2024-01-10 23:52:51
On Thursday, January 11th, the book of history records, among other things:
1569: First British class lottery approved by Queen Elizabeth I. Proceeds are used to build harbors and fortifications.
1814: The King of Naples, Joachim Murat, breaks away from his brother-in-law, the French Emperor Napoleon I, and forms an alliance with Austria.
1904: The Herero uprising (until 1906) expands in German Southwest Africa. 80,000 members of this Bantu people are driven into the waterless Omaheke steppe by German colonial troops and perish miserably there.
1919: Transylvania is completely occupied by the Romanian army. The annexation was enshrined in a treaty with Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
1919: An aid conference for the war losers meets in Paris. On the initiative of the future US President Herbert Hoover, food deliveries were intended to prevent a famine in Germany from encouraging Bolshevik efforts.
1929: The Central Committee of the CPSU decides to introduce the seven-hour day and the six-day week in the Soviet Union.
1944: Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law and Italian foreign minister from 1936 to 1943, is executed in Verona. In 1943 he voted in the fascist Grand Council for the dismissal of the “Duce”.
1949: Abolition of bread and flour rationing in Austria.
1949: Bertolt Brecht stages his drama “Mother Courage and Her Children” at the German Theater in Berlin.
1949: In Munich, the new Bavarian state parliament building in the Maximilianeum is inaugurated with a ceremony.
1954: There were 32 avalanches in the Großer Walsertal and more in the Montafon, the Klostertal and the Bregenz Forest: 125 people died.
1959: A German Lufthansa Super Constellation crashes while approaching Rio de Janeiro, killing 36 people.
1989: An international conference on banning chemical weapons ends in Paris. The final declaration calls for an agreement on the ban and destruction of these weapons.
2014: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dies at the age of 85. The former military man and politician was in a coma for eight years after a stroke in 2006. Politicians around the world are honoring his services to Israel, while Palestinians are celebrating the death of Sharon, who they consider a war criminal.
2014: Two men are killed by gunfire and a hand grenade explosion in a car on Odoaker Gasse in Vienna-Ottakring. The trigger for the bloody act was a “dispute in the criminal environment”. The trial begins in November against the confessed 35-year-old main perpetrator, who had done profitable business with the two victims with diesel imported into Austria, which was sold directly at gas stations without paying mineral oil tax. Co-accused are an assistant of the accused and his sister.
2014: The renowned journalist, publisher and resistance fighter Fritz Molden dies at the age of 90.
Birthdays: Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, French painter (1684-1745); Elisabeth Löwinger, Austrian actress (1919-1980); Jean Chrétien, Canadian. ex-politician; Premier 1993-2003 (1934); Antonio Seguí, Argent. painter (1934-2022); Helmut Zenker, Eastern Writer and screenwriter (“Kottan Investigates”) (1949-2003); Barbara Prammer, Eastern Politician (1954-2014).
Days of death: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (1449-1494); Oscar Straus, Eastern Operetta composer (1870-1954); Fritz Molden, Eastern Resistance fighter, publisher, publicist (1924-2014); Ariel Sharon, Israel. Politician; 2001-2006 Prime Minister (1928-2014); Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (1940-1999).
Name days: Paulin, Johannes, Hyginus, Tasso, Erhard, Mathilde, Theodosius, Egwin, Ernst, Harald, Thomas.
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