2024-05-13 22:08:32
On Tuesday, May 14th, the book of history records, among other things:
1869: In Austria-Hungary, the eight-year community school was introduced with the passage of the Reich Elementary School Act under Minister Leopold Hasner von Artha.
1899: The Frenchman M. Chaudron becomes the first fatality in this sport in a 20-kilometer motorcycle race.
1914: The ballet “Legend of Joseph” by Richard Strauss celebrates its premiere in Paris.
1919: Of the officers accused of murdering Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, three received minor prison sentences and six were acquitted.
1929: Italy’s fascist sham parliament ratifies the Lateran Treaty with the Holy See.
1934: Austria and Italy conclude a foreign trade agreement.
1949: The city commanders of the three western powers in Berlin issue an occupation statute for the western sectors.
1959: After the National Council elections, Federal President Adolf Schärf once again commissioned ÖVP chairman Julius Raab to form a government. Although the SPÖ has become the party with the largest number of votes, it has one fewer parliamentary mandate than the People’s Party.
1964: Soviet party and government leader Nikita Khrushchev and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser inaugurate the Aswan Dam.
1969: The former Austrian Foreign Minister (1966-68) and ÖVP National Council member Lujo Tončić-Sorinj is elected Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
1979: In the more than 300-year history of the French Academy of Sciences, physicist Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, professor of analytical mechanics, is elected as the first female member.
1984: The “Konrad Lorenz referendum” to save the Hainburger Au is presented by a non-partisan committee.
1989: Peronist Carlos Menem wins the Argentine presidential election.
1994: Georgia and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia agree to the stationing of CIS peacekeepers.
1999: Kosovo War: 87 people die in a nightly NATO air raid in the southern Serbian town of Korisa.
2004: Denmark celebrates the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik to Australian Mary Donaldson in Copenhagen Cathedral.
2009: At an anti-mosque demo in Vienna, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache stands on stage with a cross and is promptly criticized by leading representatives of the Catholic Church.
Birthdays: Claudius Dornier, German aircraft manufacturer (1884-1969); Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (1899-1993); Carl Guesmer, German poet (1929-2009); Sigi Maron, Eastern songwriter (1944-2016); George Lucas, US film director and producer (1944); Karl-Markus Gauß, Eastern. Writer (1954); Andrea dealer, eastern Actress and cabaret artist (1964); Cate Blanchett, Australian. actress (1969); Mark Zuckerberg, US computer programmer, co-founder and boss of Facebook (1984).
Days of death: Heinz Guderian, German officer (1888-1954); Heinz Werner, German psychologist (1890-1964); Sidney Bechet, US jazz musician (1897-1959); Günter Gaus, German journalist and diplomat (1929-2004).
Name days: Bonifaz, Christian, Arnbert, Paschalis, Korona, Aglaja, Pachomius, Ismar, Michael, Viktor, Nikolaus.
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