Like today, March 5, 2022

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

1496: King Henry VII of England gives permission to Giovanni Caboto and his sons to explore unknown places.

1558: Tobacco is imported to Europe by the Spanish doctor, Francisco Fernandes.

1770: In Boston, five Americans are fatally shot by British troops, which will contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolution five years later.

1824: Great Britain officially declares war on Burma.

1836: Samuel Colt produces the first mass-produced revolver.

1842: More than 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, occupy San Antonio and return to Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution.

1909: Large strike of tobacco workers in Volos. The strikers are attacking the tobacco warehouses, where the frightened traders have been fortified, with stones and sticks. Protesters then attacked the gendarmerie and exchanged gunfire, injuring both sides. Eventually, the strikers succeed in dismissing their arrested colleagues, while the traffickers accept the demands of the tobacco workers.

1922: The first film about Dracula premieres in cinemas. This is the impressive expressionist film “Nosferatou – The Agreement of Terror”, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

1930: The new statutory charter of civil servants is published in the Government Gazette.

1933: Electoral victory of the anti-Venezuelan parties (United Opposition), which united under the leadership of Panagi Tsaldaris. Due to the current electoral law (majority with a narrow constituency), the parties close to Eleftherios Venizelos (National Alarm), although receiving more votes than the opposing coalition, eventually elect fewer deputies.

1933: Adolf Hitler’s German National Socialist Workers’ Party won 43.9% of the vote in the Reichstag election, allowing the Nazis to establish a dictatorship later.

1940: A document is signed that will lead to the mass execution of 22,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and political prisoners, a crime known as the “Katyn Massacre”. The USSR formally claimed that Joseph Goebbels used the incident as propaganda, as the site of the massacre was discovered by Germans as they advanced east, applying the tactics of lightning war. Copies of the documents on which the official version is based were presented in 1992 by Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to his Polish counterpart, Lech Walesa.

1940: Virgin performance of the Athens Opera, with Strauss’s operetta “Bat”. The inspirer and first director is Kostis Bastias, then general director of State Stages of the Metaxa government.

1950: The miners’ strike, which lasted two months in the US, ends after the government reached an agreement with the unions.

1956: Nikos Koundouros’s film “The Dragon”, starring Dino Iliopoulos, premieres in cinemas. It is considered one of the leading films of Greek cinema.

1959: German war criminal Max Merten is sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Special Military Court for War Criminals in Athens.

1962: As part of the Unrelenting Struggle, the first massive gathering of the Youth of the Center Union is organized at the “Chatzichristou” theater, in which George Papandreou will also speak. The slogan “1-1-4” is also displayed there for the first time (the number of the last article of the 1952 Constitution, which stipulates that “The observance of this Constitution is dedicated to the patriotism of the Greeks”). The rally was followed by a demonstration, which ended in clashes with the police.

1966: A BOAC plane crashes on Mount Fuji in Japan, killing 124 people.

1970: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons enters into force after ratification by 43 states.

1974: During the Yom Kippur War, Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

1981: A large earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, occurred at midnight, causing a new wave of panic in Athens, but mainly in Chalkida, Thebes and the surrounding area. Plataea and the village of Kaparelli suffered the greatest damage.

1994: The first spam program in the history of the Internet to send spam is activated. It is used by an American lawyer named Lawrence Kader to advertise his services. The name spam for this type of e-mail comes from the eponymous TV sketch of Monty Python and was established by the online community.

2000: Demosthenes Tabakos wins the gold medal in the rings during an international rally in Moscow with 9,750 points. In the same race, George Elissiadis is ranked 8th, while in the doubles, Vassilis Tsolakidis occupies the 6th place.

2001: Thirty-five Muslim pilgrims are trampled to death during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

2003: The arrest and detention of the 25-year-old Greek student, Charalambos Dousemetzis, by the British authorities, with the accusation of possession of objects, which could be used either in the preparation or in the execution of a terrorist act, comes to light. Dousemetzis reportedly has his own website, where he states his desire to become a member of “17N”, while in his room were found posters of the organization, two stamps with the star and its logo, a proclamation and books for international terrorist organizations . He is being referred to a local court in Bildeldon for this reason, however the civil lawsuit on April 7 withdraws the charges and the student is released.

2006: “Ice Man” Richard Kuklinski dies. One of the most notorious and cruel executors of the Mafia.

2009: Speech by Costas Karamanlis, on the occasion of the global financial crisis. The Greek Prime Minister emphasizes that vigilance is required, while assuring that the government’s plan will provide solutions, as long as there is conciliation and joining forces.

Births

1133 – Henry II, King of England

1324 – David II, King of Scotland

1326 – Louis I, King of Hungary

1512 – Gerard Mercator, Flemish cartographer

1527 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg

1585 – John George I, elector of Saxony

1685 – Georg Friedrich Heidel, German composer

1696 – Giambattista Tiepolo, Italian painter

1750 – Jean-Baptiste de Vilouzon, French scholar

1841 – Frederick K. Carrer, Greek writer and politician

1857 – Angelos Giallinas, Greek painter

1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, German revolutionary

1898 – Mizao Okawa, Japanese centuries-old

1901 – Louis Kahn, Estonian architect

1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor

1910 – Momofuku Ando, ​​Taiwanese businessman

1918 – James Tobin, American economist

1920 – Gabriel Rober, French footballer

1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and director

1925 – Paul Verge, French politician

1929 – Jay B. Lenore, American songwriter

1933 – Costas Linoxylakis, Greek football player

1935 – George Tolis, Greek physician

1942 – Felipe Gondaleth, Spanish politician

1942 – Adrienne Ungbeji, Prime Minister of Benin

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1950 – Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedante Dias dos Santos

1955 – George Papastamkos, Greek lawyer and politician

1963 – Joel Austin, American bishop

1966 – Asif Madwi, Indian actor

1968 – Gordon Binai, Hungarian politician

1968 – Ambrose Madwolo Dlamini, politician from Eswatini

1970 – John Frusciade, American guitarist

1972 – Luca Tourilli, Italian musician

1973 – Giannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and coach

1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress

1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver

1976 – Saronas Jasikevitsius, Lithuanian basketball player

1982 – Milos Maric, Serbian footballer

1984 – Guillaume Oaro, French footballer

1986 – Mika Newton, Ukrainian singer and actress

Deaths

254 – Pope Lucius I

1303 – Daniel, Prince of Moscow

1417 – Manuel III Komnenos, emperor of Trebizond

1534 – Correggio, Italian painter

1588 – Henry I of Bourbon, Prince of Conte

1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, German physician

1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist

1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician

1876 ​​- Francesco Maria Piave, Italian librettist

1903 – Ezen-Anatole Demarce, French chemist

1903 – Gaston Paris, French scholar

1907 – Friedrich Blas, German scholar

1925 – Johann Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer

1943 – Edmond Toron, Greek resistance fighter

1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer

1953 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader

1964 – Miltos Manakis, Greek cinematographer

1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet

1966 – Konstantinos Spetsiotis, Greek athlete

1967 – Mohammad Mosadek, Iranian politician

1970 – Ioannis Giannikostas, Greek naval officer

1979 – Angelos Mavropoulos, Greek actor

1982 – John Bellucci, American actor

1986 – George Nelson, American industrial designer

1989 – Thanos Generalis, Greek actor

1998 – Christos Svolopoulos, Greek sports writer

2000 – Rena Dor, Greek actress

2004 – Filippos Iliou, Greek historian

2006 – Milan Babic, Serbian politician

2011 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek songwriter

2013 – Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan politician

2016 – Panagiotis Tetsis, Greek painter

2016 – Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer

2016 – Nikolaus Harnonkurt, Austrian conductor

2017 – Kurt Mol, German bass player