On Friday, September 27th, the book of history records, among other things:
1854: First disaster involving an Atlantic liner: After a collision, the American passenger ship “Arctic” sank off Cape Race with more than 300 people on board.
1914: French and British troops in West Africa move into Cameroon, which had been a German “protected area” since 1884.
1934: The governments of Great Britain, France and Italy publish a joint statement on the need to preserve the independence and integrity of Austria.
1939: Almost four weeks after the German attack on Poland, Warsaw capitulated. President Ignacy Mościcki and the government flee to Romania.
1964: After ten months of investigations in Washington, the Warren Commission publishes its investigative report in which it concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald carried out the assassination attempt on President John F. Kennedy alone in Dallas in 1963.
1974: Construction begins on the 6.7 kilometer long motorway tunnel through the Pfände near Bregenz.
2009: The German federal election brings a stable black-yellow majority. This means that Chancellor Angela Merkel can form a new government made up of the CDU/CSU and FDP. The SPD, which has previously co-governed, is experiencing its worst Bundestag result to date.
Birthdays: Cosimo de Medici, Florentine. banker, statesman (1389-1464); Jakob Alt, German/Eastern painter (1789-1872); Cyril Scott, British composer (1879-1970); Joe Stoeckel, German film actor (1894-1959); Otto Nagel, German painter (1894-1967); Earl “Bud” Powell, US jazz musician (1924-1966); Greg Morris, US actor (1934-1996) (naA *1933 or 1935); Avril Lavigne, Canadian. Pop singer (1984).
Days of death: Aristide Maillol, French sculptor, painter and graphic artist (1861-1944); Hans Grimm, German writer (1875-1959); Donal McLaughlin, American Architect and graphic artist (Emblem of the United Nations) (1907-2009); Harry de Groot, Dutch Composer (1920-2004).
Name days: Vinzenz, Hiltrud, Adolf, Gotthelf, Dietrich, Paul, Markus, Delphina, Siegbert, Karl, Amadeus.
