2023-10-13 22:37:03
On Saturday, October 14th, the book of history records, among other things:
1758: The Austrians under Field Marshal Count Leopold Daun inflicted a heavy defeat on the Prussian King Frederick II near Hochkirch in Lusatia during the Seven Years’ War. The Prussian Field Marshal Keith falls in battle.
1813: Bavaria declares war on France.
1878: In Sheffield, a football match will be played under floodlights (four Siemens arc lamps) for the first time.
1888: After 14 years of construction, the Burgtheater is opened on the Ring by Gottfried Semper and Karl Hasenauer. As the first electrically lit monumental building, the building caused quite a stir.
1933: Hitler announces the German government’s decision to leave the Geneva Disarmament Conference and withdraw from the League of Nations.
1968: Chinese President Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-tschi), who was disempowered as the most prominent victim of the “Cultural Revolution” and has not been seen in public since the end of 1966, is declared deposed.
1968: Apollo 7 is the first live television broadcast from a manned spacecraft.
1983: The left-wing Prime Minister of the Caribbean island of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, is overthrown and assassinated on October 19th. The USA takes this as an opportunity for military intervention.
1993: 24 Austrian patients who have been infected with the HIV virus through blood preparations since the 1980s are suing the company Immuno. From January 1, 1995, there will be a “severance payment and pension solution” for those affected.
2003: With its veto, the USA prevents the UN Security Council from condemning Israel for building the barrier in the occupied West Bank.
Birthdays: Nostradamus, French mathematician/astrologer (1503-1566); Katherine Mansfield (aka Kathleen Beauchamp) English writer (1888-1923); Edith Hancke, German actress (1928-2015); Farah Diba Pahlawi (also Pahlewi), first and last Empress of Persia 1967-1979 (1938); Usher, US R&B singer and actor (1978).
Days of death: Norbert Hanrieder, Eastern Dialect poet and Catholic. theologian (1842-1913); Sir Douglas Mawson, Australian/British. polar explorer (1882-1958); Adolf Althoff, German artist, tamer and circus director (1913-1998); Eduardo Arroyo, Spanish painter (1937-2018).
Name days: Hildegund, Kallistus, Burghard, Herta, Alan, Hedwig, Carponius, Fortuna, Donatian, Justus.
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