Under Tuesday, November 16, the book of history records, among other things:
1866: The first issue of the “Frankfurter Zeitung” appears.
1916: Russia protests against the proclamation of a Kingdom of Poland by the Central Powers.
1941: With the exception of the Sevastopol fortress, the entire Crimean peninsula is under the control of the German attackers.
1956: The UN General Assembly calls for an end to the deportations of Hungarian freedom fighters.
1971: Federal President Franz Jonas is the first Austrian head of state to pay a state visit to Italy. In Rome he is received by President Giuseppe Saragat.
1976: The German Democratic Republic citizenship of the regime-critical songwriter Wolf Biermann for “gross violation of civic duties”.
2001: The “Neue Galerie New York – Museum for German and Austrian Art” opens in New York.
2006: Together with four American colleagues and nine Iraqis, Bert Nussbaumer from Upper Austria is kidnapped in southern Iraq, near the border with Kuwait. He is traveling in a convoy that he is supposed to guard on behalf of the US security company Crescent Security Group. The group “National Islamic Resistance in Iraq – Furqan Brigades” is committed to the kidnapping. She calls for the liberation of all British and US Army prisoners in Iraq. On March 28, 2008 it is announced that Nussbaumer was found dead, and that the four Americans were also murdered.
Birthdays: Hugo Lederer, German sculptor (1871-1940); Hugo Meisl, east. Football official (1881-1937); Fred von Hoerschelmann, German writer (1901-1976); Ton de Leeuw, Dutch Composer (1926-1996); Antonio Gades (also Antonio Esteve Ródenas), Spanish flamenco dancer (1936-2004); Joaquín Navarro Valls, Spanish journalist and Vatican spokesman (1936-2017); Miguel Sandoval, US actor (1951); Alexander Popow, Russian swimmer (1971).
Days of Death: George Graham, British watchmaker (1674-1751); Johann Nepomuk Vogl, east. Scripture (1802-1866); Milton Friedman, US-amer. Economist, Nobel Prize 1976 (1912-2006); William Holden, US film actor (1918-1981).
Name days: Margarethe, Othmar, Albert, Edmund, Walter, Hugo, Alfred, Gottfried, Agnes.
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