1170: Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II of England. He would later be recognized as a saint and witness by the Anglican Society and the Catholic Church.
1427: The Ming Dynasty army begins its withdrawal from Hanoi, ending Ming rule in Dai Viet.
1835: The first decision is taken for the operation of the municipal authority of Piraeus.
1837: The first steam engine to receive a patent in America.
1845: Texas becomes the 28th US State.
1851: The first American Christian Youth Brotherhood opens in Boston.
1852: Emma Stondras is arrested in Boston because she was wearing pants.
1862: The only ball with holes is patented, that of bowling.
1890: The 7th Mile Cavalry of the USA kills 400 men and women at the site of Wooden Ni Creek. It is the last major battle between Indian and American forces, during which the leader of the Sioux “Big Foot” is killed.
1891: Thomas Edison obtains a patent for wireless radio.
1901: Moliere’s comedy “Librarian” is coming up for the first time in Greece, at the Royal Theater.
1916: The monk Gregory Rasputin was assassinated by two Russian nobles in St. Petersburg, who had a huge influence on the tsarist court and specifically on Tsar Alexandra.
1924By decree, the institution of the City Police in Athens, which had started in Corfu, enters into force on January 15, 1925.
1940: The submarine “Proteus” sinks the Italian siege “Sardinia” east of Brindisi. But then he was shot by an Italian torpedo boat and sank spontaneously. The same day, the German air force “Luftwaffe” drops 10,000 bombs on London, in one of the most nightmarish nights for the British capital. 3,000 civilians are killed.
1944: World War II: The Battle of Budapest: The siege of the city begins, when the Red Army and the Romanian Army encircle the German and Hungarian forces. It will end on February 13, 1945 with the unconditional surrender of the city to the Soviets.
1951: The US Atomic Energy Commission announces that it has started generating electricity using atomic energy.
1952: The first hearing aid, based on a crystal amplifier (transistor), is released in the USA.
1953: The kilo instead of the okas and the meter instead of the bar are established in Greece.
1955: Barbra Streisand makes her first recording at the age of just 13.
1958: OPAP is founded, with the Royal Decree 20, On the Establishment of an Organization of Football Prediction Games.
1964: After 19 months of interrogations, the Athens Council for Criminal Procedure refers to the murder of Grigoris Lambrakis, Gotzamanis and Emmanouilidis, on the charge of premeditated murder, and Giosmas and Kapelonis for moral instigation. Gendarmerie officers are referred for breach of duty.
1987: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko breaks the record for the longest stay in space with 326 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes, when his spaceship rests on the ground.
1989: The playwright and freedom fighter for democracy and democracy, Vaclav Havel, is sworn in as the first democratically elected and non-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
1991: CNN co-founder Ted Turner has been named Man of the Year by Time magazine.
1995: The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes advantage of the situation that has been created and delivers a verbal statement in the corresponding Greek, in which it is stated that the Imia rocky islets have been registered in the Mugla cadastre of Boudrum (Alikarnassos) prefecture and belong to Turkey.
1996: A peace agreement is signed ending the 36-year-old civil war in Guatemala.
1997: 1.4 million chickens are slaughtered in Hong Kong, following the death of four people from poultry flu.
1998: The Greek and Cypriot governments decide after the strong reactions of Ankara to install the Russian-made anti-ballistic missiles S-300 in Crete.
1998: Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the 1970s Cambodian genocide that claimed the lives of more than a million people.
2001: Glafkos Clerides reciprocates the dinner of December 5th to Rauf Denktash, hosting the Turkish Cypriot leader at his home in Nicosia. On the same day, more than 270 people lost their lives and about 100 were injured when a fire broke out in a fireworks store in a busy shopping center in the Peruvian capital, Lima.
2007: Police arrest eight people during a major operation in Zoniana and Fodele, Heraklion, for ATM robberies and remittances.
2008: Joseph Stalin is voted Russia’s third most popular historical figure. First Alexander Nevsky and second Peter Stolypin.
2013: Michael Schumacher is seriously injured in the head, while skiing in the French Alps, at the resort of Meribel. The seven-time Formula 1 champion is being treated at a local hospital.
2014: The rescue operation of “Norman Atlantic” continues under adverse weather conditions. A total of 211 people were rescued – until the early morning hours of December 29 – out of a total of 478 passengers (55 crew members).
Births
1552 – Henry I of Bourbon, prince of Conte
1709 – Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
1800 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor
1808 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
1809 – William Gladstone, English politician
1843 – Elizabeth of Vid, Queen of Romania
1893 – Vera Britten, English writer
1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy
1916 – Mary Aroni, Greek actress
1920 – Jozef Iloilo, President of Fiji
1921 – Dobrica Csosic, Serbian writer and politician
1937 – Maumun Abdul Gayum, President of the Maldives
1938 – John Voight, American actor
1946 – Marianne Faithful, English singer
1947 – Cozy Powell, English drummer
1948 – Peter Robinson, a Northern Irish politician
1948 – Dimitris Psarianos, Greek singer
1959 – Anne Demulmester, Belgian fashion designer
1969 – Alan McNeese, Scottish racing driver
1966 – Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer
1972 – Jude Law, English actor
1989 – Kay Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
Deaths
1703 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan
1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter
1877 – Dimitrios Voulgaris, Greek politician
1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet
1916 – Gregory Rasputin, Russian monk
1924 – Karl Spitler, Swiss poet
1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer
1935 – Photios II, Patriarch of Constantinople
1940 – Michael Hatzikonstantis, Greek soldier
1941 – Nikolaos Troulinos, Greek politician
1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer and conductor
1966 – George Moschos, Greek basketball player
1969 – Potis Tsimbidaros, Greek journalist and politician
1972 – Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek missionary
1986 – Harold Macmillan, English politician
1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director
1993 – Loengrin Filipello, Swiss TV presenter
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist
2006 – Marios Ploritis, Greek writer and journalist
2011 – Nikolaos Stavrou, Greek writer
2018 – Marianna Toli, Greek actress and singer
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