On Tuesday, October 26th, the book of history records, among other things:
1861: The physics teacher Philipp Reis demonstrates a device in front of the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt, which he calls a “telephone”.
1871: Prime Minister Karl Graf von Hohenwart is seeking his impeachment after Emperor Franz Joseph I rejected the new Bohemian land order, which would have granted Bohemia a special status similar to that achieved by Hungary through the “Compensation” of 1867. (Hohenwart’s successor is Adolf Fürst Auersperg).
1896: In the peace of Addis Ababa, Italy has to recognize the independence of Abyssinian, but keeps Eritrea and Somaliland.
1911: Sun Yat-sen proclaims the Republic of China.
1931: Eugene O’Neill’s play “Mourning must carry Elektra” premiered in New York.
1946: The Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) is founded in North Rhine-Westphalia.
1951: Boxing world champion Rocky Marciano (USA) thwarted a comeback attempt by the “brown bomber” Joe Louis by knocking out in the eighth round.
1961: General Cemal Gürsel, who overthrew Adnan Menderes’ regime, becomes President of Turkey.
1966: The first non-working national holiday (1955-1964 day of the flag / flag, since 1965 national holiday, since 1966 non-working).
1966: France’s NATO allies decide to move the NATO Council from Paris to Belgium.
1966: 45 crew members are killed in a fire on the US aircraft carrier “Oriskany” in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1981: Start of extended localization in radio. Each of the nine state studios broadcasts an average of nine hours of programming for their own broadcasting area. At the same time, the program schemes for Ö1 and Ö3 are being adapted.
1991: Opening of the new “Austrian Theater Museum” in the Lobkowitz Palace in Vienna’s 1st district.
2001: On the national holiday, Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel rejects neutrality: “The old templates – Lipizzaner, Mozartkugeln or neutrality – no longer work in the complex reality of the 21st century”.
2006: The German HypoVereinsbank (HVB) receives the green light from its shareholders for the sale of Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA-CA) to the Italian parent company UniCredit. HVB expects a book profit worth billions of euros, which it wants to use for its expansion plans.
2006: The ORF begins with the conversion of the broadcasting of television signals to DVB-T, the digital antenna TV.
Birthdays: Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (1906-1967); Mahalia Jackson, US singer (1911-1972); François Mitterrand, French politician, President 1981-1995 (1916-1996); Elena Quiroga, Spanish writer (1921-1995); György Pauk, British violinist (1936); William “Bootsy” Collins, funk bassist (1951).
Days of Death: Andreas Werckmeister, German organist and music theorist (1645-1706); Walter Gieseking, German pianist (1895-1956); Gerty Theresa Cori, US biochemist; Nobel Prize 1947 (1896-1957); Fita Benkhoff, German actress (1901-1967); Alois Forer, east. Organist (1909-2001); Andreas Fulterer, Italian pop singer (1961-2016).
Name days: Wigand, Sigisbald, Bernhard, Evarist, Witta, Albuin, Amanda.