1193: King Richard I the Lionheart of England is presented to Emperor Heinrich VI in Speyer. delivered. Duke Leopold V is to receive half of the ransom.
1828: In the concert hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Franz Schubert gives his first and only public concert.
1898: The Reichstag adopts the First Fleet Law. This marks the start of the Anglo-German naval arms race.
1933: The sound film director Fritz Lang, originally from Vienna, emigrated to Paris. The next day his film “The Testament of Dr. Mabuse” was banned in Germany.
1933: The German Catholic bishops lifted the ban on NSDAP membership for believers following Hitler “publicly and solemnly” acknowledged the inviolability of the doctrine of faith and the full validity of church contracts.
1973: Actor Marlon Brando refuses an Oscar for his role as Godfather in protest at the discriminatory treatment of Native Americans.
1973: Opening of the first European environmental protection conference in Vienna.
1983: A team of doctors from Innsbruck is the first in the world to perform a simultaneous liver and bone marrow transplant.
1988: Chancellor Franz Vranitzky arrives in Saudi Arabia for an official visit.
1993: Anita Wachter from Schruns wins the women’s overall alpine skiing world cup in Åre (Sweden).
1993: The second round of the French parliamentary elections confirms the victory of the bourgeois opposition. Socialist Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy announces his resignation.
2003: Iraq War: US Air Force launches massive raids on Baghdad using bunker-busting bombs.
2003: The find of fragments of previously unknown texts of the Nibelungenlied, allegedly from the 12th century, is announced at Zwettl Abbey in Lower Austria. However, experts later doubted both the dating and the assignment to the Nibelungenlied.
2008: A spokesman for the US Federal Police (FBI) announces that Bert Nussbaumer, a man from Upper Austria who was kidnapped in November 2006 with four Americans in Iraq, is dead. The employee of a private security company was identified by his DNA.
birthdays: Maxim Gorki, Russian writer (1868-1936); Rudolf Serkin, Austrian/US pianist (1903-1991); Marko M. Feingold, Austria entrepreneurs; from 1979 President of the Jewish Community in Salzburg (1913-2019); Edwin Zbonek, East. Director (1928-2006); Dianne Wiest, US actress and theater director (1948); Robert Wiesner, Austria Journalist (1953).
days of death: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian. Composer (1873-1943); Walter Reisch, east. film director (1903-1983); Reinhard Medek, Viennese architect (1944-2003); Wolfgang Schulz, east. Flutist (1946-2013).
name days: Johannes, Guntram, Johanna, Malchus, Gundelind, Ingberg, Wilhelm, Janine, Ingo, Adelheid.