Facts

1669: Etna erupts, killing 15,000 people.

1822: Lykourgos Logothetis with 2,500 Samians and Bournias with 150 Chios who were in Samos, land in Chios and besiege the Turkish garrison inside the fortress.

1941: Forces of the 1st Division repulse a strong Italian attack in the area of ​​Trebesina (elevation 731) and capture 501 prisoners, including 23 officers.

1978: A bomb explodes in the “Elli” cinema on Akadimias Street, during the screening of the Soviet film “Rainbow” by director Mark Donskoi. 18 spectators are injured, three of them very seriously. The terrorist act is attributed to the extreme right.

1991: The trial for the Bank of Crete scandal begins at the Special Court. The main defendants are Andreas Papandreou who is not present and Menios Koutsoiorgas, Dimitris Tsovolas and Giorgos Petsos.

2011: 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan, the largest in the last 140 years, accompanied by a 10 meter tsunami. 15,894 dead, 6,152 wounded and 2,562 missing. Explosion and radioactive leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the second worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl in 1986.

Births

1921: Astor Piazzola, Argentinian composer of the artistic tango and virtuoso of the bandoneon. (D. 4/7/1992)

1922: Cornelius Kastoriadis, Greek philosopher, who accepted Marx and rejected Marxism. (D. 26/12/1997)

1926: Thomas Starzl, American doctor and researcher, who performed the first liver transplant. (Thu. 4/3/2017)

Deaths

1949: Anastasios Charalambis, Greek military officer and prime minister for a day. (Born 9/22/1862)

1955: Alexander Fleming, Scottish physician and researcher, who discovered penicillin. For his success, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. (Born 6/8/1881)

1978: Sofia Vembo, Greek singer and actress. (Born 10/2/1910)