As of today, June 4, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

1411: King Charles VI of France grants the monopoly of ripening Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Sulzon.

1456: The Ottoman Turks occupy Athens.

1615: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu occupy Osaka Castle in Japan.

1783: Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier publicly display their hot air balloon, their invention, in Annecy, France.

1827: Cochrane’s unsuccessful naval campaign in Egypt is recorded. Konstantinos Kanaris burns in the port of Alexandria the shield of the Egyptian Fleet.

1876: An express train, the Transcontinental Express, arrives in San Francisco from New York, having crossed the route in a then-record time of 83 hours and 39 minutes.

1878: The Treaty of Constantinople is signed, by which Cyprus is transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the United Kingdom.

1896: Henry Ford tests the first gasoline-powered car, the “Quad,” on the streets of Detroit. It is nothing more than a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels, reaching a maximum speed of 32 km/h.

1912: A large fire breaks out in Istanbul, leaving behind at least 1000 destroyed houses.

1913: English suffragette Emily Davison, the woman considered one of the heroines of the movement, falls at the feet of King George V’s horse at the Epsom Derby. She would succumb to her injuries a few days later.

1917: The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by the American Columbia University for the first time.

1919: The US Congress gives women the right to vote.

1920: Hungary signs the Treaty of Trianon with the Allies, according to which the country is reduced to 36,000 square miles (from 125,000) and to 8,000,000 inhabitants (from 22 million).

1928: The Chinese warlord and ruler of Maguria, Chang Cho-lin, is assassinated outside the city of Nanjing by the Japanese nationalist, Komoto Daisaku.

1932: The Papanastasi government resigns and the Venizelos government is formed again with new ministers.

1936: The Popular Front (socialist-communist alliance) forms the first government in France, with Leon Bloom as prime minister.

1940: Nazi forces occupy the port of Dunkirk, in the English Channel. The Allies manage to evacuate their 338,000 troops in the area in time. At the same time, the German Army invades Paris.

1942: The crucial naval battle of Midway begins, which will decide the final outcome of the war in the Pacific Ocean.

1942: The first shootings take place in Kaisariani, by the Germans. Pilots Ilias Kazakos and Georgios Kotoulas are executed.

1943: In Argentina, a military coup deposes President Ramos Castillo.

1944: Allied troops liberate Rome from Axis forces.

1951: The US Supreme Court upholds the right of states to require non-communist ideological persuasion from applicants for various jobs.

1961: At the Vienna Summit, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warns that he will sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.

1965: The Rolling Stones’ legendary album ‘Satisfaction’ is released.

1969: In Congo, 100 students are killed by soldiers in a demonstration.

1970: The Tongan Islands gain their independence from the United Kingdom.

1987: Danny Harris runs a personal best 47:56 to beat Edwin Moses in the 400m steeplechase in Madrid to hand him his first defeat in 9 years, 9 months and 9 days.

1987: Jonathan Pollard, a former member of the US Navy’s security services, who was arrested in November 1985 for spying for Israel, confesses to his actions and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

1989: Chinese regime forces violently suppress the protest of students and citizens in Tiananmen Square. According to international agencies, the dead exceed 300 and the arrested are 10,000.

1991: After 20 days of general strike, the communist government of Albania under Fatos Nano resigns.

1991: In Japan, an eruption of the Mount Anzen volcano, near the city of Shimabara, causes the death of 12 people.

1992: In Yugoslavia, the ruling Socialist Party of Slobodan Milosevic triumphs in the parliamentary elections.

1993: The president of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov, rejects Slobodan Milosevic’s proposal for Skopje, who proposed the name Republic of Slavonic Macedonia.

1994: An assassination attempt was made against the KKE MEP candidates, Vassilis Efraimidis, Yiannis Theonas and Michalis Spyridakis, during a pre-election rally in Thessaloniki.

1995: In Honduras, 16 people lose their lives and 22 are injured by lightning while watching a football match.

1996: The Greek government is carrying out an intense protest campaign, after a Turkish official questioned the Greekness of the island of Gavdos. The new challenge manifests itself during the planning of a NATO exercise at the Naples headquarters.

1996: Dusan Bajevic resigns from the bench of AEK, to then assume the technical leadership of Olympiakos, causing strong reactions from the Union’s friends.

1997: Konstantinos Mitsotakis and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, George Papandreou, are honored with the “Ipectsi” Greek-Turkish friendship award.

2001: King Dipendra of Nepal dies, three days after murdering most of his family.

2006: Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizai manage to escape from Korydallos prisons in a cinematic way. A helicopter lowers over the courtyard in front of the stunned guards, with the two prisoners climbing the aerial ladder and boarding the helicopter, which flies off to an unknown destination. The two criminals will be arrested after some time, but in February 2009 they will escape again from Korydallos in the same way.

2008: The popular one actor, Nikos Sergianopoulosis brutally murdered in his apartment.

Births

1394 – Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark

1489 – Antonio, Duke of Lorraine

1694 – François Quenet, French economist

1738 – George III, King of the United Kingdom

1867 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish military and politician

1889 – Beno Gutenberg, German seismologist

1910 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer and inventor

1924 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa

1929 – Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician

1934 – Monica Deacon, politician from Saint Vincent

1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor

1937 – Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler

1944 – Lakis Komninos, Greek actor

1947 – Juan Montes, Argentine soccer player

1948 – Leo, archbishop of Finland

1948 – Jürgen Sparwasser, German soccer player

1952 – Bronislaw Komorowski, Polish politician

1954 – Lic Adolphe Tiao, Burkina Faso politician

1961 – Ferenc Gyurcsani, Hungarian politician

1963 – Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player

1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano

1967 – Antonis Pararas, Greek TV presenter

1970 – Izabela Skorupko, Polish actress

1971 – Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician

1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress

1977 – Dionysis Chiotis, Greek goalkeeper

1981 – Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek football player

1985 – Lukas Podolski, German soccer player

1991 – Katherine Prescott, English actress

Deaths

1102 – Vladislav I Herman, Duke of Poland

1134 – Magnus I, King of Sweden

1206 – Adela of Campania, Queen of France

1246 – Isabella of Angouleme, Queen of England

1530 – Maximilian Sforza, Duke of Milan

1553 – Dmitri Ivanovich, Grand Prince of Moscow

1592 – Francis, Duke of Montpensier

1674 – Jan Lifens, Dutch artist

1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer

1875 – Eduard Merike, German poet

1876 ​​– Abdul Aziz, Ottoman sultan

1933 – Ahmet Hasim, Turkish poet

1941 – William II, Emperor of Germany

1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer

1949 – Michael Argyropoulos, Greek poet

1952 – Eva Palmer-Sikelianou, American scholar of Greek culture

1970 – Dimitrios Georgandelis, Greek politician

1971 – Vassilios Kardamakis, Greek soldier

1994 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor

2001 – Dinos Iliopoulos, Greek actor

2005 – Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress

2007 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek Cypriot actor

2008 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor

2016 – Carmen Pereira, president of Guinea-Bissau

2017 – Juan Goitisolo, Spanish writer.