2024-10-29 23:39:00
On Wednesday, October 30th, the book of history records, among other things:
1864: In the Peace of Vienna, Denmark had to cede the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg to Austria and Prussia.
1914: Start of the Battle of Ypres (until November 24th).
1974: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) celebrates his comeback as heavyweight world champion with a sensational victory over George Foreman.
1984: Czechoslovak border guards shoot a refugee who had already reached Austrian territory. This leads to a serious diplomatic crisis between Vienna and Prague.
1984: The body of priest Jerzy Popiełuszko, who was kidnapped and murdered (on October 19) by members of the Polish secret service, is found in a reservoir near Włocławek.
1999: After 24 years of occupation, the first Indonesian soldiers are leaving East Timor.
1999: The Falun Gong cult movement is banned in the People’s Republic of China and numerous cult followers are arrested.
Birthdays: Alfred Sisley, French impressionist. painter (1839-1899); Count Karl Stürgkh, Eastern. statesman (1859-1916); Rudolf Forster, Eastern actor (1884-1968); Marius Flothuis, Dutch. composer (1914-2001); Josef Pühringer, former Austrian Politician; 1995-2017 LH Upper Austria (1949); Piero Gros, Italian former ski racer (1954); Stipe Erceg, German actor (1974).
Todestage: Ernst Lothar, Eastern writer/director (1890-1974); Claude Levi-Strauss, French ethnologist and anthropologist (date of death according to other information October 31) (1908-2009).
Name days: Alfons, Dietger, Luitburg, Gerhard, Claudius, Dieter, Dorothea, Bernhard, Marcellus.
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