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1813: Austria declares war on France.
1848: Emperor Ferdinand I, who fled Vienna for Innsbruck on May 17, returns to the capital with his court.
1858: The first message is sent from Newfoundland to Valentia Island off Ireland via the newly laid transatlantic cable.
1863: The Swiss engineer Niklaus Riggenbach receives patent number 59625 for a rack railway system in France. From 1869 to 1871, together with the engineers Ferdinand Adolf Naeff and Olivier Zschokke, he built the Vitznau-Rigi railway, Europe’s first mountain railway with cogwheel drive.
1898: The United States annexes the independent Republic of Hawaii.
1908: The first Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line in Detroit. The so-called “Tin Lizzie” was the best-selling car in the world until February 17, 1972, when the VW Beetle took this title away from it.
1923: After the Cuno government resigned, Gustav Stresemann (DVP) formed a grand coalition of Social Democrats, Centre, Democrats and the German People’s Party.
1948: The former German Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands, General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen, is sentenced to twelve years in prison in Arnhem.
1948: Before the Allied Council in Vienna, the Deputy Soviet High Commissioner, Generaloberst Scheltow, emphasized the right of the occupation authorities to arrest Austrian citizens, including state officials, without prior notification to the Austrian authorities. (Response to the federal government’s protests against the arrest of Anton Marek, a top Interior Ministry official).
1953: The USSR detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
1953: The Soviet occupation forces in Austria lifted censorship within their zone.
1978: China and Japan sign a peace and friendship treaty in Beijing.
2003: In France, temperatures have already reached over 40 degrees for the ninth day. In Switzerland, the historic heat record is broken with 41.5 degrees.
2003: The computer worm “Lovesan” infects Microsoft computer systems worldwide. A US student is said to have spread it.
birthdays: Thomas Bewick, English woodcutter/book illustrator (1753-1828); Oskar Homolka, Austro-US-America. actor (1898-1978); Sepp Nordegg, East stage designer and inventor (1913-1984); Franz Posch, Austria Folk musicians and creators of music programs; “My dearest white” (1953).
days of death: George Stephenson, British engineer (1781-1848); Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (1854-1928); Sigmund Natzler, Austria actor (1862-1913); Franz Radziwill, German painter and graphic artist (1895-1983); Jean-Michel Basquiat, US-amer. (graffiti) artist (1960-1988); Friso of Orange-Nassau, ndl. Prince (1968-2013).
name days: Hilaria, Digna, Radegunde, Pontian, Eusebius, Hippolytus, Cassian, Clara, Andrew, Innozenz, James.
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