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1848: October Revolution in Vienna: Emperor Ferdinand I flees with his court to Olomouc. The Reichstag – a rump parliament dominated by the left due to the departure of the right-wing representatives – sets up a “security committee”, the workers form an armed association, the “mobile guard”.
1858: King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia is declared mentally ill and unfit to govern by a cabinet decision. His brother, Crown Prince Wilhelm, the future German Emperor (Wilhelm I), takes over the regency.
1918: A German fighter plane accidentally shoots down a Swiss tethered balloon. The German government expresses its “sincere regret” about the incident.
1928: Ethiopia: Coup d’état of the regent Ras Tafari Makonnen, who accepts the Negus title and has himself crowned emperor as Haile Selassie I in 1930 – after the death of Empress Zauditu (Judith), daughter of Menelik II.
1933: The merger of France’s two largest airlines creates “Air France”.
1943: The musical “One Touch of Venus” by Kurt Weill premieres in New York.
1958: In France, proportional representation is replaced by majority voting, bringing a stable system of government to the Fifth Republic created by General Charles de Gaulle.
1963: US President John F. Kennedy signs the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the USA, Great Britain and the USSR.
1968: Signing of the treaty between Austria and the Holy See on the establishment of an independent diocese of Feldkirch, which includes the territory of the federal state of Vorarlberg. Bruno Wechner becomes the first Vorarlberg diocesan bishop.
1973: Iraq nationalizes the facilities of the US oil companies Standard Oil and Mobil Oil located in the country.
1988: The EC opens its official trade mission to the People’s Republic of China.
1993: US President Bill Clinton decides to change course in American Somalia policy and abandon military action. The withdrawal of troops from the East African civil war country is scheduled to be completed by March 1994.
2003: The Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor of the US state of California.
2008: A 450 kilo Mexican man who just a few days ago asked on television for help in losing weight dies of heart failure. For José Luis Garza, any help comes too late on the way to the hospital. The rescue workers have to tear down the wall to the bedroom of the 47-year-old, who is fighting for his life, and transport him to the hospital in the back of a truck.
2018: The SPÖ is quietly and secretly canceling its planned statute reform in a presidium. After internal resistance, a compromise formula was ultimately found, but this significantly reduced the possibility of basic participation compared to the original plans.
Birthdays: Oscar Pollak, Eastern Journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of the “Arbeiterzeitung” (1893-1963); Ali Kafi, Algerian. politician (1928-2013); Sunnyi Melles, Black-Eastern actress (1958); Toni Braxton, US pop singer (1968) (according to other sources 1967); Thom Yorke, British singer (Radiohead) (1968).
Days of death: Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian sculptor (1435-1488); Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (1899-1963); Cyril James Cusack, Irish actor (1910-1993); George E. Palade, Romanian-US cell biologist; Nobel Prize 1974 (1912-2008); Hans Liebherr, German entrepreneur and inventor (1915-1993); Patrice Chéreau, French director (1944-2013).
Name days: Rosa, Markus, Erwin, Amalia, Gerold, Bacchus, Sergius, Justina, Jörg, Maria.
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