On Sunday, January 18th, the book of history records, among other things:
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U1701: With the approval of Emperor Leopold I, Elector Friedrich III crowns himself. of Brandenburg in Königsberg as Frederick I as “King in Prussia”.
1871: King Wilhelm I of Prussia is proclaimed “German Emperor” in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. The founding of the German Empire was a direct result of the Franco-Prussian War that was unleashed in 1870, which ended for France with the collapse of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. ended.
1911: The US test pilot Eugene Ely lands an aircraft on the deck of a ship for the first time, the armored cruiser “Pennsylvania” anchored in San Francisco Bay.
1951:: Premiere of the film “The Sinner” by Willi Forst in the Frankfurt Tower Palace. The film causes a scandal in the Federal Republic of Germany because of a short nude scene by Hildegard Knef.
1986: 93 people die when a commercial airliner crashes in Guatemala.
1991: Gulf War: Iraqi rockets hit Tel Aviv and Haifa. There are injuries and property damage.
1996: The former kk Hoftheater Bühnendepot (Semper Depot), which had been empty for many years, is being reopened as the new studio house of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
2006: In view of violent attacks by BZÖ State Secretary Sigisbert Dolinschek against the Supreme Court, VfGH President Karl Korinek turns to Federal President Heinz Fischer and Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel. Among other things, Dolinschek welcomed the fact that the Constitutional Court ruling on the place-name signs was not being implemented.
Birthdays: François Michel Le Tellier Louvois, French Minister of War (1641-1691); Franz Blei, Eastern writer (1871-1942); Hans Sedlmayr, Eastern art historian (1896-1984); Yōichirō Nambu, Japan. Physicist; Nobel Prize 2008 (1921-2015); Josep “Pep” Guardiola, Spanish football coach (1971).
Todestage: Christian Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (1748-1821); Anton Kuh, Eastern Narrator and essayist (1891-1941); Friedrich Hollaender, German composer (1896-1976); Leonor Fini, Italian painter (1908-1996); Robert Sargent Shriver, US diplomat (1915-2011); Michel Tournier, French writer (1924-2016); Rainer Haungs, German politician (1942-1996); Juan Carlos Tabío, Cuban. film director (1943-2021); Glenn Frey, US rock musician (The Eagles) (1948-2016).
Name days: Priska, Regina, Leonhard, Margit, Ulfried, Margareta, Odila, Susanne.
