2024-09-03 22:14:53
On Wednesday, September 4, the history books recorded:
1024: After the death of Emperor Henry II, Conrad II was elected king. This brought the Salian dynasty to power.
1909: Orville Wright demonstrates his flying machine at the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin.
1939: German forces advanced into East Prussia, cutting off Polish forces in the northern corridor. British bombers attack German naval forces near Emerald Bay and at the mouth of the Elbe for the first time.
1939: German wartime economic laws provided for the means of forced farming and additional war taxes.
1944: British troops occupy Antwerp and the Wehrmacht evacuates Poitiers in central France. Soviet troops occupy Kronstadt in Transylvania. After the armistice was signed, Finnish troops ceased fighting against the Soviet Union.
1974: The United States establishes diplomatic relations with East Germany.
1984: East Germany canceled Honecker’s planned visit to the Federal Republic of Germany in September due to “unworthy” discussions.
1999: Israeli Prime Minister Barak and Palestinian President Arafat signed an agreement on the implementation of the Wai Treaty (which Barak’s predecessor Netanyahu blocked) in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. It stipulates that a final peace settlement must be reached by September 13, 2000.
2009: German director Matthias Hartmann opens his tenure at Vienna’s Burgtheater with the premiere of two parts of Goethe’s Faust. Hartmann replaced Klaus Bachler.
Birthday: Adolf Pickler, Austrian writer (1819-1900); Anton Bruckner, Eastern composer (1824-1896); Karl Seitz, Eastern statesman (1869-1950); Jean-Jacques Lüsche Erl, German painter (1884-1955); Armin Kogler, former Austrian ski jumper (1959).
Days to death: Werner Bergengruen, German writer (1892-1964); Georges Simonon, Belgian writer (1903-1989); Franz Olah, former Austrian ÖGB President and Minister of the Interior (1910-2009 ); Fritz Roebuck, Eastern Statesman (SPÖ) (1913-1994); Hans Gabor, Eastern conductor of Hungarian origin; founder of the Vienna Chamber Opera (1924-1994); Richard Hey ( Richard Hey, German writer (1926-2004); Joan Rivers, American entertainer (1933-2014).
Name day: Ada, Rosalia, Swibert, Irmgard, Iris, Ellentraud, Remocles, Jean, Antonius, Jenny, Rosa, Moses.
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