In order to strengthen the dominance of these countries in European football and to financially support the professional clubs, the introduction of the Mitropa Cup was decided at a meeting in Venice on July 17, following the initiative of the head of the Austrian Football Association ( ÖFB ), Hugo Meisl.

Austria qualified for the World Cup, but after qualification was complete, the Anschluss united Austria with Germany and Austria withdrew from the tournament, with some Austrian players joining the German squad.

* Fritz Strobl, Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer

He won 29 Davis Cup singles matches on that surface and 38 overall, far more than any other Austrian.

Muster then moved back to Austria, where he has served as coach of the Austrian Davis Cup team and established a brand named Toms that has included apparel, wine, and bottled water.

2008 Austrian Cup winner SV Horn is the local soccer club.

2009 saw the establishment of the Austrian Touch League ( ATL ) plus the first ever national Touch teams ( Mixed and Mens ) that competed in the 2009 Mainland Cup.

* January 29 – death of Ulrike Maier ( 26 ), Austrian skier, who broke her neck when she crashed during a World Cup downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen

European goals soon followed ; a penalty kick against Sevilla in AEK's unsuccessful UEFA Champions League qualifier, and a bicycle kick in their UEFA Cup first round thumping of the Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg.

In 1999, under the guidance of the Czech manager Dušan Uhrin, Maccabi Haifa beat French giants Paris Saint-Germain and Austrian club SV Ried to reach the quarter-final of the Cup Winners ' Cup.

Participating in local races, Maier became a multiple regional champion in Salzburg and Tyrol, but still was not able to gain a spot in the strong Austrian World Cup ski team.

Putting that behind him, his outstanding talent was recognized for the first time by Austrian coaches on 6 January 1996, when he was timed with the 12th fastest time in a World Cup giant slalom in Flachau, although only starting as a forerunner, not participating in the actual competition.

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell ( 15 January 1926, Vienna – 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia, Austria ) was an Austrian / Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise.

Under Austrian coach Ernst Happel, Club Brugge reached the finals of the UEFA Cup and lost against Liverpool ( 3 – 2 and 1 – 1 ).

Rainer Schönfelder ( born June 13, 1977 ) is an Austrian skier who won the 2003-2004 men's World Cup slalom title.

New coach Sepp Herberger was told on short notice to use also Austrian players in his team, which was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup, weakening the situation of football within Nazi politics to near meaninglessness.

Already on 28 March, FIFA was notified that the Austrian FA had been abolished, meaning also withdrawal from the World Cup, with the German team representing also Austria.

After the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Kovač left Hertha BSC after three seasons for Austrian Bundesliga side Red Bull Salzburg.

* Austrian Cup:

They are considered the most successful club in Austria having won the highest Austrian Bundesliga 23 times, the Austrian Cup 27 times and the Austrian Supercup 6 times.

In the beginning of the ' 90s, FK Austria enjoyed its so far last successful era: three championship titles ( seasons 1990 – 1991, 1991 – 1992, 1992 – 1993 ; but less brilliant goal differences (+ 39, + 37, + 46 ) than the seasons 1983 – 1984, 1984 – 1985, 1985 – 1986 (+ 56, + 68, + 71 )), three cup titles ( seasons 1989 – 1990, 1991 – 1992, 1993 – 1994 ) as well as four Super cup titles ( Austrian national champion vs. Cup winner ) ( 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 ) were won.

The crossing of the St. Bernard Pass had allowed the French to surprise the Austrian army and win victory at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800.

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller ( 14 October 1945 — 13 November 1992 ), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer.

Ludwig Alois Friedrich Ritter von Köchel (; 14 January 1800 – 3 June 1877 ) was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist and publisher.

* April 14 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1632 )

* August 14 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor ( b. 1894 )

* July 14 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist ( d. 1918 )

* June 14 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1943 )

* July 14 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal ( b. 1717 )

* June 14 – Battle of Marengo: Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.

* January 14 – Ludwig von Köchel, Austrian musicologist ( d. 1877 )

* March 14 – Johann Strauss Senior, Austrian composer ( d. 1849 )

* May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.

* September 14 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer ( d. 1806 )

* October 14 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1798 )

* November 14 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer ( d. 1787 )

Trade with these countries accounts for almost 14 % of Austrian imports and exports, and Austrian firms have sizable investments in and continue to move labour-intensive, low-tech production to these countries.

The name of the county commemorates Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Marengo over the Austrian armies on June 14, 1800.

On 14 November Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defence of Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.

The Austrian army had been defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Marengo on 14 June 1800 and then by Moreau at the Battle of Hohenlinden on 3 December.

28. 6 % were of Slovene, 14. 3 % German, 11. 9 % English, 9. 5 % Norwegian and 7. 1 % Austrian ancestry according to Census 2000.

Johann Strauss I ( March 14, 1804 – September 25, 1849 ; ; also Johann Baptist Strauss, Johann Strauss, Sr., the Elder, the Father ), born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty.

It bears the name of Napoleon's early victory against the Austrian army, at the battle of Rivoli, fought January 14 and 15, 1797.

The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.