On Thursday, November 11th, the book of history records, among other things:
1606: In the Turkish-Austrian peace treaty of Zsitva Török (near Komorn), which ended the war that had lasted since 1593, the sultan (Ahmed I) recognized the emperor (Rudolf II) for the first time as equal sovereign.
1831: Nat Turner, the leader of the black slave uprising, is executed with 19 of his supporters in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1886: In an experiment, the German physicist Heinrich Hertz succeeds in transmitting electromagnetic waves from a transmitter to a receiver. The Berlin Academy of Sciences was informed of this on December 13, 1888. The results provide the basis for the development of wireless telegraphy and radio.
1941: Gerhart Hauptmann’s drama “Iphigenie in Delphi” is published by Fischer.
1956: The first supersonic bomber, an American “Convair B-58”, takes off for the first test flight.
1956: Final collapse of the insurrectionary movement in Hungary.
1961: Pope John XXIII publishes the encyclical “Aeterna Dei sapientia” with the subtitle “On the occasion of the 1500th anniversary of the death of Pope Leo I: The Holy See of Peter as the center of Christian unity”.
1966: The US spaceship “Gemini-12” takes off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin on board.
1991: Beginning of the implementation of the popular initiative requested by the Green Alternative for a referendum on accession to the European Economic Area (EEA).
1996: The parents of Olivia Pilhar, Helmut and Erika, are conditionally sentenced in Wiener Neustadt for negligent bodily harm and the removal of a minor from the power of the legal guardian, each conditionally sentenced to eight months.
2011: After a series of neo-Nazi murders in Germany became known, the security authorities came under criticism. Members of a right-wing extremist group are said to be behind the murders of nine small business owners of foreign origin from 2000 to 2006 and also to have murdered a policewoman. The role of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and its informant system is then critically questioned.
Birthdays: Martin Bucer, German reformer (1491-1551); Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Russian writer (1821-1881); Leopold Adametz, east Animal Breeding and Heredity Researcher (1861-1941); Leopold Kunschak, east. Politician (ÖVP) (1871-1953); Noah Gordon, US writer (1926); Gerhard Kapl, ÖFB functionary; Football referee (1946-2011); Jean Joseph Marie Guillaume, Hereditary Duke of Luxembourg (1981).
Days of Death: Fra Diavolo, Italian freedom fighter (1771-1806); Alexander Ritter v. Schoeller, east. Large industry / banker (1805-1886); Paul Bert, French physiologist / politician (1833-1886); Alexander Calder, US sculptor and painter (1898-1976); Ilse Aichinger, east. Writer (1921-2016); Alf Brustellin, east. Film director (1940-1981).
Name days: Martin, Mennas, Bodo, Martina, Theodor, Felix, Felizitas, Anastasia.