Under Wednesday, December 1, the book of history records, among other things:
1881: After the “Wiener Privat-Telegraphen-Gesellschaft” opened a concession to operate telephone systems in June, Austria’s first telephone exchange is opened on Friedrichstrasse in Vienna. Network operations are started with 154 participants, including newspapers, large companies and banks.
1911: World premiere of the play “Jedermann” by Hugo von Hofmannsthal at the Schumann circus in Berlin.
1921: Inflation leads to looting in Vienna.
1936: With the law on the Hitler Youth (HJ) as the only recognized youth organization, the process of complete coverage of the youth by the party and the state is completed.
1966: In Bonn, the cabinet of the grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD under Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt is sworn in by Federal President Heinrich Lübke. It lasts almost three years.
1981: A Yugoslav DC-9 crash over Corsica kills 180.
1986: The “Musée d’Orsay” opens in Paris.
1991: Referendum in Ukraine: overwhelming majority in favor of leaving the Soviet Union.
2001: Taiwan is undergoing a historic change of power. For the first time since 1949, the Chinese National Party (Kuomintang) is no longer the strongest force. The Democratic Progressive Party takes over the government.
2001: American planes attack several villages in eastern Afghanistan where Taliban fighters are suspected. According to survivors, hundreds of civilians were killed in the bombing.
2001: After eight years of childless marriage to Crown Prince Naruhito, the Japanese Crown Princess Masako (37) gives birth to a girl. The granddaughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko is named Aiko.
2006: A gigantic mudslide kills up to 1,000 people in the Philippines. The avalanche on Mayon volcano is triggered by heavy rainfall in the wake of a typhoon.
2006: In the case of the poisonous death of the former Russian secret service employee Alexander Litvinenko with the radioactive substance polonium 210, suspicions are increasingly directed against the Russian secret service. On December 3rd, after Scotland Yard, the US Federal Police FBI joined the murder investigation.
2011: The European Parliament votes with an overwhelming majority for Croatia’s accession to the EU. The signing will take place on December 9th, and on January 1st 2013 Croatia will become the 28th member of the EU.
2016: A bloodbath is discovered in a residential building in Böheimkirchen (St. Pölten-Land district): a woman shot her mother, her brother (41) and her three children aged seven and ten years old on November 20. Days later, the 35-year-old killed herself. The exact motive remains unclear, but it is assumed that the mother’s cancer (59) “played a role”.
Birthdays: Étienne Falconet, French rococo sculptor (1716-1791); Marie Tussaud, French wax modeler (1761-1850); Rex Stout, US writer (1886-1975); Georgij K. Zhukov, Soviet Marshal (1896-1974); Franz “Bimbo” Binder, east. Football player (1911-1989); Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian composer / conductor (1946-2001); Rudolf Buchbinder, east. Pianist (1946); Tunç Hamarat, east Chess player of Turkish descent, world champion in correspondence chess (1946); Nora Waldstätten, east. Actress (1981); Aiko, Japanese princess (2001).
Days of Death: Leo X., Italian Pope / art patron (1475-1521); Sir George Everest, British cartographer, namesake of Mount Everest (Chomolungma, 8,850 meters) (1790-1866); Charles de Foucauld, French theologian and founder of the order (1858-1916); George Joseph Stigler, US economist, Nobel Prize 1982 (1911-1991); Theo Braun, east. Painter and graphic artist (1922-2006); Christa Wolf, German writer (1929-2011).
Name days: Oskar, Blanka, Natalie, Eligius, Otwin, Charles de F., Longinus, Edmund, Natascha, Diodor, Paulina, Arnold.