Tagesspiegel: September 25, 1956: The first transatlantic telephone cable between Europe and North America goes into operation.

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On Saturday, September 25th, the book of history records, among other things:

1066: King Harold of England beats Harald Hardrade of Norway and the pretender to the throne Tostig at Stamford Bridge.
1396: Sultan Bajasid I defeats a crusader army under King Sigismund of Hungary at Nicopolis, Bulgaria becomes an Ottoman province (until 1908).
1926: World premiere of the play “Mann ist Mann” by Berthold Brecht in Darmstadt.
1956: The first transatlantic telephone cable between Europe and North America goes into operation.
2001: Only three percent of those entitled to vote take part in the election to the ORF public council. The result means a success for the SPÖ, which advertised the prominent winners.
2006: The decision of the Deutsche Oper Berlin to suspend the revival of an “Idomeneo” production by Hans Neuenfels from 2003 caused a stir. The production, in which the severed heads of Mohammed and other religious founders are shown at the end, represents an “incalculable security risk” for the house. After a wave of indignation and a review of the situation by the police, the production is set for December but scheduled again.
2006: Justice Minister Karin Gastinger leaves the BZÖ a few days before the election because she no longer wants to support its policy on foreigners. After days of speculation, there was no direct offer by the ÖVP to accept her as party-independent in the next government.

Birthdays: Thomas Morgan, US geneticist, 1933 Nobel Prize (1866-1945); Elsa Triolet, French writer (1896-1970); Alessandro Pertini, Italian politician (1896-1990); Robert Bresson, French film director (1901-1999); José Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rican. Politician (1906-1990); Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (1906-1975); Erwin Barth von Wehrenalp, eastern / German Publisher (1911-1996); Herbert Pichler, (called “Mondpichler”) east. Doctor, journalist, television commentator and entrepreneur; Space medicine; 1949 Foundation of the drug manufacturing company “Sigmapharm”; 1969 commentator, together with Hugo Portisch, of the first moon landing on ORF (1921-2018); August Kühn, German writer (1936-1996); Heather Locklear, US film actress (1961); Jason Flemyng, British actor (1966).
Days of Death: Philip I, the Handsome, King of Castile (1478-1506); Heinrich George, German actor (1893-1946); Nikolaj Nikolajewitsch Semjonow, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize 1956 (1896-1986); Jo Hanns Rösler, German writer (1899-1966); Arnold Palmer, US golf legend (1929-2016); Sissy Löwinger, east. Actress (1941-2011).
Name days: Klaus, Nikolaus, Firmin, Richardis, Hermanfried, Kleophas, Aurelia, Nils, Sergius, Gottfried, Irmfried.

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