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2011 Event - The funeral for the final heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto von Habsburg, occurs in Vienna, attended by monarchs and members of the political elite 2007 Death - Kurt Waldheim, dies in Vienna, Austria, of heart failure, at 88 2006 Death - Otto Zykan, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim', dies in Sachsendorf, Austria 2002 Death - Jean Berger, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, dies at 91 1996 Death - Nicu Ceausescu, son of Romanian President, Nicolae Ceasescu, drinker, gambler, playboy, imprisoned for misusing government funds, dies at 45 in Vienna, Austria 1993 Death - Lucia Popp, Czechoslovakia/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54 1992 Event - Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire 1990 Event - A. C. Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna 1988 Event - "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna 1987 Death - Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1987 Event - Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna 1986 Event - "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18 1985 Event - Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi 1979 Event - U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps 1979 Event - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R. 1979 Event - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA 1979 Event - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.) 1979 Event - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne 1975 Event - Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna 1974 Event - Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK 1973 Death - W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies 1972 Birthday - Petra Schwarz-Ritter, Vienna Aus, tennis star, 1988 Futures-Bari-ITA 1972 Event - 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria 1970 Birthday - Barbara Paulus, born in Vienna, Austria, tennis star 1967 Event - 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum 1967 Event - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) 1967 Event - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) 1967 Event - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) 1967 Event - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) 1964 Event - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna 1962 Birthday - Roger Kingdom, Vienna, Georgia, 110m hurdler, Gold Medals 1984, 1988 Olympics 1961 Event - John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna 1958 Birthday - Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition 1957 Birthday - Johann Hoelzel Falco, born in Vienna, Austria, musician, singer, songwriter, hip pop, new wave, electro pop genres, hits include 'Der Kommissar', 'Rock Me Amadeus' 1955 Event - New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria) 1955 Event - Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence 1955 Event - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB 1955 Event - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Bowden of CAN 1955 Event - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright U.S. 1954 Death - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61 1947 Birthday - Marisa Berenson, New York City, actress, Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB 1945 Event - Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) 1945 Death - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43 1943 Event - 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp 1941 Birthday - Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress, Cast a Giant Shadow 1940 Birthday - Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress, Star Trek 2, Beast Within 1939 Birthday - Walter Weller, Vienna Austria, conductor, Vienna Tonkustler Orchestra 1938 Birthday - Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch 1935 Birthday - Otto Zykan, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim' 1935 Birthday - Susan Engel, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, Ascendancy 1934 Event - Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna 1934 Birthday - Philippe Entremont, born in France, pianist/conductor, Vienna Chamber Orchestra 1932 Birthday - Igor Stuhec, born in Slovenia, composer, studied under Hanns Jelinek at Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, wrote orchestral works applying textural techniques, and two operas 1931 Birthday - Raoul Pleskow, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, studied with Otto Luenig, served on music faculty at C.W. Post College, Long Island University 1928 Birthday - Walter Klien, born in Graz, Austria, pianist, performed and recorded concertos of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert piano sonatas, received Bosendorfter Prize in Vienna, 1953 1928 Birthday - Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano, Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54 1928 Birthday - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker, New York Big MAC Bonds 1928 Birthday - Vanessa Brown, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, My Favorite Husband 1928 Birthday - Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera 1927 Birthday - Teresa Stich-Randall, U.S. soprano, Vienna State Opera 1927 Birthday - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist, Mozart Interpretation 1926 Event - 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna 1926 Birthday - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress, Space 1999 1925 Birthday - Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence 1924 Event - Arnold Schonbergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna 1924 Birthday - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer 1923 Event - Interpol forms in Vienna 1923 Birthday - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor, Vienna Symph 1960-70 1923 Event - Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna 1923 Event - Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna 1921 Birthday - Ernest Gold, born in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Gold, composer, wrote nearly 100 film and television scores, including It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, On the Beach, four Academy-Award nominations, three Golden Globe nominations 1921 Birthday - H. C. Artmann, born in Vienna, Australia, born Hans Carl Artmann, also known as Ib Hansen, writer, poet, celebrated for his early Viennese poems 1921 Birthday - Julius Rudel, born in Vienna Austria, conductor, New York City Opera 1957 1920 Birthday - Turhan Bey, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Dragon Seed, Ali Baba and 40 Thieves 1919 Event - Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna 1918 Birthday - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor, Assignment Vienna 1917 Birthday - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor, Shadow of the Cloak 1913 Birthday - Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, Ecstacy, Samson and Delilah 1913 Birthday - Kurt Kaszner, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants 1912 Birthday - Tiny Alma, Catharina E J Stam, operetta singer, Vienna Blood 1912 Event - Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna 1910 Death - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65 1910 Birthday - John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor, Sergeant Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes 1910 Birthday - Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist 1909 Birthday - Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others 1909 Birthday - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor, Belarus File 1909 Birthday - Alfred Uhl, born in Austria, composer, professor, studied at Vienna Music Academy with Franz Schmidt, vibrant style combined neo-classicism, atonality, serialism, works include concerto for clarinet and orchestra 1909 Event - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna 1909 Birthday - Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness 1908 Event - Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna 1908 Birthday - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor, Address Unknown, Hitler 1907 Event - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna 1907 Birthday - Leon Askin, Vienna Austria, actor, Pierre-Charlie Farrell Show 1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna. 1907 Event - Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna 1907 Birthday - Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs 1906 Birthday - Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17 1906 Birthday - Carl Esmond, Wien, Vienna, Austria, actor, Smash-Up 1905 Event - Arnold Schonberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna 1904 Birthday - Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress, Garden of Allah 1904 Birthday - Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood 1903 Birthday - Rene Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer, Concepts of Criticism 1903 Event - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna 1902 Event - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der arne Heinrich," premieres in Vienna 1902 Event - Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna 1902 Birthday - Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General 1902 Birthday - Josef Krips, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, London Symph 1954-63 1902 Event - Schonberg's "Verklarte Nacht," premieres in Vienna 1902 Birthday - Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1902 Event - Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna 1902 Birthday - Rudolf Moralt, German conductor, Vienna Philharmonic 1901 Birthday - Stefan Lorant, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, made fourteen films in Vienna and Berlin, opposed to Adolph Hitler, imprisoned, wrote memoir 'I was Hitler's Prisoner' 1900 Birthday - Anton Walbrook, Adolf Wohlbrook, Vienna Austria, actor, Laura 1900 Birthday - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer, Johnny Spielt Auf 1900 Birthday - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress, Catherine the Great 1900 Birthday - Ludwig Donath, born in Vienna Austria, actor, Torn Curtain, Sirocco 1898 Birthday - Lotte Lenya, Vienna Austria, actor/singer, Appointment, Semi-Tough 1898 Birthday - Oscar Homolka, Vienna Austria, actor, I Remember Mama 1897 Birthday - John Wengraf, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, 12 to Moon, Pride and Passion 1897 Birthday - Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress, Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek 1896 Birthday - Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress, House of Games, Flashdance, Charly 1895 Birthday - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor, Joseph Schildkraut Presents 1893 Birthday - Clemens Krauss, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, Berlin State Orchestra 1937 1892 Event - Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna 1891 Birthday - Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent 1890 Birthday - Erich Kleiber, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, NBC Symphony 1945-46 1890 Birthday - Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1889 Birthday - Ricardo Cortez, Jack Krantz, Vienna Austria, actor/dir, Blackmail 1888 Birthday - Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer, Gone With Wind 1887 Birthday - Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer, Melodie Lehre 1887 Birthday - Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist 1887 Birthday - Maria Jeritza, Jedlicka, Austria, singer, Vienna Opera 1886 Event - Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna 1885 Event - Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna 1885 Event - Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna 1885 Birthday - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer! 1883 Birthday - Anton, Friedrich Wilhelm, von Webern, born in Vienna, Austria, 12-tone composer 1882 Birthday - Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna, Austria, 80th Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 1881 Event - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 1881 Birthday - Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity 1877 Event - Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna 1875 Birthday - Theodor Innitzer, cardinal and archbishop Vienna 1875 Birthday - Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist and composer 1874 Birthday - Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer, 2nd Quartet 1874 Event - "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed, in Vienna 1874 Event - Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna 1874 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna 1873 Event - Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna 1873 Event - International Exhibition opens in Vienna 1872 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna 1871 Birthday - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer, Schneeman 1870 Birthday - Oscar Straus, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, Ein Walzertraum 1869 Event - 1st postcards are issued (Vienna) 1869 Birthday - Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet, Symbolic Wounds 1867 Event - Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna 1861 Event - Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island 1861 Birthday - Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria, 1908-18 1860 Birthday - Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer, Donna Diana 1856 Death - Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Nearlands blood), dies at 76 1849 Event - Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna 1847 Event - Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna) 1844 Birthday - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna 1838 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna 1834 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna 1828 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna 1827 Event - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna 1826 Event - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna 1825 Death - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74 1825 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna 1824 Event - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna 1823 Event - Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna 1821 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna 1818 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna 1817 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna 1809 Birthday - Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, French psychologist, dementia praecox 1809 Birthday - Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, composer 1808 Event - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna 1808 Birthday - Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer 1806 Event - French evacuate Vienna 1805 Event - Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna 1802 Birthday - Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright 1799 Event - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna 1797 Event - Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna 1795 Event - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England 1795 Event - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna 1794 Event - Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna 1792 Event - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn 1792 Event - D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna 1791 Death - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35 1791 Event - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna 1791 Birthday - Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer, Schule der Virtuosen 1790 Event - Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna 1790 Event - Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna 1786 Event - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) 1785 Event - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna 1784 Event - Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna) 1782 Event - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna 1780 Birthday - Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Nearlands Blood 1777 Event - University library at Vienna opens 1762 Event - Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg 1762 Event - Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna) 1752 Event - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna 1732 Event - Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna 1731 Event - Spain signs Treaty of Vienna 1731 Event - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands 1725 Event - Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna 1723 Death - J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66 1706 Event - Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established 1683 Event - Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski 1683 Event - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna 1683 Event - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna 1670 Event - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna 1670 Event - Vienna Austria expels Jews 1670 Event - Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna 1668 Event - Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna 1668 Event - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued 1624 Event - Hungarian king Bethlen Gabor and emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna 1557 Birthday - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor, 1612-19 1532 Event - Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna 1529 Event - Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna 1522 Death - Martin Siebenburger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded 1515 Event - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire 1462 Event - Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna 1396 Event - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna 1365 Event - University of Vienna founded 1312 Event - Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna 1312 Event - 2nd council of Vienna 1267 Event - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb 1192 Event - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna |
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