2023-11-08 23:04:41
On Thursday, November 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: In Vienna, the left-wing Paulskirchen MP Robert Blum, leader of the liberal movement in Saxony, is summarily shot. This execution seals the break between the successful Austrian counter-revolution and the German National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main.
1908: The German War Ministry takes delivery of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s new airship called “ZI”.
1918: The German Chancellor Prince Max of Baden announces the abdication of Wilhelm II as Emperor, but not as King of Prussia, and then resigns. A general strike is declared in Berlin, which troops also join. With the words “The old rotten thing has collapsed, militarism is done away with,” the social democratic politician Philipp Scheidemann announced the founding of the republic. On a balcony of the royal palace, Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht proclaims the Soviet Republic.
1923: In Munich, the German Reichswehr suppressed a coup attempt by Hitler and General Erich Ludendorff, who was close to him. The 16 National Socialists killed during the dispersal of the “March to the Feldherrnhalle” are revered as “heroes of the movement.” The German authorities ban the NSDAP.
1938: During the pogroms throughout Germany and occupied Austria (“Kristallnacht”), Jews were arrested and severely mistreated, their homes and shops were looted and almost all synagogues were burned down. In Vienna, 27 Jews are murdered, 88 are seriously injured, and 7,800 are arrested.
1943: In Atlantic City, 44 countries founded the aid organization UNRRA to support refugees and deportees.
1963: The artificial ice stadium in Innsbruck for the IX. Winter Olympics opens.
1963: 453 miners die in a mining accident near the Japanese town of Ōmuta.
1983: In Amsterdam, the brewery king Alfred Heineken was kidnapped and only freed by the police on November 20th after a ransom of more than 200 million schillings was paid.
1993: The world-famous 16th-century Neretva Bridge in Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina, collapses under Croatian fire.
2003: In the general election in Japan, Prime Minister Jun’ichirō Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party can maintain an absolute majority despite losses.
2003: Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Korei forms a new cabinet after long disputes. President Yasser Arafat remains largely in control of the security apparatus.
2008: More than 20 crew members die and 21 others are injured in an accident on a Russian nuclear submarine. According to the investigation report, a sailor who triggered the fire extinguishing system for no reason is responsible for the accident. Radioactivity does not come out.
Birthdays: Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (1818-1883); Stanford White, US architect (1853-1906); Fritz Thyssen, German industrialist (1873-1951); Jean Monnet, French politician and co-founder of the EC (1888-1979); Eva Lissa, Eastern actress (1913-1988); Anne Sexton, US poet (1928-1974); Michael Kunze, German author/librettist (1943); Bille August, Danish director (1948); Erol Sander, German actor of Turkish origin (1968); Axel Schulz, former German boxer (1968).
Days of death: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian engraver/architect (1720-1778); Henry V. Bamberg, eastern physician (1822-1888); Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (1880-1918); Otto Siegl, Eastern Composer and bandmaster (1896-1978); Dylan Thomas, British writer (1914-1953); Emile Zuckerkandl, Eastern-US molecular biologist (1922-2013).
Name days: Theodore, Aurelius, Willehad, Reinulf, Roland, Herfried, Clemens, Ursinus, Aggripinus.
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