2023-09-25 22:20:37
On Tuesday, September 26th, the book of history records, among other things:
1858: Opening of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Westbahn on the Vienna-Linz route.
1878: Austro-Hungarian troops capture Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina. (The Bosnian capital Sarajevo was captured in August.)
1918: The Czech National Council proclaims in Paris the establishment of an independent Czech state.
1938: The British Foreign Office announced that England, France and Prague were ready to negotiate to enable the Sudeten Germans to become part of Germany.
1963: Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky gives a speech on the South Tyrol problem before the UN General Assembly in New York.
1968: Marcelo Caetano becomes the new Prime Minister of Portugal, succeeding the seriously ill António Salazar.
1988: The book “The Satanic Verses”, a novel by the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, is published. It’s regarding Indian immigrants in Great Britain and the life of the Prophet Mohammed. The appearance sparked a series of protests and acts of violence by Muslims. The Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death because of some passages in the book.
2008: The long-serving state governor of Carinthia, Leopold Wagner (SPÖ), dies at the age of 81.
2008: US actor Paul Newman dies of lung cancer at the age of 83.
2013: In the “Blood Diamond Trial” in The Hague, the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, was sentenced to 50 years in prison following a seven-year trial. The 65-year-old is the first former head of state to be found guilty since the Nuremberg Trials – for inciting and aiding and abetting thousands of murders, torture and rape in Sierra Leone’s civil war.
Birthdays: T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot, US-Amer.-Brit. Poet; Nobel Prize 1948 (1888-1965); George Gershwin, US composer (1898-1937); Ernst Schnabel, German writer (1913-1986); Rudolf Scholz, Eastern Organist, music teacher (1933-2012); Olivia Newton-John, British singer (1948-2022); James Caviezel, US actor (1968).
Days of death: August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (1790-1868); Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (1858-1918); Jan Parandowski, Polish writer (1895-1978); Anna Magnani, Italian actress (1908-1973); Paul Newman, US actor (1925-2008); Leopold Wagner, Eastern Politician (SPÖ) (1927-2008); Ignaz Kirchner, German actor (1948-2018); Robert Palmer, British musician (1949-2003).
Name days: Kosmas, Damian, Zyprian, Meinhard, Eugenie, Egmont, Justina, Cosima, René, Maria, Victoria.
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