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1498: The Portuguese Vasco da Gama, who had found the sea route to India, began the return journey from Calicut.
1813: In the Austro-Bavarian Treaty of Ried, Bavaria withdraws from its alliance with France.
1818: The first prize boxing match with gloves takes place in Aachen between two Englishmen.
1848: The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV rejects the resignation of Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel despite his resistance to the draft constitution.
1903: China concludes a trade agreement with Japan and the USA, and the ports in the northeast are opened to international trade.
1918: The German retreat begins on the entire Western Front.
1918: Cholera outbreak in Berlin: The first 13 deaths.
1938: After Cardinal Theodor Innitzer shouted to seven thousand Catholic young people during a service in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral the evening before: “Only one is your leader: Jesus Christ,” Nazi gangs stormed the Archbishop’s Palace and devastated it. A clergyman is thrown out of the window and seriously injured.
1938: Carpatho-Ukraine, which is part of Czechoslovakia, receives autonomous status.
1948: Field Marshal Lord Montgomery resigns as Chief of the British General Staff. General William Slim is declared his successor.
1958: In Stockholm, Swedish heart surgeon Åke Senning implants a pacemaker in a forty-year-old engineer. The battery-powered device sends regular electrical pulses to the heart.
1958: In Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel’s right-wing Christian Falangists opened a new phase of the civil war (which broke out in the spring) after the new president General Fouad Chehab took office, but it was only short-lived.
1968: In Kinshasa, the former education minister in the cabinet of the first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who was assassinated in 1961, Pierre Mulele, was sentenced to death and executed a day later.
1973: Iran accepts Iraq’s offer to restore diplomatic relations that were broken off in 1971.
1988: Chancellor Franz Vranitzky pays an official visit to the Soviet Union. Moscow shows no understanding for the Austrian view that EC membership is compatible with neutrality status.
1993: At the first summit of the Council of Europe in Vienna, 32 heads of state and government made a commitment to strengthening human and minority rights.
2008: Austria secures all savings deposits retroactively to October 1st, prohibits short sales, guarantees bank liquidity and announces extensive liabilities and guarantees for banks.
2018: The non-smoking referendum “Don’t smoke” has been signed by 881,569 Austrians – and is thus close to the 900,000 mark. It is the sixth most successful referendum to date.
Birthdays: Karl Ludwig Baron von Bruck, Eastern. statesman (1798-1860); Max Slevogt, German painter (1868-1932); Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish. astronomer (1873-1967); Helmut Qualtinger, Austrian Actor, cabaret artist, author (1928-1986); Chevy Chase, US actor (1943); Gottfried Helnwein, Eastern. painter and photographer (1948); Ursula von der Leyen, German politician; since 2019 President of the EU Commission (1958).
Days of death: Karl Meisl, eastern playwright (1775-1853); Maria Grengg, Eastern storyteller and painter (1888-1963); Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (1889-1973); Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (1912-1953); Philip Chevron, Irish musician (1957-2013).
Name days: Günther, Benedikt, Sergius, Simeon, Brigitta, Reinfrieda, Pelagia, Demetrius, Marcellus, Anna, Hugo.
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