On Tuesday, January 4th, the book of history records, among other things:
1717: England, France and Holland form an alliance directed against the Spanish striving for supremacy.
1762: English declaration of war on Spain and Naples.
1787: With a court decree, Emperor Joseph II forbids the so-called “court and apartment dresses of the ladies, the knee-bent reverences and the kiss of the hand of men and women against the sovereign and all persons of the ore house, because this is not a decent act between man and man that God alone must be reserved “.
1797: In the Battle of Rivoli, the Austrian troops are defeated by the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte.
1902: Felix Salten founds the “Jung-Wiener Theater zum Lieben Augustin”.
1927: The Berlin-Vienna long-distance cable is inaugurated with the first official long-distance calls between the presidents and chancellors of Germany and Austria.
1932: The Indian government declares the “Indian National Congress” illegal and arrests Mahatma Gandhi.
1947: The first issue of the political magazine “Der Spiegel” published by Rudolf Augstein appears in Hamburg, for which the US magazine “Time” serves as a model.
1967: “Cultural Revolution” in the People’s Republic of China: Bloody clashes in Beijing factories between workers and Red Guards. At a rally, the disempowered but nominally still incumbent President Liu Shaoqi (Liu Schao-chi) is sharply criticized and publicly humiliated by supporters of the party leader Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) as a “revisionist” and “Chinese Khrushchev”. Civil war-like unrest breaks out in the port metropolis of Shanghai.
2002: The first US soldier dies in Afghanistan.
2017: TV favorite Klaus Wildbolz dies in his hometown of Vienna at the age of 79. The actor, who began his career in the theater, later became known to a wide audience through legendary TV roles.
Birthdays: Balthasar Ferdinand Moll, east. Sculptor (1717-1785); Edmund Rumpler, east. Aircraft construct. (1872-1950); John McCone, US industrialist / CIA director (1902-1991); Marte Harell, east. Actress (1907-1996); Arnulf Neuwirth, east. Painter / writer (1912-2012); Carlos Saura, Spanish film director / author (1932); Grace Bumbry, US opera singer (1937); John McLaughlin, British jazz musician (1942); Josef Cap, east. Politician (1952); Bernhard Kohl, formerly east Cyclist (1982).
Days of Death: Leon Jessel, German composer (1871-1942); Hermann Ferdinand Schell, Swiss Switzerland. Writer (1900-1972); Georges Prêtre, French conductor (1924-2017); Klaus Wildbolzz, east Actor (1937-2017).
Name days: Angela, Marius, Titus, Rigobert, Rüdiger, Isabella, Roger, Maro, Angelika, Christiane, Anastasia.