2023-09-23 22:11:50
On Sunday, September 24th, the book of history records, among other things:
768: Pippin III, the Younger, first Frankish king of the Carolingians, dies in Saint-Denis.
1688: With the siege of Philippsburg, Louis XIV begins his third war of conquest against the Palatinate, which triggers the Augsburg Alliance of imperial princes against him.
1938: In Great Britain and France there is partial mobilization due to the Sudeten crisis.
1943: Russian troops cross the Dnieper in their counteroffensive north of Kiev.
1983: In Monza (Italy), five people responsible for the Seveso dioxin poisoning disaster in 1976 were given long prison sentences.
1983: A major fire destroys the Loipersdorf thermal spa in East Styria.
1983: The musical “Cats” premieres at the Theater an der Wien.
1988: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson wins the Olympic 100-meter race, but is convicted of doping two days later. He is stripped of his gold medal.
2003: After a ten-year legal dispute over the million-dollar assets of the Novum company, the Berlin Higher Administrative Court ruled that it did not belong to the Austrian Communist Party, but was in fact a company of the GDR state party SED.
2003: 27 Israeli military pilots publicly declare their refusal to carry out orders to attack densely populated Palestinian areas.
2008: In the National Council, four of the five points of the package that determined the election campaign were approved by SPÖ leader Werner Faymann. The Hackler regulation will be extended, family allowances will be increased, tuition fees will be abolished, access restrictions at universities will be reduced and care allowance will be increased. The VAT on food will not be halved because the ÖVP and BZÖ are against it. To this end, the VAT on medicines will be reduced and pensioners will be granted an extra-curricular increase in view of the strong inflation.
Birthdays: Georg von Frundsberg, imperial field captain (1473-1528); Albrecht Wallenstein, general in the Thirty Years’ War (1583-1634); Sir Howard Walter Florey, British biochemist; Nobel Prize 1945 (1898-1968); Kevin Sorbo, US actor (1958).
Date of death: Berthold Quarter, east. Writer (1885-1953).
Name days: Rupert, Mercedes, Virgil, Gerhard, Robert, Gerd, Giselher, German, Theodora, Hermann.
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