Many people however doubted the truthfulness of the report. Before her death in 1989, Empress Zita, widow of the last Austrian emperor, Karl (r. 1916–1918), repeated the claim that the young couple had been murdered as part of a conspiracy to silence Rudolf after he had refused to take part in a French plot to depose his pro-German conservative father and assume the control as a pro-French liberal Austrian emperor. Empress Zita did not offer any new evidence and her claims, howev ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1889 - Events. 1889 - January-April. January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a d ...

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List of suicides - A. Johnny Ace, (1954), singer George Washington Adams, (1829), son of John Quincy Adams, jumped off a boat Robert Adams Jr., (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot self after heavy losses in stock speculation Stuart Adamson, (2001), lead singer of the Scottish bands Big Country and the Skids Chris Adkisson a.k.a. Chris von Erich, (1991), professional wrestler Kerry Adkisson a.k.a Kerry von Erich, (1993), professional wrestler Mike ...

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List of suicides - A. Johnny Ace, (1954), singer George Washington Adams, (1829), son of John Quincy Adams, jumped off a boat Robert Adams Jr., (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot self after heavy losses in stock speculation Stuart Adamson, (2001), lead singer of the Scottish bands Big Country and the Skids Chris Adkisson a.k.a. Chris von Erich, (1991), professional wrestler Kerry Adkisson a.k.a Kerry von Erich, (1993), professional wrestler Mike ...

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Leopold was born in Brussels to Leopold I and Princesse Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle d'Orléans. At an early age he entered the Belgian army, and in Brussels, on August 22, 1853, he was married to Marie Henriette Anne von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduchess of Austria. She was the daughter of Joseph, Archduke of Austria (1776–1847) who was son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792). Leopold II and Marie Henriette Anne's children were: Louise-Marie Amélie, born Brussels February 18, 1858 ...

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An Heir Apparent differs from an Heir Presumptive in that, although an Heir Presumptive may inherit the throne upon the death of the monarch, the status of the Heir Presumptive as first-in-line could be overturned by the birth of another person of superior legal status who would at the moment they were born become the Heir Apparent or the new Heir Presumptive. In effect an Heir Presumptive is the de facto or stand-by first-in-line until someone with a superior legal status in the order of succession, the Heir Apparent or a new Heir Presumptive, is born. Heir Appa ...

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1889 - January-April. January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder suicide) in Mayerling hunting lodge February 11 - Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 February 22 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota ...

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The status of the Heir Apparent is dependent on law. Heir Apparent - Removal of males from superior role in succession. A legal change may deprive the person who was heir apparent of their status and grant it to another individual. For example, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden was heir apparent of Sweden immediately on his birth in 1979. However, one year later he was deprived of that status when a legal change decreed that the King Carl XVI Gustav's oldest child — not, as previously, oldest son — became h ...

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1889 - January-April. January 21 - Edith Bratt, wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (d. 1971) January 31 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958) February 3 - Risto Ryti, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956) February 5 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962) February 19 - Ernest Marsden, British physicist (d. 1970) February 22 - Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977) February 24 - Suzanne Bianchetti, F ...

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Many prominent writers of the time took part in international condemnation of Leopold II's exploitation of the Congo, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Booker T. Washington, and those mentioned below. The American mystic poet Vachel Lindsay wrote: "Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost / Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host / Hear how the demons chuckle and yell / Cutting his hands off, down in Hell." King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild describes the hi ...

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The question of who becomes heir apparent is usually decided either by custom, convention, or by law. Monarchies traditionally gave male children (and their children) precedence on the order of succession ahead of female children, with the oldest male child becoming heir apparent. Hence in the United Kingdom, though she is Queen Elizabeth II's second oldest child, Princess Anne is the lowest ranking in the order of succession of the Queen's children, Princes Charles, Andrew, Edward; as w ...

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Heir Apparent is a technical term that is not used as an actual title. The most common title used for heirs apparent in kingdoms is Crown Prince. In the case of absolute primogeniture, such as in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, a woman can be heir apparent, and thus Crown Princess. In monarchies that are not kingdoms, other titles like Hereditary Grand Duke or ...

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Leopold fervently believed that overseas colonies were the key to a country's greatness, and he worked tirelessly to acquire colonial territory for Belgium. Neither the Belgian people nor the Belgian government were interested, however, and Leopold eventually began trying to acquire a colony in his private capacity as an ordinary citizen. After a number of unsuccessful schemes for colonies in Africa or Asia, in 1876 he organized a private holding company disguised as an international scientific and philanthropic association. In 1879, ...

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Leopold II is perceived by many Belgians as the "King-Builder" ("le Roi-Bâtisseur" in French, "Koning-Bouwer" in Dutch) because he commissioned a great number of buildings and urbanistic projects in Belgium (mainly in Brussels, Ostend and Antwerp). The buildings include the Royal Glasshouses at Laeken (in the domain of the Laeken Royal Castle), the Japanese tower, the Chinese pavilion, the Musée du Congo (now called the Royal Museum for Central Africa) and their surrounding park in Te ...

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In contrast with his deeply conservative father, Crown Prince Rudolf held distinctively liberal views that were closer to those of his mother. Nevertheless his relationship with her was strained and contained little warmth. On May 10, 1881, he married Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, a daughter of King Léopold II, in the Augustinian Church in Vienna with all the pomp and splendour of a state wedding. Rudolf appeared to be genuinely in love, but his mother regarded her new daughter-in-law as a "clumsy oaf." By the time their only child, the Archduchess Elizabeth, was born on September 2, 1883, the cou ...

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