What happened like today in Greece and the world.
476: Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is dethroned and Odoacer proclaims himself “king of Italy”.
626: Li Shi Min, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, becomes emperor of the Tang dynasty in China.
1260: The Ghibellines of Siena, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Guelphs of Florence at Montaperti.
1774: During James Cook’s second voyage, New Caledonia was first discovered by Europeans.
1682: The British astronomer, Edmund Halley, first observes the comet, which will be named after him.
1781: Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish settlers.
1828: The withdrawal of the Turkish-Egyptian troops from the Peloponnese begins, in accordance with the Treaty of Alexandria between Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the three guarantor powers of Greece’s independence. It will end on September 20, with the departure of Ibrahim himself.
1833: The first newsboy, a 10-year-old boy, is hired to sell the New York Sun.
1839: The war between Great Britain and China begins, which will go down in history as the First Opium War. It would end on August 29, 1842, with the cession of Hong Kong from the Chinese to the British.
1870: The third French Republic is established and Napoleon III capitulates in Paris.
1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch on the first commercial electricity station in history, lighting up a square mile of Manhattan.
1886: After 30 years of fighting, the leader of the Apache Indians, Geronimo, surrenders with the last warriors of his tribe to American General Nelson Miles, in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.
1888: George Eastman patents the first photographic film and registers it under the name ‘Kodak’.
1919: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk holds a conference in Sebastia, in order to make decisions about the future of Asia Minor and Thrace.
1923: The Italians occupy, after Corfu, Paxos and Antipaxos.
1933: The first plane to exceed 483 km/h takes off, piloted by J. R. Wendell in Glenview, Illinois.
1941: While the US maintains neutrality in World War II, a German submarine accidentally attacks the USS Greer in the waters of the North Atlantic, igniting great tension in relations between the two countries.
1943: In Germany, during World War II, the British Air Force (RAF) blows up Berlin, using 50 tons of explosives per minute.
1944: The British 11th Armored Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp during World War II.
1949: Pancho Gonzalez and Ted Schroeder play 67 games in 5 sets in the longest professional tennis match.
1957: The Greek Stylianos Typaldos, 98, becomes the oldest mayor in the world, in the municipality of Lixouri.
1958: The law 4000/1958 “On Tendiboism” comes into effect in Greece, by the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis, which imposes the haircut “with the fine grain” and the referral of offenders, causing public feeling.
1955: The first match of the first European Champions League Cup, now the Champions League, takes place. Sporting Lisbon – Partizan Belgrade emerge tied with a score of 3-3.
1963: Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dierens, Switzerland, killing all 80 on board.
1967: Dora Stratou is awarded the World Theater prize.
1970: In Chile, Salvador Allende becomes the first socialist president in the Western world.
1972: American Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals in swimming.
1974: All academics who collaborated with the dictatorship are referred to disciplinary councils, in the context of the so-called “exhumation”.
1878: Georgios Rallis is the first Greek Minister (Foreign Affairs) to be officially accepted into the Soviet Union.
1979: There is a deep cut in Greek pensions, as they are set by law at 80% of salary.
1980: The Polish government reaches an agreement with the strikers in the Gdansk shipyards, which will lead to the recognition of “Solidarity” as the first legal trade union in socialist Poland. The leader of the union is an electrician named Lech Walesa.
1989: Cuban plane crashes in Havana, killing all 126 on board.
1991: In the Philippines, 125 thousand residents of the areas affected by the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano remain in refugee camps.
1992: In Cyprus, archaeologists discover that a large part of Limassol is located on an ancient settlement of the period 2500-1700 BC.
1994: In Ukraine, 24 are dead from an explosion in a mine.
1997: A head-on collision between an American C-141 warplane and a German Tupolev 154 over southwest Africa results in 33 deaths.
1998: Two students of the Stanford University in the USA, the American Larry Page and the Russian Sergey Brin, found the internet services company called Google Inc.
2004: Psychrolusia for the Greek Men’s national football team. In its first match after winning Euro 2004, it lost in Tirana to Albania 2-1, in a match for the qualifiers for the World Cup 2006. Episodes are noted both in our country and in the neighboring one, with one dead Albanian in Zakynthos.
2012: Pauline Marois, after the general election in September, becomes the first female premier of Quebec.
2020: The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has stockpiled 2,105 kilograms of enriched uranium, breaching the 300 kilogram limit set out in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
2020: British long-distance runner Mo Farah and Dutch long-distance runner Sifan Hassan break the world record for the longest distance covered in one hour by men and women respectively, running 21.330km and 18.930km respectively in Brussels.
2020: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that Kosovo and Serbia will open their embassies in disputed Jerusalem, recognizing the city as Israel’s capital. Netanyahu says Kosovo is the first Muslim-majority country to do so. To date, only the United States and Guatemala have moved their embassies to Jerusalem, a move the Palestinians reject.
Births
1241 – Alexander III, King of Scotland
1383 – Amadeus VIII, Count of Savoy
1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia
1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, historian and diplomat
1809 – Juliusz Slowatski, Polish poet
1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
1866 – Simon Lake, American engineer and shipbuilder
1872 – Niels Strindberg, Swedish photographer
1891 – Fritz Toth, German engineer and Nazi official
1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright
1896 – Aspasia Manou, princess of Greece
1906 – Max Delbrück, German biologist
1913 – Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect
1917 – Henry Ford II, American automobile manufacturer
1926 – Elias Hroui, Lebanese politician
1927 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
1933 – Zoe Fitousi, Greek actress
1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
1942 – Spyros Ornerakis, Greek cartoonist
1951 – Martin Chambers, English drummer
1956 – Nikola Spiric, Bosnian politician
1968 – John DiMaggio, American actor
1970- Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer
1972- Raimondas Zutautas, Lithuanian football player
1973 – Jason David Frank, American actor and martial artist
1977 – Lucy Silvas, English singer
1978 – Wes Bentley, American actor
1981 – Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter, American singer
1984 – Camila Bordonamba, Argentine singer and actress
1985 – Raul Albiol, Spanish football player
1987 – Stefanos Siontis, Greek football player
Deaths
422 – Pope Boniface I
1161 – Philip of France, archdeacon of Paris
1199 – Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
1207 – Bonifacio, Marquis of Momferrato
1324 – Sancho, King of Majorca
1551 – Philip I, Prince of Grubenhagen
1588 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
1925 – Photios, Patriarch of Alexandria
1963 – Robert Schumann, French politician
1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German physician and missionary
1974 – Marcel Assard, French writer
1977 – Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer
1984 – Giorgos Sikeliotis, Greek painter and engraver
1987 – Takis Makridis, Greek theater entrepreneur
1989 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer
1990 – Irene Dunn, American actress
1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect
2003 – Evangelos Yiannopoulos, Greek politician and lawyer
2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor and pedagogue
2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player
2005 – Grigoris Grigoriou, Greek director
2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist
2006 – Giacchino Facetti, Italian football player
2017 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor
Source: News Beast
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