Read the most important events that happened today, February 11
Facts
1825 Ibrahim, at the head of 4,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry, disembarks at Methoni and the next day moves towards Pylos. Great danger for the Greek Revolution.
1934 Athenian voters of 1934 support the Prime Minister, Panagi Tsaldari.
The municipal elections in Greece are being held in a climate of political tension, with intense confrontation between the candidates of the governing faction and the opposition. The winner is the government and anti-Venezuelan candidate, Konstantinos Kotzias. Sotirios Stratigis is elected Mayor of Piraeus. In Kavala, the first communist mayor, 29-year-old Dimitrios Partsalides, is elected. These are also the first elections in Greece in which women take part.
[1945American President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin divide the world into spheres of influence by signing the Yalta Treaty.
1959 The agreement on Cyprus is signed in Zurich by the Prime Minister of Greece Konstantinos Karamanlis and his Turkish counterpart Adnan Menderes. On February 19, 1959 the agreement will be signed by all interested parties in London (Britain, Greece, Turkey and the two communities of Cyprus).
1959 The trial of German war criminal Max Merten begins in Athens. (Merten case)
1978 China’s government lifts ban on books by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Dickens.
Births
1776 Ioannis Kapodistrias, first governor of Greece. (D. 27/9/1831)
1847 Thomas Edison, American entrepreneur and inventor, with 1,093 patents to his credit. Among other things, he invented the electric light bulb, the gramophone and the telegraph. (D. 18/10/1931)
1969 Jennifer Aniston, American actress, of Greek descent on her father’s side. She gained worldwide fame from her starring role in the popular TV sitcom Friends (1994–2004), but also from her first marriage to Brad Pitt.
Deaths
641 Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium. (Gen. 575)
1650 René Descartes, better known in Greece as Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician. He also went down in history for saying “I think, therefore I am”. (Born 31/3/1596)
1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director. (“Battleship Potemkin”) (Born 1/23/1898)
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