Under Tuesday, November 9th, the book of history records, among other things:
1861: The first issue of the American soldiers’ newspaper “Stars and Stripes” is printed in Bloomington / Missouri.
1881: The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 2, B flat major, Op.83, by Johannes Brahms will take place in Budapest with the composer at the piano.
1946: Iceland joins the United Nations.
1956: Fighting in Budapest in the course of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets, parts of the city burn.
1961: When a US military machine crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 78 young soldiers and four crew members are killed.
1991: In Oxford, scientists from the European JET program succeeded for the first time in releasing significant energy through controlled nuclear fusion. The experiment generates a fusion power of 1.5 megawatts for two seconds.
2006: The date of his death could hardly be more symbolic: the former GDR “master spy” Markus Wolf dies to the day exactly 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
2016: A political tremor is emanating from the USA around the world: Contrary to all forecasts, US citizens are electing billionaire Donald Trump as the new president, Hillary Clinton’s decades-long dream of the White House vanished in one night.
Birthdays: Ferdinand Hanusch, east. Social reformer (1866-1823); Francis Joseph (“Muggsy”) Spaniard, US jazz musician (1906-1967); Martin Benrath, German actor (1926-2000); Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director (1926-2015); Michail Tal, Soviet world chess champion (1936-1992); Josef Broukal, east Journalist, moderator, editor and former politician (SPÖ) (1946).
Days of Death: Leo Lania (originally Lazar Herman), German-Austrian-US journalist and writer Russian Hrkft. (1896-1961); Giovanni Leone, Italian politician and President 1971-1978 (1908-2001); Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (1909-1976); Yves Montand, French actor / singer (1921-1991); H. Gobind Khorana, Indian U.S. molecular biologist, Nobel Prize 1968 (1922-2011); Öyvind Fahlström, Swedish painter (1928-1976).
Name days: Theodor, Aurelius, Willehad, Reinulf, Roland, Herfried, Clemens, Ursinus, Aggripinus.