2023-09-14 22:14:35
On Friday, September 15th, the book of history records, among other things:
1848: Counter-revolutionary forces form among the Viennese population: a “Monarchical-Constitutional Association” is founded, which gains more than 20,000 members within a few days.
1848: The “Slovak National Council” is founded in Vienna. The first chairman is the pastor and writer Jozef Miloslav Hurban.
1873: The Russian naturalist and Asian traveler Alexei Fedtschenko had a fatal accident while climbing Mont Blanc. (The Fedchenko Glacier in the Pamirs is named after him).
1918: The Allied Salonika Army begins its successful breakthrough offensive (until September 24th) in Macedonia, the Bulgarian Army is crushed.
1938: British Prime Minister Chamberlain negotiates with Hitler in Berchtesgaden about the Sudeten crisis.
1943: In Salo on Lake Garda, Mussolini founded a republican fascist government that was completely dependent on the Germans.
1963: Ahmed Ben Bella is elected Algeria’s first president.
1968: The new high-alpine Timmelsjoch road, the shortest connection between the Ötz and Passeier valleys, is completed.
1973: The Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf dies at the age of ninety, his grandson Carl XVI. Gustav takes the throne.
1983: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin officially resigns. Yitzhak Shamir will be his successor.
1988: Israel and Hungary resume diplomatic relations that were broken off in 1967.
1998: Conclusion on the Hummelbrunner case: The Supreme Court in Vienna confirms the conviction of public prosecutor Wolfgang Mekis for violating an official secret; the sentence is conditionally reduced from six to four months. The verdict against the car rental company Franz Kalal to three years of unconditional imprisonment for attempting to blackmail the Russian-born businesswoman Valentina Hummelbrunner is confirmed. A little later, Mekis was rehabilitated at the public prosecutor’s office.
1998: “Viagra”, the blue pill for erectile dysfunction and a bestseller in the United States since April, is approved by the European Union for marketing in EU countries.
2003: 96 inmates die in a prison fire in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, the cause of which is officially stated to be a short circuit.
2008: The US bank Lehman Brothers is insolvent – this is considered the beginning of the financial crisis that is bringing numerous banks and insurance companies to the brink of bankruptcy. The institute, which was considered one of five investment banks to be an unsinkable ship, had speculated on highly complex financial instruments. On the same day, Bank of America takes over the investment bank Merill Lynch for $50 billion, saving it from also becoming insolvent. This also heralds the end of investment banking in the USA; in the next few weeks all investment banks will be converted into normal banks or will be taken over.
Birthdays: Anton Heiller, Eastern composer (1923-1979); Julian”Cannonball” Adderly, US jazz musician (1928-1975); Olof Daniel Westling Bernadotte, Swedish Prince Consort (1973).
Days of death: Gustaf VI Adolf Bernadotte, King of Sweden (1882-1973); Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (1898-1978); Thomas Wolfe, US writer (1900-1938); Fritz Wintersteller, Eastern Alpinist (1927-2018); Egon Matzner, Austrian financial scientist (1938-2003); Peter Dressler, Eastern photographer (1942-2013); Richard Wright, British pop singer (1943-2008).
Name days: Dolores, Nikomedes, Melitta, Ekhard, Tobias, Roland, Ludmilla, Nicetas, Luithard, Jeremias.
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