2023-10-28 22:38:45
On Sunday, October 29th, the book of history records, among other things:
1268: Duke Conradin of Swabia, the last male Hohenstaufen, is beheaded in Naples on the orders of Charles I of Sicily.
1618: The sailor and writer Walter Raleigh is executed in London for treason against King James I Stuart.
1848: The Vienna municipal council asks the imperial commander-in-chief, Prince Alfred zu Windischgrätz, to take the besieged capital as quickly as possible in order to prevent uprisings and looting.
1888: “Convention of Constantinople”. Signing of a treaty between the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and the Ottoman Empire for the use of the Suez Canal. It guarantees free passage for merchants and warships of all nations in times of war and peace and is still valid today.
1893: After the failure of his plans for electoral law reform, Austrian Prime Minister Count Eduard Taaffe resigns.
1918: Beginning of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian army.
1918: The Sabor, the Croatian parliament, dissolves the constitutional ties to the Hungarian crown that date back to the 12th century and proclaims unification with the Serbian kingdom, which takes place on December 1st. is carried out.
1923: Proclamation of the Turkish Republic. The National Assembly assembled in the new capital Ankara elects Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) as President. The last Sultan Mehmed VI. Vahideddin had already gone into exile in 1922 (the abolition of the caliphate in March 1924).
1948: Because of publishing a pro-communist brochure, National Council member and central secretary Erwin Scharf is expelled from the SPÖ by an arbitration tribunal at the request of the party chairman, Vice Chancellor Adolf Schärf. (He later switches to the KPÖ.)
1958: The Salzburg state parliament is the first among the state parliaments to decide on the implementing regulations for the instruments of referendum and referendum provided for in the federal constitution.
1958: The last British troops leave Jordan.
1968: At the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, a lock of Emperor Napoleon I’s hair, which was cut off by a servant while he was exiled on the island of Elba, is auctioned off for the equivalent of around 6,300 schillings.
1973: In Istanbul, the Bosphorus Suspension Bridge is inaugurated by Turkish President Admiral Fahri Korutürk, which connects Europe and Asia with a total length of 1,560 meters and a span of 1,074 meters.
1993: The EC heads of state and government decide that Frankfurt am Main should be the headquarters of the European Monetary Institute and the European Central Bank (ECB).
1993: The flying staff of AUA (Austrian Airlines) are on strike in connection with cooperation negotiations with other European airlines (until November 2nd).
2003: In Great Britain, the opposition Conservatives vote out their leader Iain Duncan Smith.
2008: A severe earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills up to 300 people. Hundreds of houses collapse. Around 20,000 people become homeless.
Birthdays: Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American biochemist (“Father of the Pill”) (1923-2015); Kate Jackson, US actress (1948).
Days of death: Conradin of Swabia, the last Hohenstaufen (1252-1268); Sir Walter Raleigh, English Sailors and writers (around 1552-1618); Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (1863-1933); Adolphe Menjou, US film actor (1890-1963).
Name days: Hermelindis, Narcissus, Ferrutius, Engelhard, Elfriede, Melinda, Linde, Abraham, Ingold, Margarete.
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