Under Friday, March 3, the book of history records, among other things:
1298: The third part of the collection of medieval canon law, Corpus Iuris Canonici, called Liber Sextus, is promulgated by Pope Boniface VIII.
1638: In the Battle of Rheinfelden, Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, who was in the service of the French, defeated the imperial army in the Thirty Years’ War and captured all of their generals.
1808: French troops commanded by Napoleon’s brother-in-law, Joachim Murat, take Madrid. After the expulsion of the Bourbons, Napoleon’s eldest brother Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. Murat becomes King of Naples on July 15.
1813: In the Treaty of Stockholm, Great Britain ceded the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, which it had conquered in 1810, to Sweden. This is seen as compensation for the property losses suffered by the Swedish Crown Prince and former French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as an ally of the British once morest Napoleon.
1848: In front of the Hungarian Parliament in Pressburg, Ludwig (Lajos) Kossuth delivers his “christening speech of the revolution” once morest “the deadly wind that blows from the lead chambers of the Viennese government system, oppressing, paralyzing, poisoning everything”.
1853: In Düsseldorf, Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony (D minor, op. 120) is premiered in the newly arranged form.
1863: August Herzmansky opens a small general store on Kirchengasse in Vienna’s 7th district, Neubau. In 1897 the new shop was opened on Stiftgasse at the corner of Mariahilferstrasse. Herzmansky dies a year before the opening. The department store closes on July 12, 1997.
1878: The peace treaty of San Stefano ended the Russo-Turkish war that had broken out in 1877. Bulgaria is given semi-sovereign status but remains tributary to the Ottoman Empire.
1903: The US Congress passes an immigration law that limits immigration to 150,000 people a year.
1918: Peace dictate of the Central Powers from Brest-Litovsk: Courland, Livonia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland are separated from Russia, which must also recognize the independence of Finland and Ukraine.
1923: The first edition of the US news magazine “Time”, founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, appears in New York.
1933: The chairman of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thälmann, is arrested. After eleven years of solitary confinement, he was shot on August 18, 1944 in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1938: A delegation of the trade unions, which were forced into illegality by the corporate state, under the Social Democrat Friedrich Hillegeist, offered Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg support in the fight once morest Hitler.
1938: The Howard Hawks film “You Don’t Kiss a Leopard” with Cary Grant in the title role premiered in the USA as one of the most successful comedies of the 1930s.
1938: Standard Oil of California encounters the first commercially important oil well in Saudi Arabia at the Dammam No. 7 well.
1938: The Danish parliament approves the admission of women to the office of parish leader in the state Lutheran church.
1973: The “Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora” (CITES) for the protection of wild animal and plant species is signed in Washington. The agreement drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is primarily intended to prevent trade in wild animals and products derived from them.
1988: A NATO summit ends with a commitment to nuclear deterrence.
1993: A British escapee voluntarily returns to his prison, the 30-year-old was too cold to be free.
1993: The former party chairman and vice chancellor Norbert Steger (overthrown by Jörg Haider in 1986) resigns from the FPÖ.
1998: Vienna’s Mayor Michael Häupl and City Councilor for Culture Peter Marboe announce that the Holocaust memorial will be erected as planned on Vienna’s Judenplatz. Out of consideration for the excavations of the “Or Sarua” synagogue, the concrete cube by British artist Rachel Whiteread has been moved a little.
2003: Österreichische Post AG is officially opening a new mail center in Vienna, the largest in Europe.
2003: Svetozar Marović is elected the first President of the new State Union of Serbia-Montenegro (until 2006) at the constitutive session of the Parliament in Belgrade.
2008: Porsche increases its 30.9 stake in VW by 20 percent for 10 billion euros and thus takes over the majority. There is a row among the Porsche owners.
2008: The tax affair in Liechtenstein spreads to Austria. Those Austrians who have accounts in Liechtenstein are recommended to self-disclose.
2013: The Carinthian state election ends with landslide losses for the Freedom Party with the strongest votes up to that point. The new number one is the SPÖ, which comes to 37.1 percent and clearly distances the FPÖ (16.9 percent). Third strongest force is the ÖVP with 14.4 percent ahead of the Greens with 12.1 percent. The Stronach team celebrates a successful debut and comes with the long-time SPÖ politician Gerhard Köfer to 11.2 percent. With 6.4 percent, the BZÖ manages to enter the state parliament with the downer, a third mandate to have just missed a vote.
2013: The refugees who have been staying in the Votive Church since shortly before Christmas declare their willingness to leave the church following 76 days with several hunger strikes and to move to the Servitenkloster in Vienna-Alsergrund.
birthdays: Charles Sealsfield (aka Karl Anton Postl), Austrian writer (1793-1864); Gyula Count Andrássy the Elder Ä., Aust.-Hung. politician (1823-1890); František Langer, Czech writer (1888-1965); Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist; Nobel Prize 1959 (1918-2007); Gudrun Pausewang, German writer (1928-2020); Günter Stummvoll, Austria. Politician (ÖVP) (1943); Zico (aka Arthur Antunes Coimbra), Brazilian soccer coach (1953); Josef Winkler, Austria author (1953); Miranda (Jane) Richardson, British actress (1958).
days of death: Ernst Scheibelreiter, Austria. writer (1897-1973); Arthur Koestler, Austria Writer (according to other sources March 1st) (1905-1983); Albert Bruce Sabin, US virologist (1906-1993); Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexic. violin virtuoso (1918-1988); Giuseppe di Stefano, Italian tenor (1921-2008); Horst (Werner) Buchholz, German actor (1933-2003); Davide Astori, Italian footballer (or March 4th) (1987-2018).
name days: Friedrich, Tobias, Titian, Kunigunde, Liberat, Kamilla, Florian, Innocent, Gerwin.
