Under Wednesday, March 9, the book of history records, among other things:
1152: As the successor of his uncle Konrad III. the Hohenstaufen Friedrich I. Barbarossa is crowned German king in Aachen. (Imperial coronation June 18, 1155).
1617: In the Treaty of Stolbowo, Russia loses all of its possessions on the Baltic Sea coast to Sweden.
1697: Tsar Peter the Great embarks incognito on a fact-finding tour of Europe, which takes him to the Netherlands, England and Austria.
1842: Premiere of the opera “Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.
1932: The Japanese installed the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, who was dethroned in 1912, under the name of Kang Teh, as nominal ruler in the Manchuria they occupied: establishment of the puppet state “Manchukuo”.
1937: Spanish Civil War: A fascist “Basic Law of Labor” is enacted in the areas controlled by the Franco insurgents.
1942: The Dutch troops on Java surrender, and Japan has conquered the whole of the Dutch East Indies.
1957: US President Dwight Eisenhower proclaims the doctrine named after him: A guarantee of US protection for all Middle East countries that feel threatened by Communism.
1957: For the first time, the TV show “What does one see new” by and with Heinz Conrads will be broadcast live on Austrian radio. The program was broadcast until February 15, 1986 under the title “Good evening on Saturday”.
1967: The former “Bild-Telegraf” and “Express” editor-in-chief Gerd Bacher will become the first general director of the ORF on the basis of the new broadcasting law.
1992: China is the last major nuclear power to formally join the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
2007: Accompanied by protest demonstrations, US President George W. Bush begins a journey through five Latin American countries. In Brazil, Bush agreed with his counterpart Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva to cooperate in the production of ethanol as “biofuel”.
2012: When trying to reach Gasherbrum I – also known as Hidden Peak – in the Karakoram, Styrian Gerfried Göschl (39) and his rope companions Cedric Hählen from Switzerland and Nisar Hussain from Pakistan disappear. They are last seen 200 to 250 meters below the summit.
birthdays: Friederike Karoline Neuber, German actress (1697-1760); Victoria Sackville-West writer (1892-1962); Josef Weinheber, Austria writer (1892-1945); Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian Communist Party politician (1892-1971); Mircea Eliade, Romanian. writer (1907-1986); Leonid Zamyatin, Soviet politician/diplomat (1922-2019); Rudolf Strobl, Austria actor/director (1927-1997); John Cale, British rock musician (1942); Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer (1947-2021).
days of death: Susanne Madeleine Schwob, Switzerland. painter (1888-1967); Menachem Begin, Israel. Politician; Nobel Peace Prize 1978 (1913-1992); Vera Ferra-Mikura, Austria children’s book author (1923-1997); Werner Fend, Austria wildlife filmmaker (1926-1997); Karl Korinek, President of the Austrian Constitutional Court (1940-2017).
name days: Franziska, Bruno, Reinhard, Prudentius, Dominikus, Barbara, Gregor, Katharina Eugen.