2023-10-18 22:00:26
On Thursday, October 19th, the book of history records, among other things:
1813: The Battle of Leipzig (since September 16th) ends with the victory of the allied Austrians, Russians and Prussians over the French.
1848: The German National Assembly begins deliberations on the imperial constitution in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche.
1903: The premiere of Max Halbe’s drama “Der Strom” takes place at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
1913: In Vienna, the Vienna Konzerthausgesellschaft building is completed on Lothringerstrasse.
1918: Germany announces the end of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918: The Soviet Russian government decides to establish an autonomous region of the Volga Germans (1924 Autonomous Republic, dissolved in World War II).
1923: Henrik Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” premieres at Berlin’s Schiller Theater.
1923: The film “His Wife, the Unknown” premieres in Berlin, in which Willy Fritsch plays his first leading role.
1933: The Hitler regime officially withdraws Germany from the League of Nations.
1943: Beginning of the Moscow Conference, at which Foreign Ministers Vyacheslav Molotov (USSR), Anthony Eden (Great Britain) and Cordell Hull (USA) set the restoration of Austria within the 1937 borders as the Allied war goal. The “annexation” to Germany in March 1938 is considered null and void. (The Moscow Declaration will be published on November 1st).
1943: The anti-tuberculosis antibiotic “Streptomycin” is isolated by Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie and Selman Waksman at Rutgers University. For this discovery, Waksman received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1952.
1948: In Japan, Liberal Democrat leader Shigeru Yoshida forms a coalition government with the Social Renewal Party.
1948: The Hungarian Interior Ministry announces the arrest of ten Catholic clergymen who are accused of “inciting students.”
1958: The Brussels World Exhibition, which opened on April 17th, closes its doors with a huge fireworks display.
1958: In France, the number of automobiles produced has exceeded the million mark for the first time since the beginning of the year.
1958: The 33.5 kilometer long new Wachaustraße between Stein and Emmersdorf will be opened to traffic.
1973: Seven Arab oil countries are imposing a supply boycott against the USA and the Netherlands because of their pro-Israel stance. The price of petroleum will be increased almost twice.
1983: On the Caribbean island of Grenada, the socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is murdered after his overthrow.
1988: In Vienna, the first issue of the daily newspaper “Der Standard”, founded by Oscar Bronner, appears on salmon pink paper.
1988: After the death of Franz Josef Strauss, Max Streibl becomes the new Bavarian Prime Minister.
1993: Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan again after her election victory. She was already head of government in 1988-90.
2003: Political earthquake in Switzerland: The right-wing conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP) with its driving force, the multimillionaire Christoph Blocher, emerges from the National Council elections as the force with the strongest votes and mandates.
2003: After the shortest beatification process in church history, Pope John Paul II beatified the nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta (whose real name was Agnes Bojaxhiu), who died in 1997. The founder of the Congregation of “Missionaries of Charity” received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Born in 1910 to an Albanian family in the then Ottoman Skopje, she went to India in her youth and dedicated herself to caring for the dying, abandoned babies and lepers.
2008: Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed his support for the Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama and rejected his party colleague John McCain.
Birthdays: Alan Keith, British actor (1908-2003); Vasco Pratolini, Italian narrator (1913-1991); Robert S. Strauss, US economist (1918-2014); Theo Löbsack, German writer (1923-2001); Adolfo Aristarain, Argent. film director (1943); Laurent of Saxe-Coburg, Belgian prince (son of King Albert II) (1963).
Days of death: Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter (1624-1673); Joseph Prince Poniatowski, French Marshal (1763-1813); Josef Gielen, Eastern-German. director (1890-1968); Albert Steigenberger, German hotelier (1889-1958); Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian. Politician (1925-2003).
Name days: Paul, Jean, Isaac, Petrus, Dietfried, Frieda, Ferdinand, Laura, Thomas, Joel, Frederwinde.
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