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• Austria joined the European Union (EU), an economic and political union of European countries, on 1 January 1995.^[1]
• Kurt Waldheim, an Austrian diplomat and the 9th President of Austria, served as the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1st January 1972 to 31st December 1981.^[2]

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• Austrian director Michael Haneke's Amour (Love) won the best foreign language Golden Globe award on 13 January 2013.^[3]

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• The 1964 Winter Olympics Games were held in Innsbruck, Austria from January 29 to February 9, 1964.The Innsbruck Games were threatened by a lack of snow. The Austrian army rushed to the rescue, carving out 20,000 blocks of ice from the mountain side and transporting them down to the tracks and skiing slopes.^[4]

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• The 1976 Winter Olympic Games were held in Innsbruck, Austria from 4 to 15 February. Innsbruck hosted the Winter Games for the second time.^[5]

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• Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher won the men’s slalom World Ski Championships on 17 February 2013 in front of a home audience in Schladming, Austria.^[6]

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• Austrian film Amour won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards on 24 February 2013. It is the second time an Austrian film has won the best foreign language film award, following The Counterfeiters in 2008.^[7]
• Austrian film director Stefan Ruzowitzky's film The Counterfeiters won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards on February 24, 2008.^[8]

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• Two Austrian satellites, BRITE-AUSTRIA and UniBRITE, were successfully launched into orbit on 25 February 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India. They are equipped with the smallest astronomical telescope ever built, which is designed to study some of the brightest stars in the sky.^[9]

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• Austrian singer Udo Jürgens won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for the song Merci Chérie. The final took place on March 5, 1966 in Luxembourg.^[10]

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• On March 26, 2011 Austria along with Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia signed a historic declaration to launch a cross-border nature reserve to protect their shared nature and wildlife along the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers, known as 'Europe’s Amazon'.

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• Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke was bestowed with the 2013 Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for the Art for his leading roles in European contemporary cinema.^[11]

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• Austrian director Michael Haneke's sombre drama The White Ribbon claimed the Palme d'Or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, on 24 May 2009.^[12]

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• Austrian director Michael Haneke won the top prize, Palme d'Or, at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his film about love and death, "Amour". It was his second Palme d'Or win.^[13]

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• On 18 July 2012 archeologists from the University of Innsbruck revealed that they found four 600-year-old linen bras in an Austrian castle.^[14]

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• Fritz Pregl from Austria won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances. Pregl was born on September 3, 1869.^[15]

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• Archaeologists discovered remains of a Roman gladiator school on the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna. The find, which has been described as 'one in a million' and ‘sensational’, was presented on 5 September 2011.^[16]

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• Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power.^[17]

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• Austrian born scientist Eric R. Kandel jointly won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2000 for his contributions in the discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.^[18]

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• Austrian Felix Baumgartner broken the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128,100ft (39km) above New Mexico on 14 October 2012. The 43-year-old also became the first person to fall faster than the speed of sound, reaching a top speed of 833.9mph.^[19]

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• The first cooperation agreement between Austria and Cuba in the spheres of art and culture was signed on 2 November 2012 in order to enrich cooperation between the two countries.^[20]

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• Ulla Weigerstorfer, an Austrian TV personality, won the 37th Miss World contest at the age of 20. The event was held on November 12, 1987 in the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ulla became the second titleholder from Austia.^[21]

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• Eva Rueber-Staier from Austria won the Miss World contest on November 22, 1969. She was the first Austrian to win the title.^[21]

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• Austrian journalist Alfred Fried jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 for his work on the establishments of influential peace publications.^[22]
• The Nobel Peace Prize 1905 was awarded to Bertha von Suttner from Austria for her promotion of world peace. She was the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.^[23]

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• Austria was admitted as a member of the United Nations (UN) on 14 December 1955.

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• Austrian ski racer Anna Fenninger had two near-perfect runs to win the women's World Cup giant slalom on 28 December 2012.^[24]

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