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22.10.1749.
Only four days after they had been built, THE CITY GALLOWS were used: the first execution of two criminals was done; the first one was decapitated and thrown to the fire, while the other one was hanged. After that, the gallows more and more justified its purpose and the whole series or very hard criminals, according to opinion of the time, ended here, so the executor Jozsef Vagner really had a lot of work for a yearly salary of 80 forints, and rightfully, we may say, he asked a raise. Later, the gallows on Staparski put will be built, and the number of executors will grow as well. An interesting thing is that there was a regulation according to which an Orthodox person sentenced to death had to be turned into a Catholic before the execution.
23.10.1883.
In a small town Šarvar in the northwest of Hungary KARLO CVIRŠIC was born, who came to Sombor in 1903, only for a while, to install a city power plant, and who bound his life to this town and left a significant trace by endeavours such as building of the Arena cinema, which is known as Zvezda and by the fact that he persuaded Dulie, a Swiss, to build a dairy plant, today’s "Somboled". At the same time, by his own "Electrician’s Enterprise" from his power-plant in Apatin “Munjara” (“Thunderbolt”) he supplied Apatin, Stapar, Doroslovo, Bački Brestovac, Veprovac and Filipovo with electricity, and he brought electrification to Bajmok, Stari and Novi Sivac, Gakovo, Bačko Gradište, Novi Bečej, Pačir, Stara Moravica, Horgoš, Čantavir, Stanišić. He laid underwater electric cables joining places on the two sides of the Danube - Ilok and Bačka Palanka. He died and was buried in Sombor in 1959.
24.10.1649.
In Sombor a bishop from Belgrade Martin Ibrašimović confirmed 117 Catholics from 30 Bunjevac households. On that occasion he did such and similar religious duties in nearby settlements as well, and after that continued his journey to Kecskemet, to do the same thing.
24.10.1774.
At the expense of Paul Krušper de Varba, a master of Royal goods, on a square in front of the Town Hall, a stone sculpture of the Holy Trinity was placed, in token of gratitude for the end of a frequently occurring plague epidemics. On that occasion sermons in German, Hungarian and I lyric were given, and the presenter gave 100 forints to the Magistrate to maintain the monument. Unfortunately, in 1947 new ideology tore down this characteristic of Sombor and effort to find an aesthetically and functionally satisfactory solution for the square has failed ever since.
26.10.1783.
In Dalj DIMITRIJE ISAJLOVIĆ was born, who, after graduating from the Philosophy School in Pest, for a short period worked as a teacher in the Grammar School in St. Karlovci. Since 1813, when the Teacher-Training School in Sombor went to visit St. Andreja, for the whole 17 years, after coming to Sombor in 1816, he was a teacher of pedagogy, methodology and history of Hungary. Later he went to Serbia to be a private teacher of prince Miloš’s sons and a headmaster of Principality printing shop, as well as the editor of Novine serbske (Serbian Newspaper), a head of the Ministry of Education, a minister of the Privy Council of the Principality of Serbia and the chief supervisor of all of its schools. Knowing many a language, he was the first Serbian lexicographer, one of the founders of the Serbian Society of Literacy and its first vice-chairman. He died in Belgrade on 29 May 1853.
27.10.1763.
The Magistrate meeting was held where it was decided to obtain a cart and two large oak barrels for the founding of the fire brigade. By doing that the town followed an instruction given by the Hungarian council on the obligation of purchase of fire-fighting equipment and its placement and maintenance, which should become more numerous and more modern in time. A suggestion for forming a fund for helping fire victims was not accepted because the citizens were still under the burden of repaying a loan for getting the status of the Free and Royal City.
