2023-04-29 22:23:50
Under Sunday, April 30, the book of history records, among other things:
1803: The United States buys the territory of Louisiana from France for 60 million francs.
1848: Piedmontese troops defeat the Austrians at Pastrengo.
1913: The Berlin police bans the workers’ parades on May 1st.
1913: The first inaugural meeting of the Österreichischer Werkbund (ÖWB), founded in 1912, takes place. It is an economic-cultural association of artists, architects, entrepreneurs and craftsmen. The aim of the Werkbund movement is the interaction of fine arts, architecture and crafts as well as the promotion of quality craftsmanship.
1923: “Daimler Airways” begins regular scheduled air traffic between Berlin and London.
1943: The Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony is established. By the end of the war in 1945, more than 50,000 people were killed there, including Anne Frank, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl who was abducted from the Netherlands and became famous for her diary.
1943: British military planes drop 840 tons of bombs over Essen.
1948: At the Bogota Conference (until May 2nd) the charter of the “Organization of American States” is signed. The pact only comes into force after ratification by two-thirds of the signatory states on December 13, 1951.
1963: The 963 meter long bridge over the Fehmarnsund is opened to traffic.
1973: Nixon advisers Harry Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean and US Attorney General Richard Kleindienst are resigning over their involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1988: The new DDSG flagship “MS Mozart” sets sail on its maiden voyage. With a length of 120.6 m and a width of 22.8 m, the “MS Mozart” is the largest river passenger ship in the world. It offers space for 239 passengers and is used on the Vienna-Passau-Budapest-Vienna route.
1993: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), whose employee Tim Berners-Lee developed the “www” (World Wide Web), releases the source code of the software on the Internet and thus lays the foundation for private and commercial development of the Internet.
1993: Knife attack on Monica Seles, the world number one in women’s tennis, in Hamburg. The mentally disturbed perpetrator pretends to be a follower of Steffi Graf, whom he wanted to help return to first place in the world rankings.
1993: In the second attempt, the Polish government takes the parliamentary hurdle of privatizing state-owned companies.
1998: Israel is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the state with military parades and festivals.
2003: The so-called Middle East Quartet – USA, UNO, EU and Russia – hands over the peace roadmap (“Roadmap”), which should lead to the establishment of a sovereign and viable Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by 2005.
2003: 14 years after the Lockerbie attack, Libya as a state takes responsibility for the deaths of 270 people.
2008: The government appoints constitutional judge Gerhart Holzinger as the new President of the Constitutional Court. The 60-year-old succeeds Karl Korinek.
birthdays: Max Skladanowsky, German inventor/film producer (1863-1939); Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (1883-1923); Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (1893-1946); Hans Jürgen Diedrich, German actor (1923-2012); Verona Pooth, German moderator, entrepreneur and model (1968); Heinz Kröpfl, Austria Writer (1968).
days of death: Édouard Manet, French Painter (1832-1883); Muddy Waters, US blues musician (1915-1983); Cyrill Tchimorin, ex. sda-chief editor (1922-2003); Nisar Kabbani, sir. Poet (1923-1998); Liane Augustin, east. chanson singer (1928-1978); Friedrich Kallina, east. Theater director (1930-1993).
name days: Pius, Rosamund, Quirinus, Hildegard, Eutropius, Katharina, Maxentia, Josef C., Heimo, Silvio, Tamara.
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