Under Saturday, March 11, the book of history records, among other things:
928: After his brother Tomislav disappeared without a trace, whom he declared dead, Trpimir II became the second king of the Croatians.
1513: Giovanni de Medici, son of the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo I the Magnificent, becomes Pope Leo X. He succeeds Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere).
1793: The premiere of the opera “Eugène, ou la Piété filiale” by Henri Montan Berton will take place at the Paris Opéra-Comique.
1848: The pro-Slavic “Committee of St. Wenceslas of the Year 1848” (Svatováclavský výbor roku 1848), soon renamed the National Committee (Národní výbor), was founded in Prague, demanding the abolition of serfdom and freedom of religion. His petitions are signed by tens of thousands.
1878: Thomas Alva Edison presents his “speaking machine” (phonograph) to the Paris Academy of Sciences.
1908: The French Senate passes a divorce law, according to which a three-year separation from table and bed is sufficient to be legally divorced at the request of a partner.
1918: Large-scale attack by German fighter planes on Paris. Several quarters of the French capital catch fire.
1933: Social Affairs Minister Josef Resch (CS) is resigning from office because he is not prepared to go along with the anti-parliamentary path that the government under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss wants to take.
1933: In Braunschweig, the SA and SS launch the so-called department store storm, a violent action once morest “Jewish department stores”.
1938: After the resignation of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who was demanded by Hitler as an ultimatum, who spoke on the radio with the words “God protect Austria!” After several hours of resistance under massive pressure, Federal President Wilhelm Miklas appoints the National Socialist Arthur Seyss-Inquart as head of government. Hitler orders German troops to invade Austria.
1943: Hitler awarded Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (whom he forced to commit suicide in 1944) with the “Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds for the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross”.
1948: The Czechoslovak UN ambassador Ján Papánek calls in vain on the western powers to condemn the communist takeover in Prague as a coup controlled by the Soviet Union. UN Secretary General Trygve Lie refuses to refer the matter to the Security Council and revokes Papánek’s accreditation.
1978: Two Israeli buses are hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. 32 Israelis are killed in the liberation operation; nine extremists are killed, two captured.
1988: Premiere of the total work of art “Body and Soul” by André Heller in Munich.
1988: A blizzard begins to paralyze life on the east coast of the USA. The massive snowstorm raged for three and a half days. About 400 dead are counted.
1988: The Abdul Aziz Shah Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom of Malaysia with a capacity of 24,000 people, is being completed in Shah Alam.
1994: The Slovakian Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar is recalled by the parliament in Bratislava following a split in his HZDS party. Jozef Moravčík becomes prime minister.
1998: Chile’s ex-dictator General Augusto Pinochet will become a senator for life following his official departure as supreme commander of the armed forces.
2004: In Madrid, during the morning rush hour, ten bombs explode almost simultaneously in several stations and commuter trains, killing around 200 people. The conservative government under Prime Minister José María Aznar initially attributed responsibility to the Basque underground organization ETA, but later the terrorist group Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
2004: Spain rejects the compromise on the European Constitution.
2008: The newly built sports halls and outdoor facilities of the Jewish sports club Hakoah are opened on the property in Vienna’s Prater, which was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938.
birthdays: Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (1818-1910); Alexander Xaver Gwerder, Swiss poet (1923-1952); Agatha Barbara, maltes. Politician, President 1982-87 (1923-2002); Käthe Recheis, Austria writer (1928-2015); Christian Wolff, German actor (1938); Alex Kingston, British actress (1963); David LaChapelle, US photographer and director (1963); Martin Hiden, East Ex-Soccer Player (1973); Didier Drogba, Ivorian ex-soccer player (1978).
days of death: Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, German social reformer, founder of the agricultural cooperative system (1818-1888); Manuel Rojas, Chile. writer (1896-1973); Franz Rauscher, Austria mechanics, educators and politicians; SPÖ; 1946-1947 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Asset Protection and Economic Planning (1900-1988); Siegfried Rauch, German actor (1932-2018); Karl Lehmann, German bishop (Mainz) (1936-2018).
name days: Rosina, Ulrich, Eulogius, Theresia, Constantine, Heraclius, Wolfram, Heinrich, Alram.
