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602: Phocas dethrones Maurice and becomes emperor of Byzantium.
1248: The Christian troops led by Fernando III of Castile occupy Seville.
1499: The aspiring English throne, Perkin Warbeck, is hanged because he is said to have tried to escape from the Tower of London.
1644: The English poet John Milton publishes the brochure “Areopagitika” for freedom of the press.
1803: The representatives of the Ionian Islands in a special assembly vote for a new Constitution. The Ionian Islands are recognized as a single state with an oligarchic government. Executive power is exercised by the Senate. The hereditary aristocracy was abolished. The use of the Greek language is mandatory in all sectors of the state.
1826: George Karaiskakis attacks in Arachova against the Turkalvans under Mustafabei and achieves a significant victory. The Turkish casualties are about 1,300 dead and 200 prisoners. Among the dead is Mustafabeis himself. An arch is erected with their severed heads.
1828: A force of some 3,000 Greeks under the command of Kitsos Tzavelas defeats the 4,500 Turks of Kariofil Bey in Karpenisi and leads them on a mischievous flight in the direction of Agrafa.
1837: In Greece a law “On the press” is enacted and penalties are imposed on offenders.
1863: The Battle of Chattanooga begins, one of the most important of the American Civil War.
1867: Three Irish nationalists are executed in Manchester for killing a policeman. They will go down in history as the “Manchester Witnesses.”
1869: The Cutty Sark Sailboat, one of the last to be built and surviving to this day, is launched in Dabarton, Scotland.
1889: The first jukebox is placed in a San Francisco room.
1897: African American inventor John Lee Love discovers and patents a pencil sharpener.
1903: The famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He plays the role of the duke in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto”.
1904: The closing ceremony of the Third Modern Olympic Games takes place in St. Louis, USA A gold medal is the count of Greece, in weightlifting, by Periklis Kakousis.
1909: The Wright brothers created a commercial aircraft company.
1916: The revolutionary government of Salonica, under Eleftherios Venizelos, declares war on Germany and Bulgaria.
1924: Edwin Hubble’s discovery in the New York Times is published for the first time that the Andromeda Nebula is actually a galaxy far away from our own.
1936: The first issue of the American magazine “Life” is published.
1940: The Kingdom of Romania signs the Tripartite Axis Pact and formally joins its forces.
1946: The French Navy bombs Hi Fong in Vietnam, killing thousands of civilians.
1964: The Vatican abolished Latin as the official language of the Roman Catholic liturgy.
1964: American cardiac surgeon Michael DeBake performs the first coronary artery bypass.
1976: A YS-11A Olympic Air helicopter crashes near Kozani, killing all 50 people on board.
1980: An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale shook the southern regions of Italy. Entire villages are devastated and the dead exceed 3,000.
1981: In the Greek schools the polytonic system is suppressed and the monotonous one is introduced. Fines, forests and fences disappear.
1988: The president of Olympiacos and the Bank of Crete, George Koskotas, is arrested by the FBI in the United States for debts with the American state (“Koskotas scandal”).
1989: PASOK, New Democracy and Coalition agree and Xenophon Zolotas forms his ecumenical government.
1989: The first concert of the Orquesta de Colores is held at the Pallas Cinema under the direction of its founder Manos Hadjidakis.
1992: IBM introduces the first “smart” mobile phone (smartphone) codenamed “Angler” at the COMDEX show in Las Vegas.
1994: The Corinth Criminal Court imposes a life sentence of 21 years on Manolis Douris, for the rape and murder of his 7-year-old son. On February 25, 1996, Manolis Douris imposed the “death penalty” on himself.
nineteen ninety six: Greece’s model Irini Skliva wins the world title of Miss World in India. At the same time, there are reactions from the Indian people to the organization of beauty pageants.
1999: Leonidas Sampanis wins two silver medals in the 62 kg category and Ioanna Hatziioannou the bronze in the 63 kg zete at the SEF World Weightlifting Championships.
2000: The European Court of Human Rights condemns the Greek state for violating the property rights of the deposed monarch, Constantine of Greece, in connection with the confiscation of his property.
2003: Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze is retiring under pressure from opposition supporters “to prevent bloodshed in the country.”
Births
872 – Alexander, Byzantine Emperor
912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
1190 – Pope Clement IV
1221 – Alfonso I of Castile, King of Castile
1496 – Clement Maro, French poet
1542 – Akbar the Great, emperor of the Mongols
1760 – François-Noel Babboff, French journalist and activist
1804 – Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States
1837 – Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist
1838 – Stefanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician.
1847 – Charles Renard, French engineer
1881 – Ismail Ember, Ottoman soldier
1883 – José Clemente Orosco, Mexican painter.
1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor.
1916 – Leonidas Veliaroutis, Greek writer.
1922 – Manuel Fraga Irivarne, Spanish politician
1926 – Satya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1931 – Toshiguo Nakayama, President of Micronesia
1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist
1943 – Denny Sassu Nguesso, Congolese politician
1946 – George Koudas, Greek soccer player
1949 – Alkis Alkaios, Greek poet and lyricist
1950 – Stavros Sarafis, Greek soccer player
1951 – Mike Galakos, Greek footballer
1954 – Ross Brown, English engineer, leads Formula 1 teams
1962 – Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela
1966 – Bensan Kassel, French actor.
1979 – Kelly Brook, actress and model from England.
1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican athlete
1983 – Pantelis Pantelidis, Greek singer
1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer and actress
Deceased
955 – Etred, King of England
1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orleans
1503 – Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy
1572 – Aniolo Broncino, Italian painter
1604 – Francisco Barroco, Italian mathematician and astronomer
1682 – Claude Lorraine, French painter
1719 – John Mavrokordatos, Prince of Wallachia
1769: Constantine Mavrokordatos, prince of Wallachia and Moldavia.
1844 – Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer.
1890 – William III, King of the Netherlands
1901 – Giannis Kampysis, Greek writer
1919 – Henry Gadd, American engineer
1938 – Edward Engel, German linguist
1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower
1976 – Andre Malraux, French writer and politician
1980 – Iakovos Koumis, Cypriot wrestler
1983 – Aris Vlachopoulos, Greek actor.
1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh writer
1998 – Dan Ozman, American climber
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy
2006 – Philippe Noire, French actor
2010 – Christos Mavrommatis, Greek politician
2015 – Pierre Bernard, French graphic designer
2016 – Rita Barvera, Spanish politician
2019 – Katina Farasopoulou, Greek singer
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