been working on development since 1973.
1988: After the brutal suppression of the democracy movement, coup leader General Saw Maung is proclaimed by the military as the new Burmese head of state. The junta calls itself the “State Council for the Restoration of Law and Order.”
1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolves the Soviet-era parliament; The majority of MPs, led by their leader Ruslan Khasbulatov, view the decision as a violation of the constitution and ignore it.
1998: Several US television channels broadcast the four-hour video recording of President Bill Clinton’s testimony on the Lewinsky affair.
2013: Fighters from the Islamist Shabaab militia attack a shopping center in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, shooting wildly and taking numerous hostages. It takes five days until Kenyan security forces conquer the complex in bloody battles and kill or arrest the hostage takers. The result is catastrophic: at least 61 civilians are killed, including 16 foreigners, six security forces and five of the attackers die.
2018: André Heller announces that he will take over the Vienna Urania Puppet Theater. The long-time director Manfred Müller presents this solution together with the universal artist following he had previously announced that the Punch and Judy show would have to close with his upcoming retirement.
Birthdays: Heinrich Wille, Eastern Politician (ÖVP) (1938-2018); Reinhard Marx, German Catholic. theologian (1953); Maggie Grace, US actress (1983).
Days of death: Charles V, Habsburg. Emperor and founder of the Spanish Empire (1500-1558); Henry Koster (aka Hermann Kosterlitz), German-US film director (1905-1988); Peter Vogel, German actor (1936-1978); Adolf Knoll, Eastern former footballer (1938-2018); Florence Griffith-Joyner, US sprinter, Olympic champion (1959-1998).
Name days: Matthäus, Jonas, Maura, Gerulf, Debora, Iphigenia, Lorenz, Markus, Castor.
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