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Under Friday, April 14, the book of history records, among other things:
1028: Heinrich (III), the son of Emperor Konrad II, is crowned King of Germany in Aachen.
1463: The Mayor of Vienna, Wolfgang Holzer, was ordered by Archduke Albrecht VI. quartered. In the fight between Emperor Friedrich III. and his brother Archduke Albrecht VI. for the duchy of Austria, Holzer supported the archduke and began hostilities once morest the emperor.
1783: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Nathan the Wise” premieres in Berlin. The drama places tolerance between religions under the sign of humanity.
1823: The first Donaudampfschifffahrts-AG is constituted.
1918: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Ottokar Czernin-Chudenitz resigns because of the “Sixtus Affair”. Emperor Charles I appoints Count Stephan Burián von Rajecz as his successor, who takes over the office for the second time.
1918: General Foch becomes generalissimo and supreme commander of the allied armies in France.
1943: The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the powerful hallucinogenic effects of the drug LSD when his skin came into contact with the substance during manufacture. He discovered the active ingredient lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as early as 1938 during medical research in the service of the then chemical company Sandoz.
1953: World premiere of Arthur Adamov’s drama “All Against All” in Paris.
1958: The Soviet satellite Sputnik-2 burns up over the West Indies with the dead dog Laika on board.
1988: The Soviet Union signs a treaty ending its intervention in Afghanistan (since 1979), which also stipulates the withdrawal of the Red Army.
2003: Researchers and politicians celebrate the deciphering of the human genome as a milestone in human history.
2003: US troops in Iraq are advancing unopposed into the center of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown.
birthdays: Philip III, King of Spain (1578-1621); Friedrich von Amerling, East. portrait painter (1803-1887); Erich Auer, Austria actor (1923-2004); Adrien Brody, US actor (1973).
days of death: Joseph Lanner, Austria composer (1801-1843); Carl Hagenbeck, German zoologist and animal dealer (1844-1913); Dorothy Squires, British singer (1915-1998).
name days: Valerian, Hadwig, Tiburtius, Lidwina, Maximus, Ernestine, Hedda, Lambert.