2023-09-08 22:18:57
On Saturday, September 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1513: The Scottish King James IV falls in battle against the English at Flodden Field.
1583: The University of Würzburg was founded by Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn.
1798: Nidwalden’s uprising against the Helvetic Republic is suppressed. French troops loot and destroy Stans.
1813: The “Holy Alliance” against Emperor Napoleon I is concluded between Russia, Austria and Prussia. On October 3rd, Emperor Franz II also concluded a treaty with Great Britain in Teplitz. This creates an alliance against France.
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria confirms the Reichstag’s decision to abolish peasant subordination.
1903: The Engadin Railway is inaugurated in Switzerland with a train journey through the almost six kilometer long tunnel from Preda to Spinas.
1928: TV images are shown publicly for the first time at the Berlin Radio Exhibition.
1943: Allied troops land in the Bay of Salerno and Taranto.
1943: Bert Brecht’s play “Life of Galileo” premieres at the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
1948: The Korean Democratic People’s Republic is proclaimed in Pyongyang and claims ownership of all of Korea.
1968: The largest warship in the world to date, the “John F. Kennedy”, was put into service in Newport.
1983: The CSCE follow-up meeting in Madrid is formally ended following a compromise with Malta.
1988: Due to the suspicion of false testimony, a court application is made for the extradition of former Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz, who then announces that he will resign from his National Council mandate. (In 1990 he was sentenced to a fine of 360,000 schillings because, in the trial against the journalist Alfred Worm, he had “certainly” ruled out having spoken to the Burgenland SP executive board in 1985 about the “brown past” of the ÖVP presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim was elected head of state in 1986.)
1993: The IT conversion in the Austrian tax offices is causing delays in the payment of family allowances.
1993: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signs a document recognizing the State of Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993: In Greece, the conservative government under Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis resigns after losing its parliamentary majority and faces new elections, which it loses.
2003: Two suicide attacks by Palestinian extremists in Israel kill 15 people on a bus and a cafe.
2008: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has to resign following a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Bangkok because of a television cooking show. The judges ruled that the prime minister, who was under pressure because of massive opposition protests, violated the constitution with his TV appearance.
2008: For the first time in its 430-year history, the Spanish Riding School is accepting two women for rider training.
2013: Last-minute turnaround in the Syria conflict: After US President Obama, increasingly isolated on this issue both internationally and at home, has been campaigning for a military strike against Syria for weeks, Russia is breaking the stalemate with a surprising initiative: the government in Damascus is supposed to use its chemical weapons arsenal place under international control and destroy. Head of State Assad agrees, a US attack is off the table for the time being – even when the UN experts in Syria spoke a few days later of clear evidence of the use of the poison gas sarin.
Birthdays: Clemens Brentano, German poet (1778-1842); Leo N. Tolstoy, Russian writer (1828-1910); Max Reinhardt, Eastern actor/director (1873-1943); Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (1908-1950); Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian politician (1918-2012); Daniel Gajdusek, US pediatrician; Nobel Prize 1976 (1923-2008); Markus Wasmeier, former German ski racer (1963); Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and coach (1963); Hans-Peter Steinacher, Eastern. sailors; Olympic champion in 2000 and 2004 (1968).
Days of death: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (1842-1898); Jack Warner, US film producer (1892-1978); Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish writer (1892-1978); Samuel Nathaniel Behrmann, US writer (1893-1973); Ernst H. Kantorowicz, German-US historian (1895-1963); Edward Teller, US physicist of Hungarian origin (“father of the hydrogen bomb”) (1908-2003); Tassilo (Frh. v.) Broesigke, eastern Politician and former President of the Court of Auditors (1919-2003); Robert Opratko, Eastern Kapellmeister (1931-2018); Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian filmmaker (1934-2013).
name days: Othmar, Gorgonius, Peter, Wilfrieda, Orthold, Edgar, Pierre, Bruno, Korbinian.
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