As of today, June 5, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

754: The Anglo-Saxon missionary, Boniface, is murdered by a group of pagans in Docum, Frisia.

1625: The city of Brenda surrenders to the Spanish quarter.

1822: Dramalis, after drowning the revolution of Pelion in blood, reaches Corinth.

1825: The Seesaw Battle begins against Ibrahim Pasha.

1825: Odysseas Androutsos is assassinated in the Acropolis of Athens by his former boyfriend Yannis Gouras.

1826: The military corps of the Janissaries is disbanded in Constantinople, by order of Sultan Mahmut.

1832: The Junian Rebellion breaks out in Paris, in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.

1837: Houston is recommended by the Republic of Texas.

1849: Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy with the signing of a new constitution.

1883: The first scheduled route of the Orient Express departs from Paris.

1894: International ferry races are organized in Piraeus, specifically in the port of Zea, in support of the Nursing Home.

1913: Women gain the right to vote in Denmark.

1923: A new meeting between Eleftherios Venizelos and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Ismet Inonou, is taking place to settle the disagreements that had arisen mainly on the issue of amnesty.

1925: The founding law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is passed in the Parliament of the Hellenes, which was founded following the proposal of the then prime minister, Alexandros Papanastasi, during the period of the first Hellenic Republic and was initially called the University of Thessaloniki.

1933: US President Franklin Roosevelt signs legislation “taking” his country off the “gold standard”.

1934: An episode was noted in the Greek Parliament, when after an argument between George Kondylis and Alexandros Papanastasiou, a member of parliament – friend of Kondylis threw a chair at Papanastasiou, slightly injuring him in the shoulder.

1941: 4,000 Chongqing residents die of suffocation in a shelter during the bombardment of the city.

1942: The United States of America declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

1944: Over 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on the German Atlantic Wall off the coast of Normandy in preparation for the landings in the area.

[1945: The Allied Control Council, the country’s military occupation governing body, officially takes power in Germany.

1946: Chicago hotel fire kills 61.

1947: In a speech at Harvard University, the US Secretary of State, George Marshall, calls for economic support for Europe devastated by World War II. This movement will take his name and will be called the Marshall Plan.

1956: THE Elvis Presley shocks the audience with his daring hip-swing on the American TV show ‘The Milton Berle Show’.

1959: Singapore’s first government is sworn in.

1961: The three-pointer is being implemented for the first time in the American Basketball League and includes all shots taken from a distance greater than 22 feet (6.71 m) from the basket.

1963: The British Secretary of War, John Profumo, resigns due to a sex scandal known as the “Profumo Affair”.

1967: The infamous Six Day War begins between Israel on one side, Egypt, Syria and Jordan on the other.

1968: US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy is shot in a Los Angeles hotel by Sirhan Sirhan. He will die the next day.

1969: Alekos Panagoulis escapes from the prisons of Boyatiou, who is offered 500,000 drachmas and is arrested three days later in an apartment on Patmos Street.

1970: The former parliamentary representative of EDA, Ilias Iliou, who was in exile in Leros, but was hospitalized in the Averof prison hospital, is released.

1972: The 1st World Summit on the Human Environment begins in Stockholm.

1972: Greece and China establish diplomatic relations.

1975: The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six Day War.

1975: The United Kingdom is holding its first nationwide referendum on whether to stay in the European Economic Community.

1977: The Apple II computer is on store shelves for the first time.

1989: The governor of the Bank of Greece, Dimitris Halikias, testifies on the Koskota case.

1989: A protester stops a phalanx of tanks for over half an hour after the student riot in Tien An Men Square.

1994: The occupying leader, Rauf Denktash, proposes a non-aggression pact between the two communities and the disarmament of Megalonisos, as well as dialogue on changing the terms of the Treaty of Guarantee of 1960. He threatens countermeasures if the implementation of the unified Greek-Cyprus defense doctrine proceeds.

1995: Johannes Weinrich is being transported under draconian measures to Germany, from Yemen, from where he was extradited.

1995: In Zaire, the death toll from the Ebola virus is 199.

1996: THE George Donis signs a three-year contract with Blackburn for 1.1 billion drachmas and becomes the highest paid Greek footballer, as well as the first from our country to play in the Premier League.

1997: Algeria is holding its first parliamentary elections since 1992, when the annulment of an apparent Islamist electoral victory sparked an explosion of violence and bloodshed.

1999: Voula Tsiamita of the Panhellenic G.S. sets a pan-Hellenic record in the triple jump with 14.94 meters during the Bruno Zauli European Cup held in OAKA.

2002: AEK is crowned basketball champion again after 32 years.

2002: The first version of the web browser, Mozilla 1.0, is released.

2003: The 50th Acropolis Rally begins, the toughest race of the World Championship on European soil. The winner will be Marco Martin with a Ford Focus, who is celebrating the first victory of his WRC career.

2013: Marine Stathis Krokou is killed when a personnel transport tank overturns.

2014: Jihadist forces close to ISIL occupy the Iraqi city of Samarra.

2020: New York City reports first day without coronavirus deaths since March 11. The UK death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 40,000.

Births

1341 – Edmund of Langley, Duke of York

1523 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry

1599 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter

1656 – Joseph Piton de Tournefort, French botanist

1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist

1781 – Christian August Lobeck, German scholar

1819 – John Coates Adams, British mathematician

1862 – Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician

1876 ​​– Tony Jackson, American musician and singer

1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary

1883 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist

1887 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and folklorist

1898 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer

1900 – Denis Gabor, Hungarian engineer and physicist

1919 – Richard Scarry, American author

1921 – Gianna Persaki, Greek painter

1928 – Tony Richardson, British actor and director

1932 – Christie Brown, Irish writer

1931 – Jacques Demy, French screenwriter and director

1938 – Karin Balcher, German athlete

1939 – Joe Clark, Canadian politician

1944 – Tommy Smith, American athlete

1942 – Teodoro Obiang Ngema Basongo, President of Equatorial Guinea

1947 – Lori Anderson, American artist

1949 – Ken Follett, Welsh writer

1951 – Alekos Papadopoulos, Greek football player and coach

1952 – Nico McBrain, English drummer

1953 – Susie Atwood, American swimmer

1954 – Lakis Bellos, Greek journalist and playwright

1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek football player

1956 – Michalis Zampetas, Greek composer

1958 – Ahmed Abdallah Sabi, president of the Comoros

1964 – Rick Riordan, American writer

1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American actor and singer

1976 – Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player

1978 – Fernando Meira, Portuguese footballer

1979 – Stefanos Kotsolis, Greek goalkeeper

1995 – Troy Sivan Mellett, Australian actor

Deaths

535 – Epiphanius, Patriarch of Constantinople

754 – Saint Boniface

928 – Louis the Blind, Holy Roman Emperor

1226 – Henry Borwin II, Prince of Mecklenburg

1249 – Hugh I of Lusignan, Count of Mars

1296 – Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster

1310 – Amalric, lord of Tyre

1316 – Louis I, King of France

1383 – Dmitri, Prince of Suzdal

1434 – Yuri of Zvenigorod, Grand Prince of Moscow

1568 – Lamoral, Count of Egmond, Flemish general and statesman

1625 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer

1688 – Konstantinos Gerakis, Greek adventurer

1825 – Odysseus Androutsos, Greek fighter

1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer

1916 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener and Field Marshal

1925 – Pericles Zerlentis, Greek scholar and historian

1941 – Michael Kotris, Greek politician

1942 – Ilias Kazakos, Greek Coast Guard officer

1942 – Georgios Kotoulas, Greek Coast Guard officer

1971 – Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher

1979 – Georgios Maridakis, Greek academic

1983 – Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer

1989 – Notis Kapnisis, Greek politician

1991 – Theofrastos Pappas, Greek politician

1994 – Christos Lettonos, Greek composer and singer

2004 – Ronald Reagan, 40th US President

2009 – Basiro Dabo, politician from Guinea-Bissau

2012 – Ray Bradbury, American author

2012 – Athinodoros Prousalis, Greek actor

2015 – Tarek Aziz, Iraqi politician

2016 – Taomati Yuta, politician from Kiribati

2016 – Jerome Brunner, American psychologist

2017 – Sheikh Ismael Tiote, Ivorian footballer

2018 – Aris RaftopoulosGreek basketball player and coach.