2023-09-07 22:32:14
Under Friday, September 8, the book of history records, among other things:
1278: Foundation of Andorra, which with 468 square kilometers (roughly the same area as Vienna) is the largest of the six European mini-states.
1793: In the Battle of Hondschoote near Dunkirk, the French inflict a heavy defeat on an enemy army of English, Dutch and Austrians.
1848: In Prussia, the government under David Hansemann resigns after refusing to comply with a decision by the German National Assembly on the army’s cooperation in the “realization of a constitutional legal status”.
1863: The first dog show in Austria takes place in Hietzing near Vienna.
1883: In the USA, the construction of the “Northern Pacific Railroad” between Chicago and Seattle is completed.
1908: The first serial hero in cinema history appears on the screen: Master detective Nick Carter appears in action for the first time in the film “The Ambush”, which premiered in Paris.
1943: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower announces Italy’s unconditional surrender, signed on September 3 and initially kept secret. Immediately afterwards, German troops occupy the country. Italian forces in the Balkans and south-eastern France are disarmed by the Germans. According to the “Führer Order” all Italian officers who offer resistance are to be summarily shot.
1948: The Central Committee of the CPSU accuses the “Tito Group” in Yugoslavia of “steering towards a break with the united front of the revolutionary world movement of the working-class peoples”. Tito’s attitude was “anti-Leninist and undignified”.
1963: In a plebiscite, the citizens of Algeria approved the constitution of the country (which became sovereign in 1962 after a costly eight-year liberation war against France) with 97.8 percent of the votes. Resistance hero Ahmed Ben Bella becomes president.
1968: A concentration camp memorial is dedicated in Dachau in Upper Bavaria. A notorious concentration camp was located there under the Nazi dictatorship in 1933-45.
1978: Anti-Shah demonstrations in Tehran and other Iranian cities are expanding. Martial law is imposed on twelve cities. According to official figures, street fighting in Tehran has claimed 97 lives.
1978: The new telecommunications center in Vienna is put into operation.
1983: A Czechoslovak couple with two children flees to Austria in a home-made hot-air balloon.
1988: A catastrophic flood in Bangladesh kills 2,800 people and leaves millions homeless.
1988: Millions of Burmese are demonstrating for democracy in numerous cities in the Southeast Asian country.
1998: Because of the Serbian Kosovo offensive, the EU is blocking its airports for machines from the Yugoslav airline JAT.
2008: A mudslide after a dam burst in northern China kills around 270 people. The accident at the tailings pond of an illegally operated iron ore mine was preceded by torrential rain.
2018: The former Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ) is elected the new Burgenland SPÖ leader with a good 98 percent. At the same time, at a state party conference in Oberwart, it was decided that Doskozil should also take over the office of state governor from Hans Niessl at the end of February 2019.
birthdays: Karl Weyprecht, Austria Officer and polar explorer of German origin (1838-1881); Alfred Jarry, French poet (1873-1907); Erik Reger, German writer/publicist (1893-1954); Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist; Nobel Prize 1969 (1918-1998); Leopold Guggenberger, Austria Politician (1918-2017).
days of death: Ricardo Zamora, Spanish soccer goalkeeper (1901-1978); Leni Riefenstahl, German film director and photographer (1902-2003); Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argent. Film director and screenwriter (1924-1978); Alfred Czerny, Austria Sculptor (or September 7th) (1934-2013).
name days: Hadrian, Berthelm, Sergius, Adrian, Alain, Thomas, Seraphine.
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