2023-11-24 23:25:13
On Saturday, November 25th, the book of history records, among other things:
1903: The Bavarian parliament unanimously approves a Social Democratic proposal to dismiss from the army officers and non-commissioned officers who are guilty of mistreating soldiers.
1908: The British steamer “Sardinia” catches fire near Malta. 120 people die in the accident.
1918: Final surrender of the German colonial troops in East Africa, after the official end of the war on November 11th.
1923: In Bavaria, the publication ban imposed on social democratic publications was lifted after almost three weeks.
1928: Re-opening of the Salzburg University by Chancellor Ignaz Seipel. The university, founded in 1622, was dissolved under Bavarian rule in 1810.
1938: In a speech to the Nazi organization “Strength through Joy”, the German Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels emphasized the anti-Semitic aims of National Socialism.
1948: Seven defendants, including six in absentia, are sentenced to death by the State Security Court in Prague for an alleged murder plot against Czechoslovak Defense Minister General Ludvík Svoboda.
1948: The French government appoints the Christian Democrat politician Alain Poher as “General Commissioner for German and Austrian Affairs”.
1968: The Congolese military dictator General Mobutu Sese Seko, who seized power in a coup in 1965 and will later rename the former Belgian colony Zaire, is founding a unity party.
1973: The Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos is removed from power by the military leadership after the bloody suppression of student protests in Athens. General Phaidon Gizikis becomes the new head of state.
1973: Oil crisis: Sunday driving ban for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg in response to the OPEC export boycott. The Arab states want to force the West to put pressure on Israel.
1988: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir announces his own Middle East peace offensive in response to that of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
1993: The German Christian Democrats (CDU) are withdrawing their presidential candidate, Saxon Justice Minister Steffen Heitmann, after his nomination by Chancellor Helmut Kohl met with strong resistance. The President of the Constitutional Court, Roman Herzog, is then proposed as the successor to Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker. (Herzog prevailed in 1994 against the SPD candidate Johannes Rau, who became his successor in 1999).
1998: The donations scandal surrounding “World Vision Austria” is exposed. In the next few days, money flows from the aid organization to Karl Habsburg’s Pan-European movement and for Habsburg’s European election campaign will become known. Habsburg rejects all calls for his resignation as an ÖVP parliamentarian.
2003: The USA is withdrawing loan guarantees worth 290 million euros to Israel because of the construction of new settlements in the occupied territories.
2008: The economic police begin searches in the offices of Immofinanz and Immoeast. The authorities are also looking for documents at Constantia Privatbank. It’s about the complicated corporate network of the Immofinanz Group and controversial financial transactions.
Birthdays: Georg Kaiser, German playwright (1878-1945); Mauno Koivisto, Finnish statesman (1923-2017); Hans Brenner, Eastern actor (1938-1998); Shelagh Delaney, British playwright (according to other sources 1939) (1938-2011); Gerard Mortier, Belgian cultural manager (1943-2014); Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgia. Luger (1988-2010).
Days of death: Max Josef Beer, Eastern composer (1851-1908); Charles Franklin Kettering, US inventor (1876-1958); Upton Sinclair, US writer (1878-1968); Fritz Feierabend, black. Bobsledder (1908-1978); Christian Nebehay, Eastern art dealer (1909-2003); Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-British. actor (1928-1973); Stefan Schörghuber, German entrepreneur and billionaire (1961-2008).
Name days: Katharina, Egbert, Bernold, Imma, Elisabeth, Karin, Katja, Margaretha, Erasmus, Konrad.
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