1993 Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1992 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1990 A. C. Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
1979 U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov U.S.S.R.
1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA
1979 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.)
1979 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne
1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK
1973 W H Auden, Vienna poet, dies
1972 Petra Schwarz-Ritter, Vienna Aus, tennis star, 1988 Futures-Bari-ITA
1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
1970 Barbara Paulus, born in Vienna, Austria, tennis star
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.)
1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.)
1964 Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
1962 Roger Kingdom, Vienna, Georgia, 110m hurdler, Olympics gold 1984, 88
1961 John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1955 Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence
1955 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB
1955 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Bowden of CAN
1955 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright U.S.
1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1947 Marisa Berenson, New York City, actress, Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB
1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43
1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
1941 Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress, Cast a Giant Shadow
1940 Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress, Star Trek 2, Beast Within
1939 Walter Weller, Vienna Austria, conductor, Vienna Tonkustler Orch
1938 Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress, Bloodline, Death Watch
1935 Susan Engel, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, Ascendancy
1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 Philippe Entremont, born in France, pianist/conductor, Vienna Chamber Orch
1928 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano, Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54
1928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker, New York Big MAC Bonds
1928 Vanessa Brown, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, My Favorite Husband
1928 Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera
1927 Teresa Stich-Randall, U.S. soprano, Vienna State Opera
1927 Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist, Mozart Interpretation
1926 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
1926 Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress, Space 1999
1924 Arnold Schonbergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1924 Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer
1923 Interpol forms in Vienna
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor, Vienna Symph 1960-70
1923 Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna
1923 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1921 Julius Rudel, born in Vienna Austria, conductor, New York City Opera 1957
1920 Turhan Bey, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Dragon Seed, Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
1918 Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor, Assignment Vienna
1917 Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor, Shadow of the Cloak
1913 Hedy Lamarr, born in Vienna, Austria, actress, Ecstacy, Samson and Delilah
1913 Kurt Kaszner, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants
1912 Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer, Vienna Blood
1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1912 Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor and banana eater
1910 Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
1910 John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor, Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes
1910 Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist
1909 Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor, Belarus File
1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
1909 Stephen Harold Spender, England, poet and critic, Vienna, Edge of Darkness
1908 Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna
1908 Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor, Address Unknown, Hitler
1907 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1907 Leon Askin, Vienna Austria, actor, Pierre-Charlie Farrell Show
1907 Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1906 Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17
1906 Carl Esmond, Wien, Vienna, Austria, actor, Smash-Up
1905 Arnold Schonberg's "Pelleas und Melissande," premieres in Vienna
1904 Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress, Garden of Allah
1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood
1903 Rene Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer, Concepts of Criticism
1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1902 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der arne Heinrich," premieres in Vienna
1902 Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna
1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General
1902 Josef Krips, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, London Symph 1954-63
1902 Schonberg's "Verklarte Nacht," premieres in Vienna
1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1902 Rudolf Moralt, German conductor, Vienna Philharmonic
1900 Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], Vienna Austria, actor, Laura
1900 Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer, Johnny Spielt Auf
1900 Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress, Catherine the Great
1900 Ludwig Donath, born in Vienna Austria, actor, Torn Curtain, Sirocco
1898 Lotte Lenya, Vienna Austria, actor/singer, Appointment, Semi-Tough
1898 Oscar Homolka, Vienna Austria, actor, I Remember Mama
1897 John Wengraf, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, 12 to Moon, Pride and Passion
1897 Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress, Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek
1896 Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress, House of Games, Flashdance, Charly
1895 Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor, Joseph Schildkraut Presents
1893 Clemens Krauss, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, Berlin State Orch-1937
1892 Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna
1891 Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent
1890 Erich Kleiber, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, NBC Symphony 1945-46
1889 Ricardo Cortez, [Jack Krantz], Vienna Austria, actor/dir, Blackmail
1888 Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer, Gone With Wind
1887 Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer, Melodie Lehre
1887 Paul Wittgenstein, Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1887 Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer, Vienna Opera
1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1885 Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna
1885 Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna
1885 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
1883 Anton, Friedrich Wilhelm, von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
1882 Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1881 Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist, Beware of Pity
1877 Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
1875 Theodor Innitzer, cardinal and archbishop Vienna
1875 Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist and composer
1874 Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer, 2nd Quartet
1874 "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed, in Vienna
1874 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Vienna
1873 International Exhibition opens in Vienna
1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
1871 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer, Schneeman
1870 Oscar Straus, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, Ein Walzertraum
1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna)
1869 Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, poet, Symbolic Wounds
1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island
1861 Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria, 1908-18
1860 Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer, Donna Diana
1856 Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Neˆrlands blood), dies at 76
1849 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna
1847 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
1844 Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna
1838 Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna
1834 Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
1828 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74
1825 Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna
1824 Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1823 Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1818 Franz Grillparzer's "Sappho," premieres in Vienna
1817 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna
1809 Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, Fren psychologist, dementia praecox
1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, composer
1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1808 Paul "the Great" Taglioni, Vienna, ballet choreographer
1806 French evacuate Vienna
1805 Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1802 Eduard von Bauernfeld, Vienna, comedic playwright
1799 Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna
1797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna
1795 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1794 Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1792 D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35
1791 Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
1791 Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer, Schule der Virtuosen
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1785 Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1784 Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
1782 Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1780 Henry F. C. Tollens, merchant/poet, Vienna Neˆrlands Blood
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1762 Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1762 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1752 Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1731 Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands
1725 Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1723 J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1683 Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski
1683 Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1668 Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1624 Hung king Bethlen Gabor and emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1557 Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor, 1612-19
1532 Sultan Suleiman through Hungary on away to Vienna
1529 Sultan Suleiman II ceases Vienna
1522 Martin Siebenburger, mayor of Vienna, beheaded
1515 Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire
1462 Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1365 University of Vienna founded
1312 Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
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