2023-11-16 23:04:46
On Friday, November 17th, the book of history records, among other things:
1558: Queen Mary I Tudor (“the Catholic”) of England (called “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents) dies in London. Her half-sister Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn, who was executed, ascends the throne.
1848: Pro-democratic forces prevail in local council elections in the Kingdom of Saxony.
1903: King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his Montenegrin wife Helene arrive in Portsmouth harbor on a state visit to Britain.
1908: In Paris, at the premiere of the film “L’Assassinat du Duc de Guise” (The Assassination of the Duke of Guise), accompanying music by Camille Saint-Saëns, composed specifically for a film, was played for the first time.
1913: The first ocean-going ships pass through the Panama Canal.
1913: The first World Nature Conservation Conference begins in Bern with delegations from 16 countries.
1933: Erich Maria Remarque’s famous anti-war novel “Nothing New in the West” is banned by the Nazi authorities in Germany.
1948: Zurich Airport goes into operation.
1948: Spain’s dictator General Franco accuses the Western powers of “insulting and treating his country very badly.” At the same time, he accuses the British Labor government of thwarting any agreement between his regime and the USA.
1958: In Sudan, the army under General Ibrahim Abboud takes power.
1963: The 190 meter high “Europe Bridge” near Innsbruck, the centerpiece of the Brenner Motorway, is inaugurated after four and a half years of construction. The 815 meter long structure spans the Silltal.
1983: The ORF television discussion group “Club 2” is being broadcast live for the first time from an Eastern Bloc country: In Budapest, participants from East and West debate the topic of “Hungary today”.
1993: The US House of Representatives approves the NAFTA agreement, which makes the United States, Canada and Mexico the largest single market in the world.
1993: Establishment of the Hague International Criminal Court, established by decision of the UN Security Council to punish war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
1998: In France, the head of the right-wing extremist “National Front”, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is deprived of the right to stand for election for one year by a court order.
1998: The Israeli Parliament overwhelmingly approves the Israeli-Palestinian Wye Plantation Agreement. With the Knesset’s approval, the way is clear for a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli military from the West Bank.
2003: Styrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as the 38th governor of the most populous US state in the Californian capital Sacramento.
2008: The winners of the 2008 Austrian Literature Prizes will be announced at the opening of the First Vienna Reading Festival Week. The Austrian State Prize for European Literature goes to Ágota Kristóf. The award for literature goes to Elfriede Czurda, and in the children’s and young adult literature category to Jutta fahrer. Robert Misik received the State Prize for Cultural Journalism.
Birthdays: Bronzino (aka Agnolo di Cosimo), Italian painter (1503-1572); Berta Lask, German writer (1878-1967); Curt Goetz (aka Kurt Walter Götz), Swiss-German. Writer and actor (1888-1960); Jeannie Ebner (married Allinger), Austrian writer (1918-2004); Aristides Maria Pereira, Cape Verde. Politician; President 1975-1991 (1923-2011); Horst Michael Neutze, German actor (1923-2007); Arman (aka Arman Fernandez), French artist (1928-2005); Lauren Hutton, US actress (1943); Herbert Adamec, Eastern actor/director (1943-2009); Adolf “Adi” Hirschal, Eastern Actor, cabaret artist and singer (1948); Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, US actress (1958); Elisabeth “Lisi” Kirchler, former Austrian ski racer (1963); Alexei Urmanov, former Russian figure skater (1973).
Days of death: Jakob Wimpfeling, German humanist (1450-1528); Mary I Tudor, Queen of England (1516-1558); Hermann H. Meier, German banker (1809-1898); Hans Larwin, Eastern painter (1873-1938); Wilhelm Lehmann, German poet (1882-1968); Syd Field, American screenwriter (1935-2013).
Name days: Gertrud, Hilda, Gregor, Hugo, Florian, Salome, Florin, Viktoria, Romanus, Hyacinth.
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