On Sunday, April 4, the book of history records, among other things:
1081: After his violent seizure of power, the new Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos founded the Komnenos dynasty, which ruled for over a century. (A princess from this family – Theodora Komnena, niece of Emperor Manuel I – married the Austrian Babenberg duke Heinrich II. Jasomirgott.)
1581: Sir Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.
1896: The first issue of the political-satirical weekly “Simplicissimus” appears in Munich.
1901: The “Celtic”, the largest ship in the world to date, is launched in Belfast.
1916: Austrian planes bomb Ancona.
1921: In competition with the Bauhaus, the State University of Fine Arts is founded in Weimar.
1921: The first attempt at restoration by Emperor Charles I to regain the apostolic dignity of Hungary fails: at Szombathely (Steinamanger) he is forced to repent.
1931: Charlie Chaplin’s film “City Lights” opens in European cinemas.
1936: Federal Chancellor Schuschnigg receives the secret report from the General Directorate for Public Security on the extent of the illegal Nazi movement.
1941: German troops occupy Benghazi in Libya.
1941: The film “Ohm Krüger” with Emil Jannings is premiered in Berlin.
1976: Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat announces that he has banned the Soviet fleet from using the country’s ports.
2006: Rainhard Fendrich is caught buying drugs by the police and confesses to having used cocaine for many years during the interrogation.
2006: After numerous arrests and a large-scale search, the bodies of the two Austrians missing in Bolivia are discovered in an illegal cemetery. The Viennese couple on a world tour disappeared in La Paz on January 26th. The 28-year-old and his three-year-old girlfriend were kidnapped by a gang, their account ransacked, and they themselves were ultimately killed. The head of the criminal is arrested in August.
2011: Launch of the Russian spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-21” from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS), which it will reach on April 6th. As part of the ISS program, the flight is designated ISS AF-26S. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight, the spaceship is named “Yuri Gagarin”. On September 16, the return capsule lands in the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Birthdays: Pierre Auguste Comte de Lautréamont, frz. Avant-Garde Poet (1846-1870); Maurice de Vlaminck, frz. Painter / Graphic Artist (1876-1958); Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (1896-1955); Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, East. Author (1901-1991); Nikola Ljubičić, Yugoslav. Politician (1916-2005); Ann-Kathrin Kramer, dt. Actress (1966); Dietmar “Didi” Kühbauer, öst. Soccer coach and former. Soccer Player (1971).
Days of Death: Formosus, Italian Pope (816? -896); Franz Anton Graf von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, east. Statesman; 1826-1848 Minister of State and Conference, 1848 first Prime Minister of the Austrian Empire (1778-1861); August Thyssen, German industrialist (1842-1926); André Michelin, French industrialist (1853-1931); Harry Nyquist, Swedish physicist (1889-1976); Ernst Schönwiese, east. Writer (1905-1991); Max Frisch, Switzerland. Writer (1911-1991); Jürgen Thorwald, German writer (1915-2006); Dieter Haspel, east. Director (1943-2016).
Name days: Seville, Ambrose Engelburg, Platon, Konrad Benedict, Basil Zosimus Theodulo, Heinrich.
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