2023-08-15 22:27:12
Under Wednesday, August 16, the book of history records, among other things:
1743: Boxing champion Jack Broughton drafts the first code of competition rules.
1863: Beginning of the Frankfurt Princely Day (until September 1st), at which federal reform is discussed.
1908: The “Captain of Köpenick”, Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, is pardoned two years after his conviction to a four-year prison sentence and released from prison. The unemployed former prison inmate, dressed in a stolen military uniform, had ordered soldiers out on the street to confiscate the city treasury of the Berlin suburb of Köpenick.
1913: The American Ford Motor Company in Detroit puts the first assembly line (assembly line) into operation.
1918: Attack by three Italian planes on Innsbruck, which fails in Austrian defensive fire.
1928: The US signs arbitration treaties with Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
1933: By changing the law, the government is making it possible to revoke Austrian citizenship as a sanction against acts hostile to the state abroad. This is aimed primarily at emigrated members of the illegal NSDAP.
1948: New Polish and Russian place names are introduced in East Prussia.
1953: The SED party ideologue Anton Ackermann loses his post as director of the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute. In 1956 he was rehabilitated in the course of de-Stalinization.
1953: Putsch in Persia: The Shah and Empress Soraya flee to Baghdad; Mossadegh is in control.
1963: NASA and Soviet Academy of Sciences agree to collaborate on three space projects.
1988: The Gladbeck hostage drama begins. Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner attack a Deutsche Bank branch and take several hostages. On August 17, the two hijacked a bus, shooting a 15-year-old boy. During the pursuit in the Netherlands, a police officer is killed in a collision with a truck. On August 18, the 18-year-old hostage Silke Bischoff was shot dead during a police action on the Autobahn and the men arrested. The drama caused a stir, particularly due to the role of the journalists, who appeared with live interviews on radio and television, and caused a discussion about responsibility and ethics in media reporting that continues to this day.
1998: The court proceedings against the former GDR State Security Minister Erich Mielke are dropped because the 90-year-old is still unable to stand trial.
2003: Libya has officially claimed responsibility for the bombing aboard a US airliner over Lockerbie and has agreed to set up a $2.7 billion compensation fund for the families of the Lockerbie victims.
2018: Public transport city councilor Ulli Sima (SPÖ) announces that eating in the Vienna subway is generally prohibited. From September, the consumption of food will initially be banned in the U6, from January 15, 2019 the ban will be extended to all lines.
birthdays: Menachem Begin, Israel. politician (1913-1992); Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, German actor (1928-2021); Reiner Kunze, German writer (1933); Horst Schender, FPÖ politician (1938); Rocco Granata, Belgian singer, actor and composer of Italian origin (1938); Angela Bassett, US actress (1958); Madonna, US pop singer (1958); Victoria Swarovski, Austria TV presenter and pop singer (1993).
days of death: John Stith Pemberton, US pharmacist and lieutenant colonel; Inventor of “Coca-Cola” (1831-1888); Dorothy West, US writer (1907-1998); Stewart Granger, British-US film actor (1913-1993); Idi Amin Dada, former dictator of Uganda (1928-2003); Aretha Franklin, US soul and rock singer (1942-2018).
name days: Stefan, Rochus, Joachim, Sieglinde, Christian, Theodor, Altfried, Alfred, Arnold.
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