What happened like today in Greece and the world.
1703: A devastating earthquake in Tokyo kills 37,000 people.
1822: Battle of Amfissa and recapture of the city by the Turks.
1824: Theodoros Kolokotronis surrenders to the government during the civil war.
1871: Victoria Woodhall publishes the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels for the first time in the USA.
1903: Six hundred people die in a great fire at the Iraquois Theater in Chicago.
1918: Eleftherios Venizelos articulates with his famous memorandum to the Paris Peace Conference the Greek claims in Asia Minor, Thrace, Northern Epirus, the Aegean islands and Cyprus.
1922: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed in Moscow.
1934: The contract for the establishment of a radio station in Greece is signed.
1941: The first Liberty ship is launched in the US. It will make a decisive contribution to the renaissance of Greek shipping after the war.
1944: Andreas Empirikos is arrested at his home by OPLA and passes a popular court in Peristeri. ELAS takes him hostage, but he escapes somewhere in Thebes. He returns to Athens, barefoot, with wounds and frostbite on his feet, terribly exhausted.
1947: King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate and the monarchy is overthrown. The country’s government becomes a People’s Democracy.
1950: The Battalion of the Hellenic Expeditionary Force Korea, attached to the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, undertakes the first combat mission in Korea and is deployed defensively in the vital area of Kyumko-ri, near Seoul.
1963: At the suggestion of the Prime Minister, Georgios Papandreou, Parliament is dissolved and elections are announced for February 16, 1964. The mandate to form a caretaker government is given to Ioannis Paraskevopoulos.
1963: The first division of Cyprus is carried out by the English. A ceasefire is reached after fierce fighting between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The “Green Line” in Nicosia is “carved” by General Young, who is equipped with a green pen. It is signed by the president Makarios and the (Turkish) vice president Koutsiuk, with Clerides and Denktas as witnesses.
1965: Ferdinand E. Marcos is elected the new president of the Philippines.
1966: The decision is issued for the murder of the MP, Grigoris Lambrakis. Spyros Gotzamanis (11 years), Emmanuel Emmanoulidis (8.5 years) and 8 other people (sentences of less than a year) are sentenced for fatal bodily harm – complicity.
1970: Paul McCartney is suing him to break up The Beatles.
1972: After two weeks of heavy bombing of North Vietnam, US President Richard Nixon accepts the start of talks with the Hanoi government.
1974: The Beatles are officially disbanded by court order.
1975: The Trial of the Polytechnic is over. Ioannidis, Varnavas and Dertilis are sentenced to life imprisonment. 17 defendants are sentenced to imprisonment and prison terms, among them the dictator George Papadopoulos. 13 are acquitted.
1981: In order to deal with the cloud in the center of Athens, it is decided to implement staggered hours in the market and to alternate the circulation of cars (odd-even).
1991: The countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) decide not to maintain a unified army, leaving each Republic to have its own.
1993: Israel establishes diplomatic relations with the Holy See.
1996: A peace agreement is signed ending the 36-year civil war in Guatemala.
1998: Khmer Rouge leaders are apologizing for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that killed more than a million people.
2006: Bomb blast at Barajas airport in Madrid.
2008: The Cypriot vessel Dignity of the “Free Gaza” organization with humanitarian aid to Gaza is rammed by an Israeli Navy vessel in international waters.
2010: A powerful explosion occurred at 8:22 in the morning outside the Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens, located on Louisis Riancourt Street in Ampelokipi. The explosion causes extensive damage to the Court of First Instance as well as to adjacent buildings, while many cars parked at the scene are completely destroyed.
Births
39 – Titus, Roman emperor
1371 – Basil I, Grand Prince of Moscow
1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan
1841 – Emilio Legrand, French Hellenist
1865 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer
1884 – Tojo Hideki, Japanese military and politician
1904 – Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer
1906 – Carroll Reid, English film director
1920 – Jack Lord, American actor
1933 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer
1935 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician
1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer
1946 – Patti Smith, American singer and poet
1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist
1957 – Nikos Portokaloglou, Greek songwriter
1961 – Ben Johnson, Canadian runner
1966 – Bennett Miller, American director
1975 – Tiger Woods, golfer
1980 – Henry Domerkant, American basketball player
1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player
1979 – Maria Korinthiou, Actress
Deaths
274 – Pope Felix I
1115 – Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
1178 – Pribislav, Prince of Mecklenburg
1436 – Louis III, Elector of the Palatinate
1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland
1460 – Richard, Duke of York
1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer
1591 – Pope Innocent IX
1631 – Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt
1916 – Grigory Rasputin, Russian mystic
1926 – Felice Napoleone Canevaro, Italian admiral
1941 – El Lisitsky, Russian photographer and architect
1944 – Romain Rolland, French writer
1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek policeman
1980 – Yannis Helmis, Greek football player
1998 – Athanasios Alexidis, Greek politician
1999 – Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian
2000 – Julius Epstein, American screenwriter
2001 – Menelaos Alexandrakis, Greek diplomat
2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician
2007 – Themis Holevas, Greek basketball player
2008 – Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Greek football player
2009 – Nikos Kakaunakis, Greek journalist
2012 – Rita Levi Montalcini, Italian neurologist
2014 – Louise Reiner, German actress
2015 – Giorgos Andreadis, Greek writer.
Source: News Beast
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