As of today, January 6, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

54: Pope Stephen II, after crossing the Alps, meets in Pavia with the king of the Franks, Pepin, and crowns him king again. In return, the king assumes the role of protector of the Church and turns against the Lombards.

870: The emperor of Byzantium, Basil I, declares his son, Leo VI (from his marriage to Eudokia Ingerina), co-king.

1017: Cnut is crowned king of England.

1066: Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

1205: Philip of Swabia is crowned king of the Romans.

1322: Stephen Uros III is crowned king of Serbia.

1355: Charles IV is crowned King of Italy in Milan.

1449: Constantine Palaiologos is crowned emperor of Byzantium in Mystras.

1454: Gennadius Scholarios is appointed the first patriarch of Constantinople after the fall of Constantinople.

1535: The Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pitaro, founds on an uninhabited coast of Latin America, a city he calls Los Reyes de Lima. It is the capital of Peru, known simply as Lima.

1681: The first recorded boxing match takes place in England between the Duke of Albermarle’s horseman and butcher, with the latter winning.

1821: Theodoros Kolokotronis disembarks at Kardamili in Mani to prepare the revolt of the enslaved Greeks.

1828: Ioannis Kapodistrias arrives in Nafplio to take over the governance of the newly established Greek state. The Greeks welcome him in the first capital of the state with many honors and great enthusiasm.

1838: Samuel Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph in the US.

1851: Léon Foucault experimentally proves the rotation of the Earth (Foucault’s pendulum).

1870: The famous Musikverein, the Vienna Music Hall, is inaugurated.

1900: Piraeus is electrified by a factory located near the Peloponnese railway station.

1907: Educator Maria Montessori opens her first school in Rome to implement her pedagogical ideas.

1912: New Mexico becomes the 47th US state.

1919: Solemn celebration in “Dionysia” for the official appearance of the Labor Socialist Party of Greece, later KKE, on the political scene of the country.

2021: Donald Trump supporters storm the US Capitol even aiming to kill members of the US Congress. As a result of the clashes, 5 dead, 140 police officers injured and hundreds of arrests.

Births

1156 – Mathilde of England, Duchess of Saxony

1367 – Richard II, King of England

1412 – Joan of Lorraine, French heroine and saint of the Roman Catholic Church

1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer

1596 – Bogdan Khmelnytskyi, Ukrainian ataman

1621 – Maurice of the Palatinate, German military

1655 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician

1655 – Nikolaos Papadopoulos of Komnenos, Greek theologian

1745 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor

1785 – Andreas Mustoxidis, Greek scholar

1792 – Apostolos Arsakis, Greek benefactor and politician

1822 – Henry Schliemann, German archaeologist

1848 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary

1870 – Gustaf Bauer, German politician

1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer

1878 – Carl Sandberg, American poet and historian

1882 – Van Noli, Albanian politician

1883 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer

1903 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek conductor

1913 – Loretta Young, American actress

1919 – Andreas Filippidis, Greek actor

1924 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician

1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor

1929 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician

1937 – Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower

1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor

1938 – Silo (born Mario Luis Rodríguez Combos), Argentine writer and philosopher

1939 – George Babiniotis, Greek linguist

1939 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer

1944 – Yannis N. Dimaras, Greek journalist and politician

1946 – Christos Lettonos, Greek composer and singer

1946 – Syd Barrett, English songwriter

1953 – Malcolm Young, Australian musician

1954 – Anthony Minghella, British director

1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English actor and comedian

1958 – Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist

1969 – Ilie Dumitrescu, Romanian football player and coach

1970 – Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor

1972 – Nek (born Filippo Neviani), Italian singer

1980 – Apostolia Zoi, Greek singer

1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor

1986 – Irina Shayk, Russian model

1987 – Bogani Kumalo, South African footballer

1989 – Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ

1997 – Vasilis Charalambopoulos, Greek basketball player

Deaths

1448 – Christopher III, King of Denmark

1477 – John VIII, Count of Vendôme

1693 – Mohammed IV, Ottoman sultan

1694 – Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice

1852 – Louis Braille, French professor, inventor of the Braille code

1884 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian geneticist

1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician

1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the USA

1928 – Alvin Krenzlein, American athlete

1949 – Victor Fleming, American director

1952 – Sofocles Dousmanis, Greek admiral

1971 – Dimitrios Karakoulouxis, Greek politician

1981 – Archibald Joseph Cronin, Scottish writer

1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist

1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician

1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer

1994 – Christos Sianidis, Greek politician

1999 – Dsu Mohele, Prime Minister of Lesotho

2007 – Pete Kleinau, American musician and special effects artist

2008 – Alekos Michaelidis, Cypriot politician

2016 – Ioannis Petridis, Greek politician

2017 – Bayazit Osman, Turkish nobleman

2022 – Peter Bogdanovich, American director, writer, actor, producer

2022 – Sidney Poitier American actor.