Like today, April 18, 2022

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

796: King Ethelred I of Northumbria is assassinated. Oswald II sits on the throne, but resigns within 27 days.

1025: Woleslaus I Andrew becomes the first king of Poland.

1506: The foundation stone of today’s Basilica of St. Peter, in the Vatican, is laid.

1521: During his apology to the Worms Diet, Martin Luther refuses to renounce his teachings, despite the risk of aphorism.

1738: The Royal Academy of History is founded in Madrid.

1857: The “Book of Spirits” by Alan Cardek is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

1897: The Greek-Turkish War of 1897 between Greece and the Ottoman Empire is declared.

1902: Denmark becomes the first country to use fingerprints as evidence.

1906: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shakes San Francisco. The dead are estimated at 3,000 and the homeless at 300,000.

1909: John of Lorraine, otherwise known as Jean D’Arc, is canonized by the Catholic Church.

1912: The ship “Carpathians” disembarks in New York 705 survivors of the wreck of the Titanic.

1920: The 2nd Conference of SEKE is meeting in Athens. The party is renamed SEKE-K (communist).

1930: In Romania, 144 people lost their lives due to a fire that broke out in a church.

1930: In an unprecedented announcement, the BBC radio announces that there is simply no news on this day.

1932: Greece declares bankruptcy. It is the last effort by the government of Eleftherios Venizelos to save the drachma.

1941: The Prime Minister Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide, under the weight of the deleted conditions of total occupation of the country by the Germans. A meeting is convened that day at the Great Britain Hotel. Koryzis offers to resign and has an intense discussion with the king. Suddenly he gets up and leaves the meeting, heads to his house, which was located on Vas. Sofias Street, and closes his office. A few minutes later, the successor Pavlos arrives at his house, who had realized his strange behavior. He does not manage to greet his wife on the doorstep of his house and the shot is heard.

1942: The US Air Force is raiding Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are being bombed.

1943: Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, responsible – among other things – for the attack on Pearl Harbor, was killed when the plane he was on was shot down by the Americans over Bougainville.

1946: The League of Nations is disintegrating.

1949: Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.

1951: France, Germany, Italy and the three BENELUX countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) sign in Paris the founding act of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which will be the forerunner of the EEC and the European Union.

1955: The theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who formulated the Theory of Relativity, dies. He is considered the leading scientist of the 20th century and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921. He died of heart failure at the age of 76. The doctor at the hospital where the body was necropsied removes the scientist’s brain in order to study – and perhaps discover the cause of his extraordinary intelligence.

1960: In London, 18,000 people are protesting against nuclear weapons and calling for unilateral British disarmament.

1961: US President John F. Kennedy has a two-hour meeting with Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis.

1967: Mohammed Ali refuses to serve in the US Army because of Vietnam and is sentenced to five years in prison and fined $ 10,000. He is also stripped of his boxing license and title of champion.

1969: Melina Mercouri establishes a fund for her contribution to the anti-dictatorship struggle.

1980: Rhodesia becomes an independent state and is renamed Zimbabwe.

1983: A kamikaze bomber sets himself on fire, destroying the US embassy in Beirut.

1988: The largest naval battle since the end of World War II takes place in the Persian Gulf, during the “Little Horse” operation, in the context of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). The Iranians lose two warships and six patrol boats, while the Americans lose one helicopter.

1991: Former Deputy Prime Minister of the PASOK government, Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas, dies of a stroke, which he suffered during the trial for the Koskotas scandal.

1994: George Gennimatas is urgently admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the “Evaggelismos” hospital with a respiratory infection.

1995: Athanasios Nasioutzik, who had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for the murder of the writer Thanasis Diamantopoulos and after he had already served 2/5 of his sentence, is released from prison by a decision of the Piraeus Council of Criminal Courts.

1996: 18 Greek tourists are killed and 16 others are injured in a terrorist attack by fanatical Islamists outside the “Europa” hotel in Cairo. The Gama al-Islamiya organization, which targets Israeli tourists, is in charge.

2004: Sad episodes unfold before the derby on Alexandra Avenue between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos for the title of Men’s football champion, despite the draconian security measures taken by the Police. Dozens of “green” fans who do not have a ticket, engage in stone warfare and clash with police forces, who use tear gas, turning the area around “Apostolos Nikolaidis” into a battlefield for hours. Nine police officers and two Panathinaikos fans were injured during the incidents. The two teams drew 2-2.

2007: In Baghdad, a series of bombings killed 198 people.

2011: The 25-year-old football player of Xanthi from Nigeria, Olumbagio Antefemi, is killed in a car accident.

2021: Six Premier League teams: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as many European clubs, such as Barcelona and Juventus, agree to join the Super League. groups »of Europe. UEFA and FIFA condemn the announcement, saying they will not recognize the competition, and that participating players will be barred from participating in all other international football competitions, including their national team participation in the Soccer World Cup. .

Births

1480 – Lucretia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara

1590 Ahmet I, Ottoman Sultan

1772 – David Ricardo, English economist

1901 – Laszlo Nemet, Hungarian writer

1907 – Miklos Rosa, Hungarian composer

1917 – Frederick, Queen of Greece

1927 – Samuel Huntington, American political scientist

1935 – Costas Ferris, Greek director

1941 – Michael D. Higgins, Irish politician

1942 – Jochen Reed, Austrian race driver

1960 – Christopher Stevens, US diplomat

1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek journalist

1970 – Saad Hariri, Lebanese politician

1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor

1973 – Haile Gebreselassie, Ethiopian athlete

1974 – Olivier Besanceno, French politician

1983 – Natassa Bofiliou, Greek singer

1985 – Lukasz Fabianski, Polish goalkeeper

1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model

1990 – Wojciech Szny, Polish footballer

1995 – Divok Origi, Belgian footballer

Deaths

796 – Ethelred I, King of Northumbria

1473 – Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow

1690 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine

1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist

1829 – Mahmoud Shah Durani, Emir of Afghanistan

1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter

1904 – Sumner Payne, American sniper

1905 – Juan Valera i Alcala Galliano, Spanish writer

1913 – Victor Taten, French engineer

1941 – Alexandros Koryzis, Greek politician

1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Admiral

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1951 – Oscar Carmona, Portuguese military and politician

1955 – Albert Einstein, German physicist

1986 – George Papaioannou, Greek politician

1988 – Oktay Rifat, Turkish writer

1991 – Menios Koutsogiorgas, Greek politician

2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer

2009 – Babis Kotridis, Greek football player

2011 – Olumbagio Antefemi, Nigerian footballer

2014 – Stavros Karamaniolas, Greek lyricist