2024-10-10 22:34:00
On Friday, October 11th, the book of history records, among other things:
1529: First Turkish siege of Vienna by Sultan Süleyman II (“Soliman the Magnificent”): The attackers’ heaviest assault on the city is repelled.
1634: On the night of October 12th, the marsh island of Alt-Nordstrand off the Dutch coast went under in the hurricane, killing 6,408 of 8,600 residents.
1899: When the Republic of Transvaal declared war on the British Crown, the Boer War began in South Africa (until 1902).
1914: Austro-Hungarian troops sack the town and fortress of Przemyśl.
1919: The airline “Handley Page Transport” is offering passengers on the London-Paris route pre-packaged lunches with cold dishes for the first time for the price of three shillings.
1924: Arthur Schnitzler’s “Comedy of Seduction” premieres at Vienna’s Burgtheater.
1944: Escaping Serbian Chetnik units that had fought against the communist partisans were massacred by Ustasha troops in Croatia, despite German promises of protection.
1944: Howard Hawks’ film “To Have and Have Not” premieres in the USA. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart appear in front of the camera together for the first time.
1949: The Belgian Christian Socialists decide to hold a referendum on the return of King Leopold III, whose behavior during the German occupation during the Second World War is controversial.
1949: Wilhelm Pieck is elected President of the German Democratic Republic by the People’s Chamber in East Berlin.
1974: India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is initiating a change in economic policy with an extensive government reshuffle.
1984: Kathy Sullivan is the first female astronaut to undertake a three-hour spacewalk from the US space shuttle “Challenger”.
1989: In the GDR, the SED Politburo indicated in a statement that it was thinking about the wave of refugees and protests for the first time.
2004: At a hearing, the Committee for Fundamental Freedoms in the European Parliament narrowly rejected the Italian Rocco Buttiglione as EU Commissioner. He had one as EU Commissioner. This caused a stir with conservative views on the role of women and homosexuality (“sin”).
2009: General Motors (GM) is selling the luxury off-road vehicle brand Hummer to the Chinese mechanical engineering company Sichuan Tengzhong. This is the first time the Chinese have taken over a Western car brand.
2019: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his reconciliation policy with his neighbor and long-time arch-enemy Eritrea.
Birthdays: Friedrich Bergius, German chemist; Nobel Prize 1931 (1884-1949); Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, US politician and human rights activist; 1933-1945 First Lady (1884-1962); Art Blakey, US jazz musician (1919-1990); Liselotte powder, black actress (1929); Sascha Hehn (aka Alexander Josef Alberto H.), German actor (1954).
Days of death: Jan Ritter Žižka von Trocnov, Bohemian. Hussite leader (around 1370-1424); James Prescot Joule, British physicist (1818-1889); Karl A. Gjellerup, Danish. Writer; Nobel Prize 1917 (1857-1919); Theodor Danegger, Austrian opera singer and actor (1891-1959); Erich Schenk, Eastern. Musicologist (1902-1974).
Name days: Bruno, Guntmar, Ethelburg, Burkhard, Nikosius, Jakob, Rudolf, Alexander, Bibiane, Edda.
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