25 June – The Far right
National Democratic Party (Austria) was banned by a verdict of the
Constitutional Court of Austria on the basis of the
Verbotsgesetz 1947. In its explanatory statement the court determined that the NDP's "key principles and demands" are based on "biological-racist ideology ("Volksbegriff")" and also that its "pan-German Propaganda" is in agreement with the main goals of the
Nazi Party.
19 October – The newspaper Der Standard is first published.[4]
26 October – 20 year old
Alexandra Schriefl is murdered in
Favoriten, Vienna. Her murder remains unsolved until September 2000.[5]