Under Tuesday, January 25, the book of history records, among other things:
1587: Prince Archbishop George II of Kuenburg dies in Salzburg. His successor is Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau.
1802: France’s First Consul General Napoleon Bonaparte becomes President of the Italian Republic.
1817: Gioacchino Rossini’s opera “Cinderella” premieres in Rome.
1912: Foundation of the “Wiener Flugfeld Ges.mbH” in Aspern. At that time, the airfield was one of the largest and most modern in Europe. On March 31, 1977, it was closed and flight operations ceased.
1947: The heads of administration in the American and British occupation zones of Germany decide to set up a bizonal “German Office for Peace Issues”, which will become the nucleus of what will later become the Foreign Office in Bonn.
1977: The first commercial solar power plant goes online in the French Pyrenees. Focused light heats the liquid in a kettle. The steam generated drives a 64 kW generator.
1992: Against the will of the representatives of the Serb population, the parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina decides to hold an independence referendum.
birthdays: Johannes Oporinus, Switzerland. printer, publisher and scholar (1507-1568); Virginia Woolf, English writer (1882-1941); Ann Tizia Leitich, Austria writer (1891-1976); Peter Klein, Austria Kammersänger (1907-1992); Janio Quadros, Brazil. politician (1917-1992); Ilya Prigogine, Belgian physical chemist; Nobel Prize 1977 (1917-2003); Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil. composer (1927-1994); Werner Schneyder, Austria Cabaret artist and writer (1937-2019); Ange-Félix Patassé, politician of the Central African Republic (1937-2011).
days of death: Genseric, king of the Vandals and Alans (c. 389-477); Edmond Halley, English mathematician/astronomer (1656-1742); Martina Wied, Austria writer (1882-1957); Ludwig Tügel, German writer (1889-1972); Al Capone, US crime lord (1899-1947); Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (1902-1982); Otto Scheiner, former Austrian WKÖ Vice President (1918-2002); Paavo Berglund, Finnish conductor (1929-2012); Mary Tyler Moore, US actress (1936-2017); John Hurt, British actor (1940-2017).
name days: Paul, Wolfram, Heinrich, Eberhard, Elsbeth, Titus, Tatjana, Gregor.