Tagesspiegel: September 22, 1656: In Patuxent, Maryland, a jury box is occupied only with women for the first time.

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On Wednesday, September 22nd, the book of history records, among other things:

1656: In Patuxent, Maryland, for the first time a jury box is filled with women only.
1776: The American revolutionary Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British.
1951: Opening of the Limbergsperre, the main stage of the Tauern power plant in Kaprun.
1961: The Argentine Antonio Abertondo is the first person to swim the English Channel with a four-minute break in France in both directions, he needs a total of 43:10 hours.
1961: The World Bank conference with representatives from over 70 countries meets in the Vienna Hofburg.
1961: The Foreign Ministers of Italy and Austria, Antonio Segni and Bruno Kreisky, meet in New York for talks on South Tyrol.
1971: The Swiss People’s Party is founded in Bern.
1976: The US probe Viking discovers the ice caps on the Mars poles.
1976: Portugal joins the Council of Europe.
1976: The Shopping City Süd is opened by Hans Dujsik. It is one of the largest shopping centers in Europe.
1981: In street battles after the evacuation of occupied houses in Berlin, an 18-year-old protester gets under a bus and is killed.
1981: French President François Mitterrand opens the TGV high-speed railway line Paris – Lyon. The trains run at 260 km / h.
1986: The Conference on Confidence-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (KVAE) will be concluded in Stockholm with a final document which, among other things, provides for mandatory reporting for maneuvers and the obligation to invite foreign observers from 1987 onwards.
1991: In the Styrian state elections, the ÖVP loses an absolute majority after 26 years. The SPÖ loses slightly, the FPÖ, on the other hand, can more than triple its share of the vote and the Greens, who have competed separately, have to move out of the state parliament.
1991: The Armenians vote in a referendum with an overwhelming majority for state independence.
2001: In the USA, an employee of the “New York Post” is infected with skin anthrax when opening a letter.
2006: Serious accident with the Transrapid maglev train on its German test track: 23 people are killed when the maglev train crashes into a work platform occupied by two people at around 200 kilometers per hour.
2006: Austria’s first urban SOS Children’s Village opens in Vienna’s 21st district.

Birthdays: Shams Ad Ibn Challikan, arab. Biographer and islam. Legal scholar (1211-1282); Anna of Austria, Queen of France (1601-1666); Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist (1791-1867); Hermann Holthusen, German radiologist (1886-1971); Edmund Nick, German composer (1891-1974); Hans Albers, German actor (1891-1960); Charles B. Huggins, US surgeon and cancer researcher; Nobel Prize 1966 (1901-1997); William O. Smith, US clarinetist / composer (1926); Nello Santi, Italian conductor (1931-1995); Wolfgang Petry, German pop singer and songwriter (1951); Ronaldo, former Brazilian footballer (1976).
Days of Death: Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (1760-1826); Julius Stockhausen, German baritone (1826-1906); Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria. Writer (1850-1921); Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize 1921 (1877-1956); Albin Skoda, east. Actor (1909-1961); Isaac Stern, US violinist of Russian origin (1920-2001).
Name days: Moritz, Thomas, Mauritus, Gunthilde, Emmeran, Landelin, Otto, Gunilla, Ignatius.

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