On Sunday, June 27, the book of history records, among other things:
1626: Upper Austrian peasant uprising: Linz is completely enclosed by Stefan Fadinger’s peasant army.
1866: In the war between Austria and Prussia, around 20,000 soldiers fight against the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia near Langensalza (until June 29). (Austria was allied with Saxony, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Hanover, Hessen-Darmstadt, Kurhessen and Nassau, Prussia with most of the north German small and medium-sized states).
1921: In the German Reich, the resident services are dissolved, and participation in them is made a criminal offense.
1926: The “Frankfurter Zeitung” begins with the preprint of the historical novel “Der Teufel” by Alfred Neumann.
1936: In Dresden, the women’s film “schlussakkord “(directed by Detlef Sierck) with Lil Dagover and Willy Birgel will be premiered.
1941: German troops capture Minsk and Bobruisk. Hungary declares war on the Soviet Union.
1961: The ÖMV refinery Schwechat (Lower Austria) is handed over to its destination.
1976: Air pirates hijack a French airliner with 258 occupants to Entebbe (Uganda), where 103 hostages – the others had since been released – are freed by an Israeli commando on July 4th.
1976: At the economic summit in Puerto Rico, the seven leading industrial nations of the world (later G-7) sit at one table for the first time.
1976: The halls of the St. Marx slaughterhouse in Vienna, in which the “Arena” was installed on the occasion of the festival weeks, will be occupied by 400 young artists.
1986: The International Court of Justice in The Hague declares US aid to Nicaraguan rebels (Contras) illegal.
1986: The Italian government under Bettino Craxi resigns after a defeat in parliament.
1991: The Yugoslav civil war begins with the deployment of the federal army against Croatia and Slovenia. Army units advance on the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. There is fighting to control several border crossings to Austria.
2006: The Brazilian star striker Ronaldo, who was criticized in the run-up to the tournament in Germany for being overweight, has become the all-time record goal scorer at soccer world championships. The 29-year-old scored his 15th goal in the final in Brazil’s 3-0 win in the round of 16 against Ghana, thus surpassing the leading German Gerd Müller (14).
2006: The 16-year-old Julia Kührer disappears without a trace in Pulkau in the Weinviertel. Despite an intensive private search and international police searches, there was no trace of the Lower Austrian until June 2011. Then her cremated body is discovered on the property of an ex-video store operator in the village. The 52-year-old, who denies the crime, will be sentenced to life imprisonment in September 2013. In March 2014, the Vienna Higher Regional Court reduced the sentence to 20 years imprisonment. An application to resume the proceedings was also rejected in the second instance by the OLG in March 2019.
2011: The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) added 111 pile dwellings and relics of prehistoric settlements, including five from Austria, to the World Heritage List, following a joint application from several European countries. The sites are the first archaeological underwater monuments with the World Heritage title.
2016: Italian actor Bud Spencer dies in Rome at the age of 86. At the side of Terence Hill, Spencer achieved world fame as a good-natured and heavyweight hero in action comedies such as “Four Fists for a Hallelujah” (1971) or “Two strong guys” (1983).
Birthdays: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (1846-1891); John M. Shalikashvili, US Chief of Staff (1936-2011); Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (1941-1996); Mary McAleese, Irish politician, President 1997-2011 (1951).
Days of Death: Joseph Meyer, German publisher and bookseller (1796-1856); Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japan. Politician (1880-1946); Albert Broccoli, US film producer (1909-1996); Jack Lemmon, US actor (1925-2001); Bud Spencer (formerly Carlo Pedersoli), Italian actor (1929-2016); Udo Proksch, east. Entrepreneur (1934-2001); Franz Cibulka, east Composer (1946-2016).
Name days: Emma, Harald, Robert, Emma biggest Philip, Cyrill, Gerhoch, orange, growing, Theonestus, Heimeradus.
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