2023-11-03 23:36:21
On Saturday, November 4th, the book of history records, among other things:
1493: Christopher Columbus lands on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. He and his crew are offered unknown pineapple fruits as a welcome gift.
1848: After the February Revolution, the French National Assembly adopted the Constitution of the Second Republic.
1918: One day following the armistice, Emperor Charles I resigned his command of the Austrian troops.
1918: After the German sailors’ revolt in Kiel, workers’ and soldiers’ councils take power.
1943: The film “Großstadtmelodie” with Hilde Krahl and Werner Hinz (directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner) premieres in Berlin.
1958: For the first time, a papal coronation – that of John XXIII. – broadcast on television.
1983: At least 60 people die in a bomb attack on the Israeli intelligence headquarters in Tire in occupied southern Lebanon.
1988: Premiere of the play “Heldenplatz” by Thomas Bernhard in Vienna’s Burgtheater.
1988: More than 90 percent of Algerians approved several constitutional changes in a referendum that would enable the democratization of the political system.
2003: ÖBB railway workers are on strike once morest the planned reform. Trains and buses are at a standstill across Austria for twelve hours.
2008: The superpower USA will in future be ruled by a politician with dark skin for the first time. Barack Obama clearly defeated Republican John McCain in a historic presidential election.
2008: The American author Michael Crichton dies of cancer at the age of 66. He wrote bestsellers such as Jurassic Park, Revelation and The Cradle of the Sun.
2013: An IMF report that was published in mid-October is suddenly causing a lot of excitement. The International Monetary Fund is considering a 10 percent levy on private wealth. Reports that the IMF now wanted a compulsory levy on all savings were subsequently denied by the IMF itself.
Birthdays: Jean-Jacques Gautier, French writer (1908-1986); Joseph Rotblat, British physicist; Nobel Peace Prize 1995 (1908-2005); Harry Valerien, German sports journalist and television presenter (1923-2012); Alfred Henry “Freddy” Heineken, Dutch Entrepreneur and beer brewer (1923-2002); Charles Kuen Kao; British-US-America Physicist; Nobel Prize 2009 (1933-2018); Amadou T. Touré, Mali. military/politician; 2002-2012 President (1948-2020).
Days of death: Richard Gerstl, Eastern painter (1883-1908); Karl Heinrich Waggerl, Eastern. writer (1897-1973); Marion Donovan, US architect and inventor of the “disposable diaper” (1917-1998); Hans von Borsody, Eastern-German. actor (1929-2013); Michael Crichton, US writer (1942-2008).
Name days: Karl, Reinhard, Vitalis, Emmerich, Agricola, Reginhart, Gregor, Helene, Carla, Carola, Carolina.
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