What happened like today in Greece and the world.
364: The Roman emperor, Jovian, dies under suspicious circumstances after a reign of eight months. He was found dead in his tent in Tyana, Asia Minor, while returning to Constantinople.
1411: After his successful campaigns during the Ottoman Empire, Musa Celebi, one of Bayezid I’s sons, becomes sultan.
1801: An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when the former is elected president of the United States (the nation’s 3rd president) and the latter is elected vice president by the House of Representatives.
1817: Baltimore becomes the first US city whose streets are lit by gas lamps.
1864: During the American Civil War, the Southern submarine Hanley attacks the Northern warship Hauzotonic. Both end up at the bottom. This is the first naval battle between a submarine and a surface ship.
1867: The first ship through the Suez Canal passes.
1869: The first test route of the steam-powered urban railway Athens – Piraeus is being carried out.
1904: Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly” premieres at La Scala in Milan.
1914: The Greek Army leaves Northern Epirus, following the demand of the Great Powers. The temporary government of the region is formed under Georgios Christakis-Zografos, which declares its autonomy.
1914: British suffragettes attack and smash the windows of the home secretary’s house and set fire to the premises of a tennis club, vigorously and violently demanding the right to vote.
1922: A Dadaist meeting takes place at the “Closerie des Lilas” cafe in Paris, the subject of which is the dispute between Andre Breton and Tristan Jara for the leadership of the movement. Around 100 people attend, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi and Jacques Cocteau. The two rivals exchange arguments, but also insults, until the referee, Eric Satie, declares Jara the winner. Breton would leave and create Surrealism.
1929: The first screening of a motion picture on a plane by the airline “Universal” takes place.
1933: In the US, Prohibition is ending.
1949: Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first president of the State of Israel.
1965: Ranger 8 launches to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. The “Mare Tranquillitatis” or “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the landing of “Apollo 11”.
1972: In Great Britain, the House of Commons votes in favor of the country joining the EEC.
1972: Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen ‘scarab’ exceed those of the Ford Model T.
1978: A firebomb is detonated in a restaurant near Belfast, killing 12 people and injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
1979: The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980: The first winter ascent of Everest is made by Krzysztof Wielitski and Lasek Kitsi.
1982: In Greece, civil marriage is established as equal to religious marriage.
1996: In Philadelphia, USA, the world champion, Garry Kasparov, defeats the Deep blue supercomputer at chess.
2003: Tolls begin to be imposed on those entering with their cars in the center of London.
2006: Large mudslide in the Philippines officially kills 1,126 people.
2008: Kosovo becomes independent. The Parliament of the country announces, unilaterally, the secession from Serbia, which, however, does not accept it and appeals to the UN.
2018: AEK wins the Greek Cup in basketball.
2020: The private television station Mega Channel is re-opening
2021: Astronomers announce the discovery of the sub-Neptune exoplanet HD 110082 b, which is three times the size of Earth and orbits a relatively young star.
2022: The United Nations Security Council convenes to discuss Russia’s military buildup on the Ukrainian border.
Births
1490 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise
1524 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
1653 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer
1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
1783 – Georgios Kapodistrias, Greek businessman
1800 – Ludovikos Liparini, Italian painter
1855 – Othon Lyman von Saunders, German general
1865 – Ernst Trelts, German theologian
1870 – Georgy Gapon, Russian priest
1880 – Captain Agras, Greek Macedonian fighter
1888 – Otto Stern, German physicist
1902 – Nitsa Tsaganea, Greek actress
1926 – Archpriest John Magendorff, French theologian
1927 – Juan Almeida Vosque, Cuban politician
1929 – Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean artist
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1951 – Olga Tremi, Greek journalist
1954 – Brian Houston, Australian pastor
1957 – Lorina Mackenitt, Canadian singer
1961 – Andrei Korotaev, Russian anthropologist and sociologist
1963 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player
1966 – Yannis Kalitzakis, Greek football player
1966 – Quorthon (born Thomas Forsberg), Swedish musician
1969 – Antonis Kanakis, Greek presenter, director and actor
1971 – Ilija Ivić, Serbian football player
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician
1976 – Kelly Carlson, American actress
1976 – Lefteris Fafalis, Greek skier
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
1981 – Paris Hilton, American model and socialite
1983 – Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
1991 – Ed Sheeran, English singer
1993 – Marc Marquez, Spanish motorcyclist
Deaths
306 – Agios Theodoros of Tiron
364 – Jovian, Roman emperor
440 – Saint Mesrop Mastots, Armenian monk and linguist
1220 – Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine
1339 – Othon, Duke of Austria
1371 – Ivan Alexander, Tsar of Bulgaria
1411 – Suleiman Celebi, Ottoman leader
1596 – Friedrich Schilburg, German scholar
1600 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
1612 – Ernest of Bavaria, archbishop of Cologne
1652 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer
1673 – Moliere, French playwright
1825 – Robert Lede, French politician
1856 – Heinrich Heine, German writer
1872 – Jean-Marie Le Brie, French aviator and inventor
1903 – Ignatius Moshakis, Greek theologian
1909 – Geronimo, Apache leader
1927 – Francis Lane, American athlete
1934 – Albert I, King of Belgium
1946 – Benjamin, Patriarch of Constantinople
1949 – Ellery Clark, American athlete
1970 – Samuel Joseph Agnon, Israeli writer
1986 – Jidu Krishnamurti, Indian Aristocrat and philosopher
1993 – Kostas Karagiannis, Greek director
1996 – Michalis Raptis, Greek Trotskyist
2002 – Max Roman, Greek film producer
2005 – Athanasios Nasioudzik, Greek writer
2007 – Mary Kay, American musician
2007 – Maurice Papon, French politician
2016 – Andrzej Zulawski, Polish director
2017 – Evangelos Basiakos, Greek politician
Source: News Beast
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