2023-10-24 22:34:07
On Wednesday, October 25th, the book of history records, among other things:
1823: Carl Maria von Weber’s romantic opera “Euryanthe” premieres in Vienna.
1848: The imperial troops gathered around Vienna begin a major attack on the capital.
1878: The Bourbon opponent Oliva carries out an assassination attempt on the Spanish King Alfonso XII.
1913: The operetta “Polenblut” by Oskar Nedbal premieres in Vienna.
1918: Vienna is facing a famine catastrophe. Even with the greatest thrift, the remaining food supplies only last for two weeks.
1918: During a visit to Hungary, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita (as King and Queen) inaugurate the University of Debrecen.
1918: The British House of Commons decides to allow women to be elected to parliament.
1943: Soviet troops form bridgeheads on the western bank of the Dnieper, and the city of Dniepropetrovsk is abandoned by German troops.
1948: The Soviet occupying power demands that the Austrian federal government hand over 540 locomotives and 5,570 railway wagons of foreign origin as looted goods.
1948: The Belgian Parliament decides to set up a commission to investigate the behavior of King Leopold III. under the Nazi German occupation.
1968: The Czechoslovak Federal Assembly passes the Nationalities Act, which constitutionally enshrines the equal rights of the two nationalities, Czechs and Slovaks.
1973: In the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War, the ceasefire demanded by the UN Security Council comes into force.
1983: US intervention troops land on Grenada and eliminate the revolutionary regime there.
1983: The preparatory round for the Conference on Confidence Building and Disarmament in Europe (KUAE) begins in Helsinki.
2003: In Washington and San Francisco, more than a hundred thousand Americans took to the streets to protest against US President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy.
2003: The head of Russia’s largest oil company Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion. Many see President Vladimir Putin behind the apparently politically motivated move.
2008: In Vienna, a tram driver makes a tasteless political joke with consequences: after the announcement “Sieg Heil” during the last journey on Ring Line 1, the man is fired.
Birthday: Georges Bizet, French composer (1838-1875).
Days of death: Jean Schlumberger, French writer (1877-1968); Vincent Price, US actor (1911-1993); Wilhelm Karmann, German automobile entrepreneur (1914-1998); Hal Needham, US stuntman, actor (1931-2013).
Name days: Krispin, Chrysantus, Krispinian, Daria, Ludwig, Luitgard, Wilhelmine, Lutz, Probus, Boniface.
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