Like today, April 4, 2022

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

1081: Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

1147: First historical record of Moscow.

1818: The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).

1905: Earthquake in India kills 20,000 people and destroys many buildings.

1912: Tibet becomes the first violent province of China.

1913: Lieutenant Emmanuel Argyropoulos, piloting a “Bleriot 11”, loses his life due to the crash of his aircraft. He is the first dead of the Greek Air Force.

1917: Vladimir Lenin, having returned to St. Petersburg from Switzerland, took a leading role in the Bolshevik movement, publishing the “Positions of April”.

1919: The battleship “Averoff” enters triumphantly in the port of Smyrna. 50,000 people welcome it celebrating on the waterfront.

1932: In the US, chemist Charles Glen King manages to isolate vitamin C.

1938: The Bank of Greece inaugurates its main building in Athens.

1942: The submarine “Glaucus II” sinks during a German air strike in the port of Valletta in Malta.

[1945: US troops occupy Kassel.

[1945: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation.

1946: The judge, Panagiotis Poulitsas, is sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister of Greece.

1949: In Washington, USA, twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Declaration, creating NATO.

1960: “Greece’s integration into the European Common Market will be a test, not only for industry, but also for the whole country, which comes to the Common Market with the full burden of the sins of the direct or indirect interventionist past,” said the president. departed BoD of the Association of Greek Industrialists (SEV), George Drakos (“IZOLA”), in the report of the administration.

1964: Beatles songs occupy all the top five places on the American Billboard, setting a world record.

1967: Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in New York entitled “Beyond Vietnam.”

1968: AEK becomes the first Greek team to win a European title in basketball, beating Slavia Prague in the Cup Winners’ Cup final 89-82. Inside and outside the Panathinaiko Stadium are 80,000 spectators, an all-time record for a basketball game in Greece, but also in Europe.

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., an American human rights activist, was assassinated while standing on the balcony of a motel he had stayed in with his close associates in Memphis, Tennessee. On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty, but was acquitted three days later. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 99 years in prison.

1969: Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

1973: The official opening of the building complex of the World Trade Center in New York is taking place. Twenty-eight years later, the Twin Towers will collapse after the al-Qaeda terrorist attack.

1975: Microsoft is founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico by two young people, Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

1979: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is being executed.

2002: The eternal children, Phoebus and Athena are chosen as the mascots of the Athens Olympic Games. Two dolls, three thousand years old, bring the past to the present and the future.

2004: The case of the terrorist attack on the Atocia train station in Madrid, which claimed the lives of 200 people on March 11, is taking a new turn. Four of the suspects in the massacre are blown up when they find out that the Spanish Police have surrounded the building in which they are hiding. The blast killed one police officer and injured 15 others.

2008: According to data that see the light of day, more than 120,000 Greek children were born out of wedlock in recent years.

2021: Greece reports the largest total number of deaths in 24 hours for the current year, with 78 victims. The total number of dead is 8,380.

Births

188 – Caracalla, Roman emperor

1661 – Louis Armand I, prince of Conti

1758 – Pierre-Paul Printon, French painter

1819 – Maria II, Queen of Portugal

1846 – Lotreamon, French poet

1884 – Izoroku Yamamoto, Japanese Admiral

1896 – Robert Sergood, American playwright

1913 – Maddie Waters, American songwriter

1914 – Marguerite Dyras, French writer and director

1920 – Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius IV

1928 – Maya Angelou, American author

1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor

1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director

[1945-DanielKon-BenditGermanpoliticianandactivist

1949 – Litsa Diamanti, Greek singer

1949 – Abdullah Ocalan, Kurdish leader

1952 – Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem

1952 – Gary Moore, a Northern Irish songwriter

1957 – Aki Kaourismaki, Finnish director

1958 – Peter Baltes, German bassist

1960 – Azim Izabekov, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan

1960 – Jose Peseiro, Portuguese coach

1965 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor

1966 – Christos Tsekos, Greek basketball player

1967 – George Mavrotas, Greek pole vaulter and politician

1970 – George Amanatidis, Greek football player

1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor

1985 – Rudy Fernandez, Spanish basketball player

1987 – Markos Vellidis, Greek football player

1987 – Sami Kentira, German footballer

1991 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American singer and actress

1996 – Austin Mahoney, American singer

Deaths

397 – Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan

896 – Pope Formozos

1147 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia

1284 – Alfonso I of Castile, King of Castile

1292 – Pope Nicholas IV

1406 – Robert III, King of Scotland

1588 – Frederick II, King of Denmark

1807 – Jerome Lalant, French astronomer

1817 – Andre Massena, French marshal

1837 – Louis-Sebastian Lenorman, French physicist

1841 – Jacob Link, German painter and archaeologist

1841 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States

1870 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist

1879 – Henry William Dove, German physicist

1913 – Emmanuel Argyropoulos, Greek aviator

1913 – Konstantinos Manos, Greek activist and poet

1919 – William Crooks, English chemist and physicist

1923 – John Wen, English mathematician

1928 – Konstantinos Maleas, Greek painter

1929 – Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor

1941 – Emine Nazikeda Kadinefendi, Ottoman sultan

1953 – Charles II, King of Romania

1966 – Michael Petridis, Greek physician and politician

1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American activist

1979 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician

1980 – Gikas Biniaris, Greek actor

1982 – Thucydides Valentis, Greek architect

1983 – Gloria Swanson, American actress

1984 – Michael Galinos, Greek politician

1991 – Max Fries, Swiss writer

1993 – Alfred Moser Butch, American architect and inventor of Scrabble

2005 – Marika Tziralidou, Greek actress

2011 – Giuliano Mer Kamis, Israeli actor, director and activist

2013 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic and screenwriter

2014 – Kumba Iala, Guinea-Bissau politician

2016 – Chos Lambreave, Spanish actress