In 1916 Rasputin is assassinated, in 1955 Barbra Streisand makes her first recording and in 1995, in the Crisis of the Imian, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues a verbal communication to the corresponding Greek
As of today – December 29, 2022
1835…. The first decision is taken on the functioning of the municipal authority of Piraeus.
1837…. The first steam-powered threshing machine receives a patent in America.
1845…. Texas becomes the 28th US State.
1862…. The only ball with holes, the bowling ball, is patented.
1890…. In the last major battle between Indians and American forces, the 7th US Cavalry kills 400 men and women and children at Wooded Knee Creek.
1891…. Thomas Edison gets a patent for the wireless radio.
1901… Moliere’s comedy “The Librarian” is staged for the first time in Greece, at the Royal Theatre.
1911…. Turkestan and Mongolia declare their independence from China
1916… The monk Gregory Rasputin, who had enormous influence in the tsarist court and specifically on Tsarina Alexandra, is murdered by two Russian nobles in St. Petersburg.
1924… By decree, the institution of the City Police in Athens, which had started in Corfu, came into force on January 15, 1925.
1940… World War II: The German Luftwaffe drops 10,000 bombs on London in one of the most nightmarish nights for the British capital. 3,000 civilians are killed.
1944… World War II: The Battle of Budapest: The siege of the city begins as the Red Army and the Romanian Army surround German and Hungarian forces. It will end on February 13, 1945 with the unconditional surrender of the city to the Soviets.
1951…. The US Atomic Energy Commission announces that it has begun producing electricity using atomic energy.
1953… The kilo instead of the ounce and the meter instead of the cubit are established in Greece.
1955… Barbra Streisand makes her first recording at just 13 years old.
1964…. After 19 months of investigations, the Athens Criminal Council indicts Gotzamanis and Emmanoulidis for the murder of Grigoris Lambrakis with the charge of intentional homicide and Yosmas and Kapelonis for moral turpitude. Gendarmerie officers are cited for dereliction of duty.
1987….Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko breaks the record for continuous stay in space with 326 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes when his spaceship touches down.
1989… Playwright and freedom and democracy activist Vaclav Havel is sworn in as Czechoslovakia’s first democratically elected, non-communist President.
1991… CNN founder Ted Turner is named TIME Magazine’s Man of the Year.
1995… Crisis of Imia: The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes advantage of the situation and delivers a verbal communication in the corresponding Greek, in which it is stated that the islets of Imia have been registered in the Mugla land register of the Bodrum (Halicarnassus) prefecture and belong to Turkey.
1997…. 1.4 million chickens are slaughtered in Hong Kong, after 4 people die from bird flu.
2001… Glaukos Cleridis repays Rauf Denktash with the dinner of December 5, hosting the Turkish Cypriot leader at his home in Nicosia.
2007…. The police arrest eight people, during a major operation in Zoniana and Fodele, Heraklion, for ATM robberies and remittances.
2008…. Stalin is voted the third most popular historical figure in Russia. First Alexander Nevsky and second Pyotr Stolypin.
2013… Michael Schumacher suffers a serious head injury while skiing in the French Alps
He was born on this day in 1721 Jean Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, official mistress of King Louis XI, highly influential in the political affairs of the time, 1800 American inventor of the tire, Charles Goodyear, 1808 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, 1809 the British prime minister and Philhellenic, William Gladstone, known to the Greeks as Gladstone, in 1876 the Catalan cello virtuoso, Pablo Casals, in 1938 the American actor, Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, in 1946 the British singer, Marian Faithful, the 1960 the actress, Katerina Didaskalou and in 1972 the British actor, Jude Law.
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