As of today, March 20, 2023

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

235: Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to ascend the Roman throne.

1602: The Dutch East India Company is founded.

1800: The Italian physicist, Alessandro Volta, announces in a letter to his English friend, Sir Joseph Banks, that he has discovered the battery.

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris after escaping from the island of Elba, where he was in exile. He is followed by 140,000 troops and 200,000 volunteers to begin the second term of his rule.

1834: Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitrios Plapoutas are referred to trial on charges of conspiracy and high treason.

1835: The first municipal elections are held in Greece. They lasted 5 days (15 – 20 March).

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book “Barba Thomas’s Cabin” is published, selling over 300,000 copies within three months.

1900: Serbian physicist, Nikola Tesla, receives a patent for the wireless transmission of electricity.

1916: Albert Einstein publishes the Theory of Relativity.

1929: PAOK, after the absorption of AEK Thessaloniki, keeps its colors, black and white, but gets a stadium and emblem. Thus, the change in his insignia from the four-leaf clover to the double-headed eagle is made.

1933: Franklin Roosevelt is elected president of the United States, who begins the economic restructuring of the country, which has been plagued by the crash of the 1920s. The policy that followed will be known as the “New Deal”.

1933: In Germany, the Nazis open the first concentration camp at Dachau.

1947: Yiannis Zevgos, a leading member of the KKE and EAM, is murdered in Thessaloniki.

1952: The Greek Prime Minister, Nikolaos Plastiras, suffers severe hemiplegia. Sofocles Venizelos assumes official prime ministerial duties.

1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar.

1986: Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.

1987: The World Medicines Agency approves the marketing of AZT, the first anti-AIDS drug.

1991: Eric Clapton loses his son, Connor, when the 5-year-old falls from the 53rd floor of a skyscraper. In his honor the great rocker will write “Tears in Haven”.

1996: Panathinaikos defeats Legia Warsaw 3-0 at OAKA in a match for the quarter-final stage of the Champions League and triumphantly advances to the “4” of the competition. The first match in the Polish capital ended in a goalless draw (0-0).

1997: The prose writer, Galatea Sarantis, is the first woman to be elected a regular member of the Academy of Athens.

2003: The US bombing of Baghdad begins. American and British troops invade the country on the grounds that it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

2006: ERT launches a free digital television program under the title “ERT Digital”. As part of this digital television, the channels Spor+, Prisma+ and Cine+ are broadcast.

2007: Taha Yassin Ramadan, former vice president of Saddam Hussein’s regime, is executed by hanging in Iraq.

2021: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits the coast of Miyagi Prefecture in Japan, causing tsunami waves of up to 1 meter.

2021: The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Summer Olympics and Paralympics announces that overseas spectators will not be allowed to enter Japan to watch the games due to fears of the spread of COVID-19.

Births
1502 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist

1531 – Antonio, claimant to the throne of Portugal

1572 – Otto III of Harburg, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan

1770 – Friedrich Heilderlin, German writer

1820 – Alexander Ioannis I of Cuzas, ruler of Romania

1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer

1836 – Edward Pounder, British painter

1879 – Mont Meden, Canadian biochemist

1891 – Edmund Goulding, English director

1904 – Burroughs Frederick Skinner, American psychologist

1915 – Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist

1931 – Dinos Christianopoulos, Greek writer

1939 – Dimitri Michalas, Greek-born American astronomer and author

1940 – Stathis Haytas, Greek football player

1948 – Nikos Papazoglou, Greek songwriter

1950 – William Hurt, American actor

1954 – Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician

1956 – Catherine Ashton, English politician

1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress

1959 – Sting (born Stephen Borden), American wrestler

1963 – Miroslav Lajčak, Slovak diplomat

1963 – Jelena Romanova, Russian athlete

1976 – Chester Bennington, American musician

1980 – Robertas Yavtokas, Lithuanian basketball player

1984 – Fernando Torres, Spanish soccer player

Deaths
1191 – Pope Clement III

1239 – Hermann von Zalza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

1390 – Alexios III Komnenos the Great, Emperor of Trebizond

1413 – Henry IV, King of England

1440 – Sigismund Kestutaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania

1568 – Albert, Duke of Prussia

1619 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

1746 – Nicolas de Larzillier, French painter

1771 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter

1816 – Maria I, Queen of Portugal

1835 – Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle, French engineer and aerostatist

1925 – George Curzon, English politician and Viceroy of India

1929 – Ferdinand Fosse, French soldier

1931 – Hermann Müller, German politician

1943 – Heinrich Zimmer, German Indologist

1948 – Avedis Aharonian, Armenian poet

1964 – Brendan Bean, Irish writer

1966 – Dimitrios Galanis, Greek engraver

1983 – Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician

1983 – Ioannis Spyrou, Greek politician

1990 – Lev Yashin, Soviet football player

1992 – Bruno Lavanini, Italian scholar and Byzantine scholar

1993 – Polycarp Cush, American physicist

1995 – Big John Stand, American wrestler

1997 – Andreas Lentakis, Greek politician, thinker and writer

2004 – Andreas Theodorou, Cypriot theologian

2004 – Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands

2009 – Abdellatif Filali, Moroccan politician

2010 – Giriya Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician

2013 – Zilur Rahman, president of Bangladesh

2014 – Iniaki Ascuña, Spanish politician

2015 – Anthony Jude Perot, American drummer

2017 – John Guicheno, politician from Papua New Guinea

2017 – David Rockefeller, American banker.

Source: News Beast

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