2023-11-09 23:10:41
On Friday, November 10th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: The royal troops gathered around Berlin move into the Prussian capital. The population offers no resistance. Under pressure from the military, the members of parliament have to submit to the ban on meetings issued by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
1918: At the request of Emperor Charles I, the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Gustav Piffl, contacted the Christian Social Party and suggested that it make efforts to preserve the monarchy.
1918: Firefights break out in the streets of Berlin. A “Council of People’s Representatives” chaired by the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert takes over government business. Wilhelm II, who abdicated as German emperor but not as Prussian king, goes into exile in the Netherlands.
1928: The Japanese Emperor Hirohito is ceremoniously enthroned.
1933: The Dollfuß government reintroduces martial law and the death penalty, which was abolished in 1919.
1948: Premiere of the drama “The Public Accuser” by Fritz Hochwälder at the State Theater in Stuttgart.
1948: The first “Taunus” rolls off the production line at the Ford works in Cologne.
1958: The premiere of the drama “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” from the estate of Bertolt Brecht will take place at the Stuttgart State Theater.
1958: Berlin ultimatum from Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, who demands that the Western powers should renounce the “remnants of the occupation regime in Berlin”: On November 27th, Moscow issued notes to the Western powers demanding a new status (Free City) for Berlin within six months to agree.
1968: The USSR launches its “Zond 6” probe, which sends the first images of the far side of the moon back to Earth.
1983: The first version of “Windows”, for which there are not yet any user programs, will be presented by Microsoft boss Bill Gates at the Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. “Windows 1.0” is used to start multiple DOS applications and switch between programs (sold in 1985).
1998: The European Union is starting accession negotiations with Slovenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Cyprus.
2003: Peace talks between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil LTTE separatists are broken off.
2008: During a state visit to Jordan, Federal President Heinz Fischer emphasized Austria’s support for the Hashemite Kingdom’s further rapprochement with the EU.
2008: The listed Telekom Austria will lay off around 1,250 employees in the fixed network sector over the course of 2009 and will have to set aside around 630 million euros for social plans because these employees cannot be dismissed due to their civil servant status.
2013: The 20-year-old Spaniard Marc Márquez is crowned the youngest MotoGP world champion in his first season. At the season finale in Valencia, third place behind defending champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) and Dani Pedrosa (Honda) was enough for the Honda driver to take the title ahead of his two compatriots.
Birthdays: Karl der Kühne, Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477); Martin Luther, dt. Reformer (1483-1546); François Couperin, Fr. Composer (1668-1733); Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev, Soviet. Aircraft designer (1888-1972); Ernst Otto Fischer, dt. chemist; Nobel Prize 1973 (1918-2007); Ennio Morricone, Italian. Composer (1928-2020); Karl Lausecker, east. Politician (SPÖ) (1928-2015); Jiří Gruša, Czech. Writer (1938-2011).
Days of death: Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk), Turkish statesman (1881-1938); Karl Föderl, Eastern. Composer and cafeteria (1885-1953); Theo Lingen, German-Austrian actor (1903-1978); Giorgio Orelli, Switzerland. poet (1921-2013); Miriam Makeba, South African Singer (1932-2008).
Name days: Andreas, Leo, Justus, Irmengard, Avellinus, Probus, Johannes, Jens, Nympha, Stefan, Hermann.
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