What happened like today in Greece and the world.
552: The Byzantine Army, under General Narses, recaptures Rome, which was held by the Goths. Emperor Justinian thus realizes the vision of restoring the empire to its former extent and glory.
913: Emperor Alexander dies of exhaustion while playing zikanio (a Byzantine version of polo). He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew, Konstantinos VII.
1513: Swiss troops defeat the French, forcing them to leave Milan. Duke Maximilianos Sforza is restored.
1644: Manchu forces of the Qing Dynasty, led by Emperor Shunzi, occupy Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
1809: Sweden publishes new Constitution, restoring political power to Parliament after 20 years of enlightened despotism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustavus IV Adolphus as king.
1822: THE Konstantinos Kanaris sets fire to the Ottoman flagship in Chios, taking revenge for the Massacre on the island. 2,000 Ottoman sailors and officers are killed, including Admiral Kara Alis.
1850: Levi Strauss presents the first pair of jeans.
1859: Legally recognized by Queen Victoria as an independent colony of Queensland in Australia.
1862: During the American Civil War, the Union occupies Memphis, Tennessee.
1863: A delegation from the Hellenic Parliament arrives in Copenhagen and offers the crown to the 18-year-old Prince of Denmark, William George, later King George I.
1912: The first eruption of Alaska’s Novarapta volcano is recorded.
1918: The Battle of Belo Wood during World War I begins.
1923: At the Lausanne Conference, the Greek-Turkish borders are definitively defined, in the middle of the river Evros. Ankara withdraws any objection to granting Kastellorizos to Italy.
1925: The Chrysler automobile company is founded.
1929: The Venizelos government resigns in order to reform.
1933: A new assassination attempt is made against Eleftherios Venizelos, this time in Athens, while he is with his wife, Elena, in the car.
1933: The first drive-in movie theater opens its doors in Camden, New Jersey.
1942: During World War II, the Nazis burn down the Czech village of Ledis in retaliation for the assassination of SS General Reinhard Heydrich.
1944: The Allies land in Normandy and the great offensive begins, which will go a long way in deciding the final winner of World War II. The day will be known as D-Day.”
1946: The BAA is founded and organizes the first American Professional Basketball Championship.
1949: Metropolitan Spyridon of Ioannina is elected the new archbishop of Athens.
1950: Poland and the German Democratic Republic recognize the Oder-Neisse line as the new “peace border” between the two countries.
1963: In Iran, more than 30 Muslim religious leaders, including Ayatollah Khomeini, are arrested during riots that break out in Tehran and spread to other cities.
1965: The Rolling Stones release their legendary song ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’.
1966: In a protest march in Mississippi, James Marshall, an activist and great fighter for African-American civil rights, is fatally shot by a sniper.
1968: Assassination of Robert Kennedy: Robert Kennedy, a Democratic senator from New York and brother of 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, succumbs to his gunshot wounds on June 5.
1971: The Russian rocket “Soyuz 11” is launched into space.
1972: In Rhodesia, an underground explosion kills 422 miners.
1981: 800 people die in the world’s worst train accident in Bihar, India.
1984: Russian mathematician, Alexei Pazhitnov, introduces the popular video game Tetris. Its name comes from the Greek numerical prefix “tetra-” and the word “tenis”.
1985: The body of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor at the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp who went down in history as the “Angel of Death” because of his experiments on humans, which usually resulted in death, is found and exhumed.
1987: Steffi Graf, 9 days shy of her 18th birthday, becomes the youngest player to win Roland Garros with a 2-1 sets win over Martina Navratilova in the final.
1990: The poetry collection of Odysseus Elytis “The public and the private” is released.
1991: 8 people die, 128 are injured, and many arrests are made during celebrations for Chile’s first success in the Copa Libertadores, after Colo Colo’s 3-0 victory over Olimpia (Paraguay) in front of 65,000 spectators. in Santiago.
1992: The first Greek feminist, Kalliroi Paren, is honored with the unveiling of her bust in the First Cemetery of Athens.
1993: In Liberia, the Patriotic National Front launches a fierce attack against the Firestone company’s facilities, as a result of which 250 civilians are killed.
1994: Kostas Koukodimos sets a pan-Hellenic length record with 8.36 m in “Venizelia”, Crete.
1994: A Chinese Tupolev airliner crashes minutes after takeoff near the city of Xi’an, killing 146 passengers and a crew of 14.
1995: Greece becomes a full member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Near Eastern Economic Cooperation.
1995: South Africa abolishes the death penalty.
1996: Darlie Routhier’s two sons are fatally stabbed. Later it will be established that the murder was committed by their own mother, who is sentenced to death.
1997: PASOK and ND submit to the Parliament their proposals for the revision of the Constitution, with the main difference being the way of electing the President of the Republic.
2002: In the Libyan Sea, between Crete and Libya, an asteroid explodes in the air. The force of the explosion is that of a small atomic bomb.
Births
1436 – Regiomontano, German mathematician
1471 – James of Baden, archbishop-elector of Trier
1511 – Jacob Seg, German philosopher
1584 – Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese general
1599 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist
1622 – Claude Jean Allouet, French missionary and explorer
1714 – Joseph I, King of Portugal
1749 – Nikodimos the Saint, Greek ascetic
1756 – John Trumbull, American painter
1772 – Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Holy Roman Empress
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer
1850 – Carl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist and Nobel laureate
1857 – Alexander Lyapunov, Russian mathematician
1862 – Henry John Newboldt, English author
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer
1872 – Alexandra, Empress of Russia
1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer
1891 – Erich Marx, German general
1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer
1900 – Manfred Sackel, Polish psychiatrist
1901 – Sukarno, president of Indonesia
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer
1905 – Minos Zotos, Greek poet
1905 – Charalambos Francistas, Greek politician
1906 – Max August Zorn, German mathematician
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player
1909 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian philosopher
1916 – Amani Diori, president of Niger
1918 – Martin Eslin, Hungarian dramatist
1918 – Edward Krebs, American biochemist
1925 – Maxine Kumin, American writer
1927 – Elijah Mudeda, Prime Minister of Zambia
1930 – Galatea Grigoriadou-Soureli, Greek writer
1931 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate
1934 – Albert II, King of Belgium
1936 – Levi Stamp, American musician
1939 – Louis Andriesen, Dutch composer
1939 – Gary Bonds, American musician
1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel laureate
1944 – Tommy Smith, American athlete
1947 – Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
1949 – Yannis Mantzourakis, Greek football player and coach
1951 – Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician
1951 – Paulo Casoma, politician from Angola
1952 – Andreas Mikroutsikos, Greek songwriter and presenter
1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
1956 – Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1959 – George Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1960 – Steve Vai, American guitarist
1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean singer and bassist
1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor
1966 – For Gnassingbe, Togolese politician
1967 – Alexandros Stavrou, Greek actor
1969 – Mathildi Maggira, Greek actress
1969 – Fernando Redondo, Argentine soccer player
1985 – Rodrigo Javier Artsubi, Argentine soccer player
Deaths
810 – Rotrudi, princess of the Franks
913 – Alexander, Byzantine emperor
1217 – Henry I, King of Castile
1530 – Boniface IV, Marquis of Momferrato
1710 – Louise de la Valliere, French noblewoman
1799 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher
1861 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician
1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor
1891 – John MacDonald, Prime Minister of Canada
1916 – Michael Mitsakis, Greek journalist and writer
1943 – Pantelis Pouliopoulos, Greek politician
1946 – Gerhard Hauptmann, German dramatist
1948 – Louis Limière, French filmmaker
1960 – Spyridon Vikatos, Greek painter
1960 – Christos Mantikas, Greek athlete
1961 – Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
1961 – Ioannis Theotokis, Greek politician
1962 – Yves Klein, French artist
1968 – Robert Kennedy, American politician
1978 – Angelos Messaris, Greek football player
1981 – Carleton Kuhn, American anthropologist
1984 – Bertram Chandler, American writer
1989 – Dimitrios Vakalis, Greek politician
1995 – Diamantis Diamantopoulos, Greek painter
1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist and Nobel laureate
2001 – Jose Manuel Castañon, Spanish writer
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress
2016 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player
2016 – Spyros Pissanos, Greek aviator
2016 – Peter Shafer, English playwright.
Source: News Beast
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