September 24, 1869: Gold speculation causes the first “Black Friday” on New York’s Wall Street

2024-09-23 22:21:42

Under Tuesday, September 24, the book of history records, among other things:

774: The first Salzburg Cathedral, built under Bishop Virgil, is inaugurated.
1789: The Supreme Court of the United States is created by the Federal Judiciary Act.
1869: Gold speculation causes a “Black Friday” for the first time on New York’s Wall Street.
1889: The Utrecht Church, whose members are now Old Catholics, rejects, among other things, the Pope’s universal teaching and jurisdictional primacy.
1914: In the Battle of the Aisne in France, two British pilots direct artillery fire via ground-to-air radio for the first time.
1919: In Vienna, the state governments of German Bohemia, the Sudetenland and South Moravia are dissolved.
1929: The novel “The Little Passion” by Ernst Wiechert is published.
1929: By government decree, the Soviet Union abolished Saturday and Sunday and shortened the week to four working days and one day of rest in order to increase production. In 1939, this calendar reform was replaced by the 7-day week.
1939: In Berlin, the ratification documents of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of August 23 are exchanged.
1944: The Hungarian regent Miklos von Horthy secretly sends an armistice delegation to Moscow.
1944: Hitler signs the last law in his capacity as Reich Chancellor, the “Law Amending and Supplementing the Defense Law”.
1959: The German writer and graphic artist Günter Grass publishes his first novel “The Tin Drum”.
1964: Willi Stoph succeeds the late Otto Grotewohl as Prime Minister of the GDR.
1964: A second pass agreement with a term of twelve months is signed in East Berlin.
1964: The Jordanian military government resigns, and bloody fighting between the army and Palestinians continues in Amman and Irbid.
1969: The negotiating committee of the social partners agrees on the gradual introduction of the 40-hour working week.
1979: Former Soviet figure skating world champions and Olympic pairs champions Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov are asking for political asylum in Switzerland.
1989: The first nationwide meeting of the GDR opposition takes place in Leipzig.
1999: Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti is acquitted in the first instance in the trial for the murder of a journalist.
2004: A major fire destroys the building complex of the Schuh-Ski-Haus in the “Copa Cagrana” leisure area in Vienna’s 22nd district. Three years later, three suspects are arrested for arson.
2019: The US Congress is launching an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump for abuse of power. The Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, are justifying the investigation with the suspicion that Trump, in a telephone call with the new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, linked the release of aid funds to the delivery of compromising information about the son of the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Birthdays: Grigori Prince Potemkin, Russian politician (1739-1791); Ismet Inönü, Turkish politician (1884-1973); Horst Winter, German-Austrian pop singer (1914-2001); Andrzej Panufnik, British composer of Polish origin (1914-1991); Francisco García Pavón, Spanish writer (1919-1989); Willy Kralik, Austrian radio presenter (1929-2003); Manfred Wörner, German politician and NATO Secretary General (1934-1994); Dieter Schwarz, German entrepreneur; owner of the “Schwarz Group” and founder of the “Lidl discount chain” (1939); Anneliese Rohrer, Austrian journalist and author (1944); Andreas Aigner, Austrian Rally driver (1984).
Deaths: Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (1798-1834); Hugo Thimig, German-Austrian actor (1854-1944); Carl Laemmle, German/US film producer (1867-1939); Pierre Emmanuel, French poet and philosopher (1916-1984); Richard Nowotny, solo dancer and ballet master of the Vienna State Opera (1926-2014); Ruth Niehaus, German actress and director (1928-1994); Françoise Sagan, French writer (1935-2004).
Name days: Rupert, Mercedes, Virgil, Gerhard, Robert, Gerd, Giselher, German, Theodora, Hermann.

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