As of today, June 3, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

713: The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and exiled to Thrace by conspirators of Opsikios’ army. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine Army.

1140: The French scholar, Peter Abelard, is found guilty as a heretic.

1326: The Treaty of Novgorod demarcates the border between Russia and Norway.

1789: Lampros Katsonis defeats the Turkish Fleet off Tinos.

1821: The Greek metropolitans, Dorotheos of Adrianople, Iosif of Thessaloniki, Ioannikios of Tyrnovou and Grigorios of Derkon are hanged in Constantinople by the Turks.

1833: The Gendarmerie is established to consolidate order and security within the country.

1889: The first long-distance electricity transmission pylons are completed in the US, 14 miles (almost 23 km) long.

1892: Liverpool is founded when the owner of Anfield, John Houlding, decides to start a football club after Everton moved due to a rent dispute.

1906: Diplomatic relations between Greece and Romania are officially severed, due to the latter’s intransigent stance on the Koutsovlach issue.

1915: According to the results of the May 31 parliamentary elections in Greece, the people voted with a large majority for the Liberal Party and approved the policy of Eleftherios Venizelos.

1923: In Italy, by government law women gain the right to vote in municipal elections.

1927: The Hellenic Parliament votes on the new Constitution of the country, better known as the Democratic Constitution of 1927.

1935: The ocean liner “Normandy” lives up to the expectations of its manufacturers, since it makes the Southampton – New York route at an average speed of 29.7 knots, breaking the previous records of 28.92 and 28.25 knots.

1937: Edward VII of England marries American Wallis Simpson. For this reason he had been forced to resign from the office of King of England.

1940: The Luftwaffe is bombing Paris. At the same time, the German Army wins the battle of Dunkirk.

1941: The Nazis destroy the village of Kandanos in Crete and kill its inhabitants, in retaliation for the murder of 25 German soldiers.

1944: Charles de Gaulle becomes prime minister of France.

1946: The first bikini makes its appearance on the catwalks of Paris, causing many and not necessarily positive comments.

1947: A meeting takes place between Nikos Zachariadis and Joseph Stalin, in Moscow, the “Cuckoo” and the “Old Man”, as KKE documents state.

1950: French mountaineering expedition reaches the summit of Mount Anapurna I, one of the highest peaks in the Himalayas and the 10th in the world.

1955: France recognizes the independence of Tunisia.

1959: Singapore is declared an independent state within the British Commonwealth.

1961: An exhibition of works by Theophilos opens at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

1962: An Air France Boeing 707 crashes after takeoff from Paris, killing 130 passengers.

1963: A Northwest Airlines plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, killing 101 people.

1965: American astronaut Edward White performs the first spacewalk. He exits the spacecraft ‘Gemini IV’ and walks in space for 20 minutes, connected to the spacecraft only by a safety rope.

1967: The breathalyzer is also established in Greece, with the publication of a relevant sanitary provision in the Government Gazette.

1968: Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol, shooting him three times.

1969: The final episode of the science fiction series Star Trek is being aired, after it was permanently discontinued by the NBC television network.

1972: Vassilis Papageorgopoulos breaks the pan-Hellenic record of 100 meters, in Bratislava with a performance of 10″ with a hand timer. With this performance, the “winged doctor” equals the pan-European record of the competition.

1973: The first Soviet supersonic aircraft, the Tupolev Tu-144, crashes in Paris during a test flight. All 14 on board are killed and production of the aircraft is halted.

1975: Pele signs a three-year contract with the New York team Kosmos for 11 million dollars. Giorgio Chinnalia, Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer will follow, while George Best will move to Los Angeles, where he will play with the Aztecs.

1979: After an explosion at an oil facility in the southern Gulf of Mexico, 600,000 tons of oil end up in the sea.

1989: The Chinese government sends repression forces to Tiananmen Square to end its student occupation.

1991: In Romania, the country’s Supreme Court sentences Nicolae Ceausescu’s son, Nikos, to 16 years in prison for genocide.

1992: The UN Earth Conference begins in Rio de Janeiro, with the largest participation of leaders in history.

1993: China rejects the EEC communiqué on human rights abuses in Tibet, while calling on the 12 countries of the Community not to interfere in its internal affairs.

1994: A British helicopter crashes in Scotland due to dense fog, killing 29 people, most of them secret agents working with the IRA.

1994: In Indonesia, 150 people are dead from a tsunami, after the strong earthquake that occurred in East Java.

1998: An ultra-high-speed train, ICE 884, derails in Essen, Germany, killing 101 people. Some wagons crash into a bridge, causing it to collapse. It is the worst high-speed train accident to date.

1999: The president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, after an agreement with NATO leaders, withdraws his country’s forces from Kosovo.

2000: The Conference on Progressive Governance in the 21st Century is being held in Berlin, with the participation of 14 reformist heads of state and prime ministers, who are discussing the issue of developing a common strategy in the challenges of globalization. The 14 centre-left leaders, among them Kostas Simitis, in the joint statement they issue, emphasize that their effort to combine economic development with the distribution of wealth will be based on shared values, such as democracy, social cohesion and defense of human rights, with the aim of creating a framework for controlling international financial markets and combating knowledge discrimination.

2006: The federation of Serbia and Montenegro is dissolved.

2017: Come true terrorist attack on London Bridge and in Borough Market by three Islamic fundamentalists, in which 7 people are killed and 48 injured.

Births

1421 – Giovanni di Cosimo de’ Medici, Italian nobleman

1674 – Matthias Buchinger, German artist

1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician

1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist

1865 – George V, King of the United Kingdom

1872 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan

1885 – Yakov Sverdlov, Russian revolutionary

1896 – Iosif Ritchiardis, Greek composer

1899 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian biophysicist

1903 – Simon Karas, Greek musicologist

1909 – Ernst von Rath, German diplomat

1922 – Alain René, French director

1924 – Giorgos Fountas, Greek actor

1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor

1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet

1931 – Raul Castro, Cuban politician

1935 – Evangelia Samiotaki, Greek actress

1954 – Boisson Boufavanh, Prime Minister of Laos

1954 – Bayram Rexepi, Kosovar politician

1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist

1962 – David Cole, American music producer

1964 – Kerry King, American guitarist

1973 – Leonidas Kokkas, weightlifter

1976 – Nikos Hatzis, Greek basketball player

1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player

1982 – Jelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete

1985 – Lukas Piszczek, Polish footballer

1986 – Panagiotis Glykos, Greek goalkeeper

1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

1992 – Mario Götze, German football player

Deaths

1376 – Henry II, Landgrave of Hesse

1395 – Ivan Shisman, Tsar of Bulgaria

1411 – Leopold IV, Duke of Austria

1453 – Loukas Notaras, Grand Duke of the Byzantine Empire

1553 – Wolf Huber, Austrian painter, engraver and architect

1821 – Joseph Antonopoulos, Greek Metropolitan of Thessaloniki

1821 – Dorotheos Proios, Greek Metropolitan of Hadrianoupolis

1826 – Nikolai Karamzin, Russian writer

1844 – Louis, King of France

1866 – Emile Verde, French physicist

1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer

1891 – Petros Adamian, Armenian actor and writer

1899 – Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer

1924 – Franz Kafka, Czech writer

1925 – Camille Flamarion, French astronomer

1937 – Emilio Mola, Spanish soldier and duke

1956 – Ioannis Triantaphyllis, Greek politician

1959 – Ioannis Politis, Greek diplomat and politician

1963 – Pope John XXIII

1963 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet

1964 – Frans Emil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer

1970 – Hialmar Schacht, German politician

1976 – Maria Svolo, Greek politician

1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director

1989 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician

1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist, businessman and inventor

2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor

2002 – Charles Androbas, Governor General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

2004 – Quorthon (born Thomas Forsberg), Swedish musician

2009 – David Carradine, American actor

2009 – Nikandros Kepesis, Greek resistance fighter

2016 – Mohammed AliAmerican boxer.