As of today, January 30, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

1018: Poland and the Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Bautzen.

1595: William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, premieres in London.

1607: About 200 square miles (51,800 hectares) along the coast of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England are destroyed by flooding, with an estimated 2,000 deaths.

1648: The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the 80-year war between Spain and the Netherlands.

1649: King Charles I of England is executed by beheading.

1822: The Greeks, under the leadership of the German Philhellene, Karl von Norman-Ehrenfels, repel the Ottoman attacks on Neokastro.

1823: Finding the miraculous icon of Panagia of Tinos, after the vision of the nun Pelagia.

1827: After five attacks against Kastela in Piraeus, the Turkish forces under Kiutachi are forced to retreat. Makrygiannis and his men pursue them, leaving over 300 dead on the battlefield. Greek losses amount to 60 casualties.

1835: Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate Andrew Jackson. He will fail and receive a “punch” from the outraged US president. This is the first attempt against an American president.

1847: The California region of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.

1876: Victor Hugo is named a senator for life by the French Republic.

1894: Charles King of Detroit patents the compressor.

1902: Japan and Great Britain sign a treaty of defense alliance and agree to mutual respect for their interests in China and Korea.

1911: The world’s first rescue of an airplane passenger from a ship takes place in Cuba.

1923: The population exchange agreement between Greece and Turkey is signed in Lausanne. The Greeks of Constantinople and the two islands of Imbros and Tenedos and the Muslims of Western Thrace are excluded from the application of the convention.

2001: The recognition of the Armenian genocide by the French president, Jacques Chirac, is signed. Ankara is now threatening a definitive break in its relations with Paris.

2003: Belgium becomes the second country in the world after the Netherlands to allow same-sex marriage.

2005: The first free multi-party elections since 1958 are being held in Iraq.

2006: George A. Papandreou is elected president of the Socialist International.

2009: In Iraq, the shoe thrown at US President George W. Bush by journalist Mudasser al-Zaidi on December 14, 2008, during a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, is becoming a statue.

2015: The Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, surprises the president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, when he announces to him that the government is not cooperating with the troika. The video of the press conference is going around the world. A conflicting atmosphere is forming and the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has telephone communications with Mario Draghi, Martin Schulz and Dijsselbloem.

2020: The World Health Organization declares a “global alert”, in a rare urgent call to help the international community mobilize financial and political support to bring the epidemic under control.

Births

58 BC – Libya, Roman empress

1544 – Giorgio Basta, Italian general

1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer

1882 – Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd president of the USA

1894 – Boris III, King of Bulgaria

1895 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German Nazi

1899 – Max Tyler, South African bacteriologist

1911 – Roy Eldridge, American musician

1920 – Michael Anderson, English director

1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician

1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor

1935 – Tubby Hayes, English musician

1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

1938 – Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan

1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician

1951 – Phil Collins, English musician

1953 – Laurentino Cortisso, Panamanian politician

1962 – Abdullah II, King of Jordan

1968 – Philip VI, King of Spain

1974 – Christian Bale, English actor

1980 – Giorgos Vakouftsis, Greek football player

1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer

1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer

2002 – Christos Tzolis, Greek football player

Deaths

1969 – Peter I, Tsar of Bulgaria

1039 – Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim

1314 – Nicholas III Saint Omer, lord of Thebes

1384 – Louis II, Count of Flanders

1608 – Ferdinand, German soldier

1629 – Carlo Maderno, Swiss architect

1649 – Charles I, King of England

1730 – Peter II, Czar of Russia

1889 – Rudolf, Prince of Austria

1920 – Konstantinos Esslin, Greek politician of Bavarian origin

1942 – Georgios Sotiriadis, Greek archaeologist

1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist and pacifist

1948 – Orville Wright, American aviator

1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian car engineer

1954 – Ioannis Makropoulos, Greek lawyer and politician

1963 – Francis Poulenc, French composer

1969 – Dimitrios V. Hatzopoulos, Greek industrialist and politician

1976 – Stylianos Skandalis, Greek soldier

1982 – Lightning Hopkins, American musician

1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist

1993 – Alexandra of Greece, Queen of Yugoslavia

1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter

1996 – George Romanos, Greek lawyer

2005 – Kleanthis Zervos, Greek politician

2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist

2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor

2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer

2011 – John Barry, English composer.