Under Friday, March 10, the book of history records, among other things:
1098: After the assassination of Thoros, ruler of Edessa, the crusader Baldwin of Boulogne, whom he adopted, becomes count of Edessa and founds the first crusader state.
1528: The Reformation theologian Balthasar Hubmaier is burned at the stake in Vienna.
1793: Revolutionary tribunals are set up in France, whose verdicts can no longer be appealed. In terms of legal history, this gives rise to a third power, the modern judiciary.
1813: The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donates the Order of the Iron Cross as a war decoration for special services during the wars of liberation once morest France.
1838: Saverio Mercadante’s opera “Le Due Illustri Rivali” premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
1848: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is ratified by the United States Senate. Mexico will follow with ratification on May 19.
1913: British supporters of women’s suffrage set fire to a London train station.
1918: The Soviet government moves its headquarters from Petrograd to Moscow.
1918: In Palestine, fighting between Turkish and British troops intensifies.
1923: The Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg becomes “chief editor” of the NSDAP organ “Völkischer Beobachter”.
1923: The Spanish football club FC Villarreal is founded.
1938: Hitler has the Austrian National Socialists instructed to prepare themselves for a “fighting confrontation with the Schuschnigg regime”. In a demarche by the German embassy in Vienna, the cancellation of the announced referendum on Austria’s independence is demanded.
1943: During a British air raid on Munich, the Residenz, the National Museum and the State Library are badly hit.
1948: Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the founder of the state and first President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and the only non-Communist member of the government, is found dead under the windows of his offices in Prague’s Czernin Palace.
1963: The world premiere of the opera “Il Re cervo or The Wanderings of Truth” by Hans Werner Henze takes place in Kassel.
1978: US President Jimmy Carter signs the new Atomic Energy Act in Washington. In particular, it provides for strict requirements for the delivery of enriched uranium to European countries.
1993: At the start of the Noricum trial once morest former Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz, ex-National Council President Leopold Gratz and ex-Interior Minister Karl Blecha, the charge of abuse of office was expanded to include a threat to neutrality.
1993: After severe turbulence, the Swiss parliament elected the Social Democrat Ruth Dreifuss to the seven-member Federal Council (government) and took over the interior department. Her party friend, the union leader Christiane Brunner, had previously failed due to resistance from the bourgeois parliamentary majority.
1998: Federal Chancellor Viktor Klima, the chairman of the conference of state governors Franz Schausberger, the chairman of the association of cities Michael Häupl and the president of the association of municipalities Franz Romeder sign the agreement on the consultation mechanism, which is intended to regulate the financial relationships between the federal government, the states and the municipalities.
2003: The Palestinian Parliament decides to create the post of prime minister. President Yasser Arafat retains the authority to set guidelines. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will be prime minister.
birthdays: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503-1564); Domingos Antonio de Sequeira, Portuguese painter (1768-1837); Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (1788-1857); Jakob Wassermann, German writer (1873-1934); Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke, US jazz musician (1903-1931); Val Logsdon Fitch, US physicist; Nobel Prize 1980 (1923-2015); Johannes Peter “Hans” Riegel, German-Austrian Entrepreneur (“Haribo”) (1923-2013); Sharon Stone, US film actress (1958); Eva Herzigová, Czech model (1973); Sonim Son, Japanese-Korean. Singer and Actress (1983).
days of death: Bruno Kittel, German conductor (1870-1948); Jan Masaryk, Czechosl. politician (1886-1948); Zelda Fitzgerald, British writer (1900-1948); Robert Siodmak, US film director (1900-1973); Guido Wieland, Austria actor (1906-1993); Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (1909-1993); Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (1927-2018); Alfred Reiterer, Austria actor (1934-2008); Andy Gibb, English Pop Musician (1958-1988).
name days: Emil, Gustav, Henriette, Klodwig, Alexander, John Ogilvie, Attala, Makarius, (40 Martyrs).
