Like today, April 24, 2022

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

1792: Artillery captain Claude Joseph Rouge de Lille composes the “Marseillaise” which is today the national anthem of France.

1800: The Library of Congress is established, initially housed in the Capitol Building in Washington. After 97 years it will have its own roof.

1827: One day after the death of Georgios Karaiskakis, in Faliro, follows the catastrophic defeat of the Greek forces by Kioutachis in the area of ​​Analatos, today’s Neos Kosmos.

1877: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1898: The US declares war on Spain when the Iberian country rejects its ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1915: The Neo-Turks capture 200 prominent Armenians of Istanbul. It is the beginning of the Armenian genocide, which cost the lives of 1.5 million people until 1923.

1918: The first chariot battle in the history of warfare takes place. The British Mark IV and the German A7V tanks are facing each other in Vigier-Breton.

1923: Sigmund Freud’s book “Das Ich und das Es” (“I and That”), published in Vienna, describes the theories of the Austrian physiologist and psychiatrist about the One, the I and the Superego.

1926: The Gennadius Library is inaugurated.

1923: New technologies are put at the service of football for the first time. In the Arsenal-Newcastle match (2-1) for the FA Cup final, the film is used to prove that Allen’s winning goal is invalid. The frame in question is published on the front page of the “Daily Mirror”.

1935: Generals Anastasios Papoulas and Miltiadis Koimisis are executed. Both were prosecution witnesses in the Six Trials and had taken part in the Venizelist Movement of March 1, 1935.

1944: The German occupation troops execute 318 inhabitants of the village in Pyrgos Kozani (Katranitsa), in retaliation for the execution of two German soldiers by ELAS forces. This was the second largest Nazi holocaust in Greece after that of Kalavrita.

[1945: At the end of World War II, US forces liberated the Dachau camp.

1953: Winston Churchill, the English “Prime Minister of Victory”, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1967: The “Soyuz 1” spacecraft crashes on Earth. The Soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, who rides on it becomes the first person to lose his life during a space mission.

1968: Mauritius gains independence and becomes a member state of the United Nations.

1970: The Gambia is becoming a democracy within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Daoud Jaguar as its first president.

1971: The construction of the OTE administrative building in Maroussi, in an area of ​​51 acres, is announced.

1975In Sweden, the terrorist organization “Red Army Factions” (RAF), a variant of the “Bader-Meinhof”, invades the building of the West German embassy in Stockholm and takes 12 hostages, demanding the release of 26 prisoners of the organization “Mainh”. After the German government refused to give in to their demands, the terrorists killed two hostages, and a little later they were arrested by the Swedish police.

1980: Eight American soldiers are killed in Operation Eagle Claw as they try to end the hostage crisis in Iran.

1981: IBM Introduces First Personal Computer, IBM PC

1990: East and West Germany decide to unite economically and monetaryly on July 1 of the same year.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is being carried into space by Discovery.

1997: Olympiacos becomes European champion in basketball. In the final that takes place in Rome, it is imposed on Barcelona with 73-58.

2004: Annan’s plan for resolving the Cyprus issue is put to two separate referendums in Megalonisos and rejected by the Greek Cypriots with an overwhelming “no”. 75.83% are against against 24.17% of his supporters. On the contrary, in the occupied areas, 64.91% of Turkish Cypriots vote “yes”, 35.01% “no”.

2013: A building collapses in Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

2017: According to the French Ministry of the Interior, the final results of the first round of the presidential election are as follows: Emanuel Macron 23.75%, Marine le Pen 21.53%, François Fillon 19.91%, Jean-Luc Melanson 19.64% and Benoit Amon 6.35%. The country is leading to a second round of elections.

2021: US President Joe Biden officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide by the Turks during the First World War.

Births

1086 – Ramiro II, king of Aragon

1533 – William I, Prince of Orange

1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orleans

1815 – Anthony Trollop, English writer

1845 – Karl Spitler, Swiss poet

1846 – George Papavassiliou, Greek philologist

1856 – Philippe Petten, French military and politician

1876 ​​- Erich Ryder, German Admiral

1880 – Gideon Sudbike, Swedish engineer and businessman

1882 – Hugh Downing, British soldier

1889 – Stafford Cripps, English politician

1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician

1916 – Lou Thez, American wrestler

1918 – Robert Escarpit, French writer and journalist

1919 – Glafkos Clerides, Cypriot politician

1925 – Eugene Weber, American historian

1927 – Pascualino de Sandis, Italian cinematographer

1934 – Shirley McLain, American actress

1941 – Kenneth Hall, Jamaican politician

1942 – Barbara Streisand, American singer and actress

1943 – David Morel, Canadian author

1951 – Eda Kenny, Irish politician

1952 – Jean-Paul Gauthier, French fashion designer

1957 – Bamir Topi, Albanian politician

1967 – Dino Raja, Croatian basketball player

1968 – Hashim Thaci, Prime Minister of Kosovo

1969 – Elias Atmatzidis, Greek football player

1971 – Alejandro Fernandes, Mexican singer

1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer

Deaths

1383 – Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg

1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer

1821 – Athanasios Diakos, Greek general

1852 – Vassily Zukovsky, Russian poet

1891 – Helmut Karl von Moltke, Prussian marshal

1933 – Antonios Christomanos, Greek university and politician

1935 – Miltiadis Koimisis, Greek soldier

1935 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek soldier

1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist

1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut

1970 – Caesar Emmanuel, Greek poet

1974 – William “Bad” Abbott, American comedian

1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer

1986 – Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

2004 – Estee Lauder, American businesswoman

2005 – Fei Xiao-tong, Chinese sociologist

2006 – Giannis Maglis, Greek writer

2006 – George Tsitsopoulos, Greek actor

2010 – Dimitris T. Tsatsos, Greek lawyer

2011 – Satya Sai Baba, Indian guru

2020 – Elli Vozikiadou, Greek actress