2023-07-06 22:09:43
Under Friday, July 7, the book of history records, among other things:
1438: With the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, King Charles VII severely limits the papal influence on the French Church. The king thus secures a say and confirmation right when filling church offices.
1683: 15,000 Tartars cross the Leitha as a fast advance guard of the Ottoman troops. Emperor Leopold I and Empress Eleonore Magdalena left Vienna and went to Linz with the court.
1718: The son of Tsar Peter the Great, Alexei, dies in St. Petersburg, probably as a result of the torture ordered by his father.
1898: The US Congress ratifies the annexation of the former kingdom of Hawaii, whose last Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown.
1913: The British House of Commons adopts the “Home Rule” proposal for more self-determination for Ireland.
1918: On the western front, strong American units attack the German positions at Château-Thierry.
1918: A severe cholera epidemic breaks out in Bessarabia.
1933: By decree of the German Reich Ministry of the Interior, all mandates of the SPD (already banned on June 22) in the Reichstag, the state parliaments and municipal councils are declared to have expired.
1948: The Council of Ministers decides on a special tax to cover the costs of the occupation.
1948: The Presidium of the Romanian National Assembly revokes the Romanian citizenship of King Michael I, who was forced to abdicate and was driven into exile in December 1947.
1978: With the votes of the sole governing SPÖ, the National Council passes the “Act on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy” in Austria.
1978: Because of the truck tax that came into force on July 1, around 300 Austrian freight carriers are blocking trucks at almost all border crossings (4th to 7th)
1978: Britain grants independence to its former protectorate, the Solomon Islands.
1998: The UN General Assembly in New York grants the Palestinians additional privileges in all debates and conferences.
1998: Nigerian President Moshood Abiola, elected in 1993 but prevented from taking office by the military and imprisoned, dies in prison of heart failure. Serious unrest then broke out.
2003: President Vicente Fox’s National Action Party is defeated in the general elections in Mexico. The former state party PRI (Party of the Institutional Revolution) achieves victory.
2008: ÖVP leader Wilhelm Molterer ends the coalition with the SPÖ with the words “Enough” and thus triggers new elections – which the ÖVP later loses.
birthdays: Heinrich Frh. Ferstel, East Architect (1828-1883); August Heinrich Euler, German aviation pioneer (1868-1957); Roberto Caamaño, Argent. pianist (1923-1999); Carlos Thompson (actually Mundin Schaffter), Swiss-Argent. actor and author (1923-1990); Patricia Hitchcock, US actress and film producer British origin (1928-2021); Martin Lüttge, German film actor (1943-2017); Salvatore “Toto” Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter, songwriter and singer (1943); Luc Bondy, Swiss Director (1948-2015); Vonda Shepard, US singer and songwriter (1963); Jorja Fox, US actress (series “CSI”) (1968).
days of death: Thibaut IV de Champagne, King of Navarre, French poet (1201-1253); Alexej Petrovich, heir to the Russian throne (1690-1718); Guy de Maupassant, French writer (1850-1893); Karl-Heinrich Bauer, German surgeon and cancer researcher (1890-1978); Max Horkheimer, German sociologist and philosopher (1895-1973); Gustav Manker, Austria Director (1913-1988); Veronika Lake (aka Constance Ockelmann), US-amer. actress (1919-1973); Hermann Kahn, US futurologist (1922-1983).
name days: William, Edelburg, Prosper, Willibald, Edda, Guidobald, Firmin, Benedikt, Johannes.
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