312: After his victory in the battle of Milvia bridge, Constantine I enters Rome, where the people welcome him with enthusiasm. Maxentius’ body is caught by Tiberius and beheaded.
969: Byzantine troops occupy Antioch, Syria.
1618: The English adventurer and writer, Sir Walter Raleigh, is beheaded on charges of conspiracy against King James I.
1795: The Austrians prevail over the French after a months-long siege of Mainz, in the context of the First Coalition War.
1814: The first warship, with the Greek name “Demologos”, is launched in the USA.
1859: Spain declares war on Morocco.
1863: In Geneva, the International Red Cross is founded by 16 countries, by the Swiss Henrik Dunant.
1864: The Greek Parliament votes on the new Constitution of the country, which introduces the institution of the ruling democracy.
1888: The Istanbul Convention is signed, which ensures the free passage of the sea through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1912: The Greek headquarters forbids the Bulgarian division of Rilo under General Theodorov to enter Thessaloniki. However, for reasons of modesty, it allows the entry of two battalions, led by the Bulgarian princes, Cyril and Boris.
1914: The Greeks of Cyprus welcome the annexation of the island by Great Britain, as the first step for the union with Greece.
1918: GSEE is founded. The pro-Venezuelan Emmanuel Macheiras is elected general secretary of the newly formed General Confederation of Greek Workers.
1922: The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, entrusts the formation of a new government to Benito Mussolini.
1923: Turkey becomes a democracy after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929: “Black Tuesday” on the American Stock Exchange, or as it was left in history “The Great Crash”. More than $ 10 billion is lost, and it will take 25 years for the Dow Jones index to return to pre-1929 levels.
1933: The first European signaling lights are installed in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
1944: The 1st Polish Armored Division liberates the city of Brenda, in the Netherlands.
1947: Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are forming a customs control association, BENELUX, which will be the forerunner of the European Union.
1953: A British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-6 crashes near San Francisco, killing 19 people.
1956: Beginning of the Suez Crisis: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula, reinforcing Britain and France against Egypt, following the latter’s decision to nationalize the Suez Canal (July 26, 1956). The project will fail.
1956: Maria Callas makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera of New York with Bellini’s “Norma”.
1959: A Douglas DC-3 aircraft of the Olympic Air Force, which operates the route Athens – Thessaloniki, crashes five minutes after taking off from the airport of Elliniko. The 18 occupants are pulled out dead.
1960: Cassius Clay (later known as Mohamed Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1961: Konstantinos Karamanlis’ EPE wins the elections again with 50.79% of the votes, amid allegations by the opposition of fraud. According to the complaints, even the trees voted. The leader of the Center Union, George Papandreou, declares the “Unrelenting Struggle”.
1964: Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania.
1964: Makes “wings” from the Museum of Natural History in New York, a collection of precious stones, including the “Star of India”, a sapphire of 565 carats.
1966: A destructive earthquake “hits” the area of ​​Xiromero, Etoloakarnania, with a death toll of 1 dead, 10 seriously injured and 10,000 homeless.
1969: The first connection from computer to computer in the ARPANET network is made.
1988: The Koskotas scandal erupts when the Minister of Education, George Papandreou, accuses the president of Olympiacos, George Koskotas, of illegal transactions with the Merrill Lynch bank.
1998: Hurricane Mitch hits Honduras. At least 11,000 people are dying in Central America.
2004: The Arabic television network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of its Saudi leader, Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, in which he claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001. He also refers to the US presidential election, characterizing corrupt the government of George W. Bush.
2004: In a festive atmosphere, in Rome, the leaders of the 25 member states of the European Union and the candidates Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey sign the treaty of the European Constitution.
2005: Bombings in New Delhi, India have killed more than 60 people.
Births
1507 – Ferdinando Alvaro de Toledo, Spanish nobleman
1879 – Franz von Papen, German politician
1882 – Jean Zirondou, French writer
1897 – Joseph Goebbels, German politician
1914 – Patriarch Sofia Maximos
1926 – Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish politician
1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician
1930 – Nike de Saint-Fal, French artist
1938 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian politician
1940 – Giannis Theonas, Greek politician
1940 – Frida Bocara, French singer
1947 – Richard Dreyfus, American actor
1949 – Paul Orddorf, American wrestler
1950 – Abdullah Gul, Turkish politician
1959 – John Magoufouli, Tanzanian politician
1969 – George Donis, Greek football player
1969 – Eleni Menegaki, Greek TV presenter
1970 – Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress
1973 – Robert Pires, French footballer
1977 – Vangelis Kaunos, Greek football player
1980 – Ben Foster, American actor
1981 – George Fotakis, Greek football player
1998 – Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver
Deaths
606 – Kyriakos II, Patriarch of Constantinople
1268 – Corradino, King of Jerusalem
1321 – Stefan Uros II Milutin, King of Serbia
1590 – Dirk Kornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian and politician
1618 – Walter Raleigh, English soldier and explorer
1783 – Jean le Rod d’Alabert, French mathematician
1869 – Christodoulos Hadjipetros, Greek fighter
1905 – Etienne Demarto, Canadian athlete
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian politician and publisher
1936 – Ramiro Lentesma, Spanish politician
1949 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic
1950 – Gustav V, King of Sweden
1965 – Mehdi Ben Barca, Moroccan politician
1972 – Victor Milner, American filmmaker
1979 – Konstantinos Maris, Greek politician
1981 – Stylianos Mavromichalis, Greek judge and politician
1986 – Nikos Angelakis, Greek football player
1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor
1993 – Loukas Mousoulos, Cypriot engineer
1997 – Andreas Michalitsianos, Greek astrophysicist
2006 – Maria Kalouta, Greek actress
2007 – Christian d’Oriola, French swordsman
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