2023-12-04 23:20:47
On Tuesday, December 5th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: King Frederick IV dissolves the Prussian National Assembly and imposes a constitution.
1853: Vienna Conference on the “Crimean War”: Prussia, England and France strive to resolve the Russian-Turkish conflict.
1863: The first rules drawn up by the British Football Association are published in the magazine “Bell’s Life”.
1868: A new military law is passed for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and general conscription with twelve years of service is introduced.
1918: The Carinthian state assembly decides on armed resistance against invading South Slavic troops.
1928: The Austrian Federal Assembly elects the Christian-Social National Council President Wilhelm Miklas as the successor to Michael Hainisch as Federal President.
1933: With the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution by the 36th US state, Prohibition (since October 28, 1920) is repealed.
1943: Proclamation by Yugoslav Partisan Marshal Tito on the establishment of a provisional parliament and a liberation committee.
1963: The Christian Democratic Prime Minister Aldo Moro formed a center-left government in Italy that remained in office until 1968.
1978: The heads of government of the EC states decide on the European Monetary System in Brussels from January 1, 1979.
1978: NATO defense ministers agree on the introduction of the flying early warning system AWACS.
1988: Boris Becker wins the Masters tournament in New York for the first time.
1993: The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is seriously injured in a letter bomb attack, but his life is saved by emergency surgery. The politician loses three fingers on his left hand. Further letter bombs to the Green Club leader Madeleine Petrovic and the chairman of the Slovenian Article VII cultural association in Styria, Wolfgang Gombocz, were intercepted in time.
2008: The sale of the ailing Austrian airline AUA to the German Lufthansa is finalized.
2008: Former US football star OJ Simpson (61) is sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for armed robbery in Las Vegas. The verdict consists of the minimum sentences for all charges.
2013: The South African national hero and anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95 in his home in Johannesburg after a long illness. South Africa declares national mourning, with commemorations lasting a week. Around 90 current and former heads of state and government take part in the central memorial service. Austria sent Federal Council President Reinhard Todt, who only arrived in Johannesburg a day later.
Birthdays: Julius II, Italian Pope (1443-1513); Henri Gouhier, French philosopher (1898-1994); Johannes “Jopi” Heesters, Dutch-German. actor (1903-2011); Cecil Powell, British nuclear physicist; Nobel Prize 1950 (1903-1969); Alois Brandstetter, Austrian Writer (1938); JJ Cale, US musician (1938-2013).
Days of death: Ferdinand Bruckner, Eastern playwright (1891-1958); Kurt Guggenheim, black writer (1896-1983); Robert Aldrich, US director and producer (1918-1983); Nelson Mandela, South Africa. Politician, anti-apartheid fighter, first black president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1993 (1918-2013).
Name days: Gerald, Arno, Sabbas, Reinhard, Sola, Justinia, Herwig, Abigail, Attala, Hartwig, Niels, Nikolaus.
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