399 BC: The philosopher Socrates is condemned to drink hemp, because he “introduced new demons” in the Athenian State.
360: The first church of Hagia Sophia is inaugurated by the Byzantine emperor Constantius. Ioannis Chrysostomos and Grigorios Nazianzinos speak at the ceremony.
706: The Byzantine emperor Justinian II publicly executes his predecessors, Leontius and Tiberius III, at the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1493: Christopher Columbus wrote an open letter (which was widely circulated on his return to Portugal), in which he described his discoveries and what he unexpectedly encountered in the New World.
1564: Galileo Galilei was born, known in Greece as Galileo, an Italian astronomer and physicist who supported the heliocentric theory, which he was forced to renounce by the Inquisition.
1857: The occupation of Athens and Piraeus by the Anglo-French ends. It had been imposed due to the insistence of King Otto to undertake a campaign for the liberation of Thessaly.
1898: The Spanish-American War begins on the occasion of the explosion of the battleship “Maine”, in the port of Havana, in Spanish-occupied Cuba.
1902: In Germany, the Berlin metro is inaugurated.
1936: The creation of the “popular car” is announced. This is the most popular “scarab” of Volkswagen to date.
1941: Duke Ellington records the great success of “Take The A Train”.
1942: Singapore is falling. After an attack by Japanese forces, the British surrender. About 80,000 Indian, British and Australian soldiers are taken prisoner of war.
[1945: The bombing of Dresden continues for a third day.
1946: ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer, is officially launched at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1951: The People’s Party MP and former Minister of Transport, Panos Hatzipanos, is sentenced by the Special Court (Ministerial Court) to two months in prison with a three-year suspension for infidelity against the State, related to a fuel transfer scandal.
1961: Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 75 people, including the entire American figure skating team along with several coaches and their families.
1965: A red and white maple leaf becomes a symbol of the Canadian flag, replacing the Red Banner.
1972: For the first time, the United States is granting federal copyright protection to recordings.
1974: The pumping of oil from the first layer of the deposits of Thassos reaches 10,000 barrels per day.
1989: The Soviet Union announces that its last soldier has also left Afghanistan.
1991: The leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland sign the Visegrad Agreement, establishing co-operation to move to free market systems.
1995: PASOK accepts the proposal of the president of the Political Spring, Antonis Samaras, for Konstantinos Stefanopoulos to be a candidate for the presidency of the Republic.
1999: The leader of the Kurdish PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, leaves the Greek embassy in Kenya, but is arrested by Kenyan police and handed over to his Turkish pursuers.
2003: In more than 600 cities around the world, thousands of protesters are protesting against a possible war in Iraq. It is estimated that about 30 million people participated. In the end, they did not convince the Bush administration.
2005: The popular YouTube video sharing site is launched.
2020: The first death from the new coronavirus in Europe occurs in France. The victim is an 80-year-old Chinese tourist, who had arrived in Paris showing symptoms of the disease on January 16.
2021: The World Health Organization announces the approval of the Oxford – AstraZeneca vaccine.
Births
1368 – Sigismund, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1557 – Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer
1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
1571 – Michael Pretorius, German composer
1710 – Louis XIV, King of France
1739 – Charles Henri Sanson, French executioner
1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English lawyer and philosopher
1806 – Solomon Andrews, American inventor
1835 – Dimitrios Vikelas, Greek writer
1840 – Tito Magiorescu, Romanian politician
1857 – Federico Halber, Italian archaeologist
1858 – John Joseph Montgomery, American inventor and engineer
1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist
1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist
1874 – Ernest Sackleton, Irish explorer
1890 – Robert Lai, German Nazi official
1892 – James Forrestal, American politician
1899 – Gale Sodergaard, American actress
1910 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker
1940 – Ismail Cem, Turkish politician
1941 – Babis Tsetinis, Greek singer
1947 – Giannis Floriniotis, Greek singer
1952 – Tomislav Nikolic, Serbian politician
1954 – Matt Greening, American cartoonist
1970 – Megan Dodd, American actress
1974 – Alexander Wurtz, Austrian race driver
1976 – George Karagoutis, Greek basketball player
1980 – Piotr Gelfimov, Belarusian singer
1983 – Antonis Aresti, Cypriot athlete
1984 – Doda (pronounced Dorota Rabcevska), Polish singer
1991 – Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Greek football player
Deaths
670 – Osui, King of Northumbria
706 – Leontius, Byzantine emperor
706 – Tiberius III, Byzantine emperor
1145 – Pope Lucius II
1152 – Korrad III, king of Germany
1621 – Michael Pretorius, German composer
1637 – Ferdinand II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1731 – Maria Beyo καιe and Delgado, Spanish nun
1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German writer and philosopher
1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
1887 – Joachim IV, Patriarch of Constantinople
1900 – Achilles Gerokostopoulos, Greek politician
1905 – Liu Wallace, US military and politician
1939 – Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter
1946 – Malik Busati, Albanian politician
1959 – Owen Wheelans Richardson, English physicist
1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer
1970 – Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast
1970 – Hugh Downing, British soldier
1982 – Kalliopi Liga, Greek heroine
1988 – Phoebus Delphi, Greek poet
1988 – Richard Phillips Feynman, American physicist
1998 – George Mylonas, Greek politician
2003 – Babis Markakis, Greek singer
2003 – Francis Ravoni, Prime Minister of Madagascar
2007 – Robert Adler, Austrian inventor
2007 – Ray Evans, American songwriter
2008 – Dolly Goulandris, Greek businesswoman
2009 – Savvas Agouridis, Greek theologian
2011 – Giannis Karabesinis, Greek composer
Source: News Beast
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