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1859: Premiere of the 1st Piano Concerto in D minor by Johannes Brahms – with the composer on the piano – in Hanover.
1904: The small Norwegian town of Ålesund, built of wood, burns down completely, leaving 12,000 people homeless.
1914: For the first time, an airmail service to Heligoland was put into operation with a Zeppelin, the airship “Sachsen”.
1924: Great Britain gets its first Labor government: the socialist Ramsay MacDonald, who is dependent on the parliamentary support of the Liberals, replaces Baldwin.
1924: Konrad Adenauer is elected President of the Prussian State Council.
1934: The opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” by Dmitri Shostakovich premieres in Leningrad. Two years later, the work was condemned by Stalin as “chaotic” because of the unusual instrumental combinations, and the composer then fell from grace.
1944: Allied troops land south of Rome in the area of Anzio and Nettuno.
1979: Ali Salameh, the alleged ringleader of the massacre carried out by Palestinians at the 1972 Munich Olympics, is the victim of a bomb attack in Beirut.
2004: The Indian government agrees with separatist leaders in Kashmir to end bloodshed in the Himalayan region.
2009: A woman is killed and seven people are injured in a pile-up on the A22 near Korneuburg in Lower Austria. A contributing cause is said to be smoke from smoke hand grenades from the Federal Army, which was conducting a night training demonstration off the Danube bank motorway. The army trainer, several soldiers and two car drivers have to answer in court.
2009: In China, three people were sentenced to death and several others were sentenced to life in prison in the contaminated milk powder scandal. Six newborns died in 2008 and around 300,000 children became seriously ill due to milk products containing the chemical melamine.
2019: The European Court of Justice is repealing the Good Friday regulation in force in Austria, according to which only Protestant Christians have the day off work. The judges ruled that a paid holiday should not only be granted to individual religious groups. After much back and forth, the coalition also abolished the free Good Friday for Protestant Christians. Instead, a “personal holiday” will be introduced. An employee may take time off on this day without the employer’s consent, but the day must be taken out of the vacation quota.
Birthdays: August Strindberg, Swedish poet (1849-1912); Else Lasker-Schuler, German writer (1869-1945); Charles Langbridge Morgan, British writer (1894-1958); George Balanchine, US choreographer (1904-1983); Sithu U Thant, Burmese. UN Secretary General (1909-1974); Jay Jay Johnson, US jazz musician (1924-2001); Erika Runge, German writer/director (1939); Helmut Rauch, Eastern Nuclear physicist, long-time head of the Austrian Atomic Institute. universities (1939-2019); Angela Winkler, German actress (1944); Peter Pilz, Eastern Author and ex-politician (1954); Linda Blair, US actress (1959).
Days of death: Johann Gebhard Wölfle, Eastern. Dialect poet and photographer (1848-1904); Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (1853-1919); Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and theater director (1910-1994); Aristotelis “Telly” Savalas, US actor (1924-1994); Fred Bertelmann, German singer/actor (1925-2014); Josef “Sepp” Walcher, Austrian Alpine skier (1954-1984).
Name days: Vincent, Elisabeth, Anastasius, Walter, Dietlinde, Gaudenz, Dominic, Irene, Timotheus.
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