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As of today, December 30, 2022

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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