On this day – 1953: The first television demonstration in Greece takes place in a factory in Kallithea

Today – November 11, 2022

384…. Siricius ascends the papal throne. He is the one who will establish the term “papa”. The Roman Catholic Church honors him as a saint.

1215…. The 4th Lateran Council adopts the Doctrine of Transsubstantiation, according to which during the Holy Eucharist the Bread and Wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ.

1647….Massachusetts becomes the first territory of the later USA to establish compulsory schooling.

1790…. The English first import chrysanthemums from Japan.

1826…. The Greek Government moves its headquarters from Nafplio to Aegina.

1867…. The royal couple George I and Olga, after their weddings, arrive in Greece on the steamship “Mesolongion”.

1887…. Four anarchist activists who had been sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer during the Chicago riots of May 1886, which led to the establishment of May Day, were led to the gallows and executed while singing “Massaliotissa”.

1912…. The Assembly of Samos, chaired by Themistocles Sofoulis, declares the union with Greece.

…. On the same day, Kastoria is liberated from the Greek Army.

1918…. The Entente powers and Germany sign an armistice. In his personal wagon in the forest of Compiègne, the French marshal Ferdinand Fosse dictates to the German delegation the terms of the armistice, which ends the First World War. Officially, the war ended at 11:00, the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918.

…. On the same day, Emperor Charles I of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dethroned.

…. On the same day Poland declares its independence.

1919… Kemal Atatürk requests the declaration of war against Greece.

1938… Jews are forced by the Nazi regime in Germany to wear the Star of David on their lapels.

1940… World War II: The Italian fleet is engaged in Taranto, with the contribution of a Greek destroyer flotilla.

…. On the same day, the first jeep rolls off the production line. It is a US Army order and manufactured by Willis. It will make history in World War II.

1942… World War II: American forces under Dwight Eisenhower take control of French North Africa.

1944…. The new post-war drachma, equal to 50 billion old occupation drachmas, is put into circulation.

1947…. Iannis Xenakis, sentenced to death by the Greek state for his participation in ELAS, finds refuge in Paris.

1950…. A swarm of Greek warplanes departs for Korea, in order to take part in the Korean War, under the UN forces.

1951…. Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina for the sixth consecutive time.

1952… In Beverly Hills, California, inventors John Mullin and Wayne Johnson present the first video.

1953…. For the first time in the history of medicine, scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts have confidently identified and photographed the polio virus.

…. On the same day, the first television demonstration in Greece takes place in a factory in Kallithea. Television in Greece first started operating in 1960[1] with experimental broadcasts that were not made permanent, while the regular program started from a public EIR station and from an Armed Forces station in 1966. 1962…. Konstantinos Karamanlis inaugurates the Athens – Corinth National Highway.

1965…. Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) declares its independence from Great Britain.

1968….The Maldives islands in the Indian Ocean are declared a republic.

1972…. The Motor Oil refinery is inaugurated in Agioi Theodorou, Attica.

1975…. Angola declares its independence from Portugal.

1976… Diego Maradona scores the first two official goals of his career against San Lorenzo in Mar del Plata.

1993…. The ex-husband of Christina Onassis, Thierry Roussel, appeals to the Swiss courts, asking to be recognized as the sole administrator and beneficiary of the inheritance of his daughter Athena, until she comes of age.

2000…. 160 people are killed in the Alps when the cog railway catches fire while passing through a tunnel.

2002…. The Annan plan for the resolution of the Cyprus issue, drawn up by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is handed over to the Republic of Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriot side and the guarantor powers Greece, Turkey and Britain. Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis and Cypriot President Glaukos Cleridis state that “the plan is negotiable”.

2007…. Internal party elections in PASOK. The three candidates for the presidency are George Papandreou, Evangelos Venizelos and Kostas Skandalidis. George Papandreou is re-elected with 55% against Evangelos Venizelos’ 38%.

On this day in 1821 the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born, in 1945 the Nicaraguan politician and president of the country, Daniel Ortega, in 1907 the poet, screenwriter and director Orestes Laskos, in 1928 the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, in 1962 the American actress, Demi Moore and in 1974 the American actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. On the same day in 1990, the great poet Yiannis Ritsos and the actor and theater director Alexis Minotis passed away, in 2004 the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, and in 2010, the mogul of Italian cinema, Dino de Laurentiis.

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