406: Vandals, Alans and Swabians cross the Rhine and invade Galatia.
535: The Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, expelling the Ostrogothic garrison in Syracuse.
1229: James I of Aragon enters Madina Mallorca (now known as Palma de Mallorca) thus completing the Christian recapture of the island.
1600: The British East India Company is founded.
1687: The first Huguenots from the Netherlands set sail for the Cape of Good Hope.
1781: The first American bank, the Bank of North America, is founded.
1822: The first siege of Messolonghi by Omer Vryonis and Kioutachis ends, with significant losses of the enemy in animate and inanimate material.
1836: A school of architects is established by royal decree, under the name “School of Arts”.
1841: Alabama becomes the first US state to recognize the profession of dentist.
1857: Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
1879: Thomas Edison unveils the first incandescent light bulb on a New Jersey street.
1911: The Venizelists of Chania and Sfakia join the revolutionary movement for the liberation of Crete.
1923: Big Ben’s sound is broadcast for the first time on BBC radio.
1929: 69 children, including infants, are killed in Paisley, Scotland, when panic breaks out in a movie theater.
1944: The 22-year-old student of the Polytechnic, Iannis Xenakis, is injured by a piece of mortar on his face during the December events. The later great composer belonged to the “Lord Byron” company of EPON.
1946: US President Harry Truman officially declares the end of all hostilities of World War II.
1952: With the decision number 14374 of the Athens Court of First Instance, the Association of Sports Writers (SAS) is recognized as an official association. In 1971 it will be renamed to SAT and on April 17, 1981 to PSAT.
1957: The cellular tomb of Nileas, father of the king of Pylos Nestor, is discovered in Pylos. A 3,000-year-old wing of Nestor’s palace is also discovered.
1958: In Cuba, the combined forces of Ernesto Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos attack Santa Clara. By afternoon, the city was under guerrilla control. This victory for Castro’s troops is considered the most decisive moment of the Cuban Revolution, as after this event, Batista will leave Cuba in less than 12 hours.
1961: Formal end of the Marshall Plan.
1968: The first supersonic passenger plane, a “Tupolev 144”, makes its maiden flight.
1987: Subtract one second from 1987 to smooth out one of the inherent anomalies of the Gregorian Calendar.
1989: The private television station ANT1, owned by Minos Kyriakou, begins its broadcasts. It is the second private channel that broadcasts a television program in Greece.
1991: The Red Flag, which has been flying in the Kremlin for over seventy years, is being lowered and replaced by the tricolor flag of Russia. The USSR formally ceases to exist.
1992: Czechoslovakia is spending its last hours as a single state. From 1 January 1993 Europe will have two new states: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994: A four-month ceasefire agreement is signed in Bosnia, completing a thousand days of siege of Sarajevo.
1997: Microsoft Acquires Hotmail Email Service
1999: Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected president, has resigned and named Vladimir Putin as caretaker president.
2004: Special guard Charalambos Amanatidis is killed outside the home of the British military supporter in Kifissia. His death is attributed to a terrorist act.
2005: The Greek service of the BBC is silent.
2008: European Union Foreign Ministers are calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Israel is negative. More than 370 Palestinians were killed and 1,700 were injured.
2009: The number of dead immigrants that “washes away” the Thracian Sea reaches 21. The unfortunates were aboard a boat, which capsized due to the strong north winds. The bodies were found on the beaches of Delfini, Alexandroupolis and Magana, Abdera, Rodopi.
2010: Vangelis Marinakis officially becomes the new president of Olympiacos, after the completion of the General Assembly, where the delivery-receipt is made by Socrates Kokkalis.
2019: The center of Wuhan admitted that there was a complex of unknown pneumonia in the Juan seafood market. The coronavirus pandemic will then be triggered.
Births
1378 – Pope Callistus III
1514 – Andreas Vesalios, Flemish anatomist
1738 – Jean Herman, French physician and naturalist
1838 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor
1858 – Xenophon Moschos, Greek theologian
1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter
1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi hunter
1912 – George Roussopoulos, Greek footballer and coach
1923 – Giannis Dalianidis, Greek director
1929 – Costas Karapatis, Greek football player
1931 – Costas Voutsas, Greek actor
1933 – Chryssa, Greek sculptor
1935 – Salman, King of Saudi Arabia
1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
1939 – Willie White, American athlete
1941 – Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and coach
1943 – Yagovi Agboigo, Togolese politician
1943 – Ben Kingsley, English actor
1948 – Donna Summer, American singer
1949 – Themis Andreadis, Greek singer
1949 – Deloa Casire Kumakoye becomes Prime Minister of Chad
1954 – Alex Salmond, Scottish politician
1956 – Paramanga Ernest Yonli becomes Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
1959 – Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player
1959 – Baron Waka, President of Nauru
1963 – Petros Filippidis, Greek actor
1965 – Gong Li, Chinese actress
1965 – Nicholas Sparks, American writer
1970 – Gary Hellock, English footballer
1972 – Joe McIntyre, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Psy, South Korean singer
1979 – Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
1982 – Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
Deaths
192 – Commodus, Roman emperor
335 – Pope Sylvester I
1194 – Leopold V, Duke of Austria
1299 – Margarita, Countess of Anjou
1302 – Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine
1426 – Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
1575 – Pierino Belli, Italian military and lawyer
1583 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian
1616 – Jacob Le Mer, Dutch sailor
1679 – Giovanni Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist
1719 – John Flamstead, English astronomer
1761 – Jean Moro de Seychelles, French politician
1877 – Gustave Courbet, French painter
1882 – Leon Gabetta, French politician
1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher
1988 – Nikolas Kalas, Greek poet
1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician
1993 – Alexander Girard, American architect
1994 – Lee Bowery, Australian singer and actor
2006 – Lise Prokop, Austrian athlete and politician
2007 – Ettore Sotsas, Austrian architect and designer
2017 – Francis, Earl of Clermont
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