Under Thursday, February 24, the book of history records, among other things:
1687: Based on an imperial resolution by Leopold I, the governor of the Lower Austrian lands, Imperial Count Johann Quintin von Jörger, ordered that the streets and squares of the residential city of Vienna should henceforth be “illuminated” at night. On November 7th, the test lighting with 17 lanterns equipped with tallow lights will be put into operation.
1867: Under the leadership of Prussia, the “North German Reichstag” is constituted as the legislature of the North German Confederation.
1887: For the first time, a telephone connection is established between two capitals – Paris and Brussels.
1912: Premiere of Leo Ascher’s operetta “Hoheit tanzt Walzer” in Vienna.
1922: The premiere of Luigi Pirandello’s “Henry IV.” takes place at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. instead of.
1947: The former German Chancellor Franz von Papen, who was initially acquitted in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals, was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp (released in 1949) and confiscation of property. He had served Hitler as Vice-Chancellor in 1933 and as envoy in Vienna after the Dollfuss murder in 1934.
1967: By order of the Chinese government, public order in Beijing is placed under army control.
1977: The National Council unanimously passes the law on the creation of an autonomous three-person Ombudsman Board based on the Scandinavian ombudsman institution.
1997: After the successful cloning of a lamb (“Dolly”) from a sheep’s udder cell, the discussion about the exact copying of humans receives new fuel.
1997: Milos Forman wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with the strip “Larry Flynt – The Naked Truth”.
2002: The French Socialists re-nomine Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (who lost to neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac in 1995) as their presidential candidate.
birthdays: Don Juan d’Austria, Spanish general (1547-1578); Matthias, Roman-German Emperor (1557-1619); George Augustus Moore, iri. writer (1852-1933); Karl Schönherr, Austria playwright (1867-1943); Mary Ellen Chase, US writer (1887-1973); Jiří Trnka, Czech director, illustrator, author of children’s books (1912-1969); Oskar (own name: Hans Bierbrauer), German caricaturist/draft artist (1922-2006); Richard Hamilton, British painter (1922-2011); Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (1927-2017); John Neumeier, US dancer, choreographer and ballet director (according to other sources 1939) (1942); Edward James Olmos, US film director (1947); Jean-Pierre Vidal, French ex-ski racer (1977).
days of death: Leo Ornstein, Russian pianist (1893-2002); Erik Engel, Austria “Sonnenzug” founder (1926-1997).
name days: Matthias, Edelbert, Ida, Modestus, Sergius, Marcus, Blasius, Irmgard.