2023-09-28 22:50:47
On Friday, September 29th, the book of history records, among other things:
1513: After crossing the Isthmus of Panama, the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific, which he called the South Seas.
1818: Beginning of the Aachen Congress (until November 22nd) of the Holy Alliance, at which France achieves the withdrawal of occupying troops by November 30th and a reduction in war compensation.
1853: After a Russian corps invaded the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia. Beginning of the three-year Crimean War.
1913: Turkish-Bulgarian Peace of Constantinople: Bulgaria must return Adrianople.
1918: After the collapse of the Western Front, the German Supreme Command demands an immediate ceasefire offer to the Entente.
1918: England and France sign an armistice treaty in Salonika with Bulgaria, which was allied with the Central Powers.
1923: The British mandate begins in Palestine.
1938: Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini sign the “Munich Agreement”, which stipulates Czechoslovakia’s cession of the Sudetenland to Germany.
1948: The Western powers turn to the UN Security Council regarding the Soviet blockade measures in Berlin.
1963: Pope Paul VI opens the second session of the Council of Ministers appointed by his predecessor John XXIII in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. convened by the Second Vatican Council.
1968: The Greek military junta, which seized power in a coup in 1967, enforces an authoritarian constitution in a controversial referendum.
1988: With the successful launch of the space shuttle “Discovery”, the USA is resuming its manned space program.
1988: United Nations peacekeepers are awarded the Nobel Prize.
2008: The Icelandic state takes over the majority of Glitnir Bank, the country’s third largest financial institution. The measure is described as “temporary”, but at the same time Kaupthing Bank announces that it does not need any help. Not only the two banks, but also the country’s third major bank, Landsbankinn, are now state-owned. Iceland, which has a population of 300,000, needs billions in aid to avert national bankruptcy.
2013: The National Council election brings losses for the SPÖ and ÖVP as well as gains for the Freedom Party and the Greens. The Stronach team made it into the National Council on their first attempt, as did the NEOS party, while the BZÖ had to leave parliament. Specifically, 26.8 percent (-2.4) voted for the SPÖ, 24 percent (-2) for the People’s Party, 20.5 percent (+3) for the Freedom Party and 12.4 percent (+2) for the Greens. The Stronach team received 5.7 percent of the votes cast and the NEOS five. The BZÖ is denied a return of 3.5 percent (-7.2).
Birthdays: Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian painter (1518-1594); François Boucher, French painter (1703-1770); Horatio Nelson, British admiral (1758-1805); Stanley Kramer, US film director (1913-2001); Gerhard Stoltenberg, German politician (1928-2001); Wim Kok, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister 1994-2002 (1938-2018); Lech Wałęsa, Polish trade unionist/politician, Nobel Peace Prize 1983 (1943); Kevin Durant, US basketball player (1988).
Days of death: Marie Geistinger, Eastern People’s actress (1828-1903); Rudolf Diesel, German engine designer (1858-1913); Alfred Krauss, Eastern Officer, general, writer and member of the Reichstag (1862-1938); Ernst Reuter, German politician (1889-1953); Tatjana Gsovsky, Russian-German choreographer (1901-1993); Otis Rush, US blues musician (1934-2018); Cora Pongracz, Eastern Photographer (1943-2003).
Name days: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Lothar, Michaela, Raphaela, Gabriela, Johannes, Karl, Konrad.
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