Like today, April 15, 1912the British ocean liner “TitanicĀ» (official name: RMS Titanic) sinks, after a terrible collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2,340 on board, 1,595 are lost in the icy waters.

The “Titanic” had started its first and last voyage a few days before, on Wednesday, April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to the USA with 922 passengers. At the port of Cherbourg, France and at Queenstown, Ireland, the rest of the “lucky” passengers were boarded and on April 11, 1912, the fateful journey to the USA began

Captained by Edward Smith, its passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and other regions throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in North America.

On April 14, 1912, she collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship time and the inflow of water and the evacuation with the lifeboats began.

Just before 2:20 A.M. the ship broke in two and began to sink, with more than a thousand people still on board, with the ocean liner sinking an hour and twenty minutes later.

During the sinking, the ship’s chimneys (fougara) became detached (possibly killing those near them.). One hour and twenty minutes after the Titanic sank, the Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Carpathia arrived at the site of the sinking, where it picked up 720 survivors.

The wreck of the Titanic remains at the bottom, broken in two, and gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 ft (3,784 m). Since its discovery in 1985, thousands of objects have been recovered and displayed in museums around the world

Facts

1825 Mehmet Resit Kutahi besieges Messolonghi, which will fall a year later with the heroic exodus.

1850 The naval blockade of Greek ports by the British is lifted, due to the Pacifico (Parkerika) affair.

1912: The “Titanic” sinks, after a terrible collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2,340 on board, 1,595 are lost in the icy waters.

The British ocean liner “Titanic” (official name: RMS Titanic) had started its first and last voyage a few days before, on Wednesday, April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to the USA with 922 passengers. At the port of Cherbourg, France and at Queenstown, Ireland, the rest of the “lucky” passengers were boarded and on April 11, 1912, the fateful journey to the USA began

Captained by Edward Smith, its passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and other regions throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in North America.

On April 14, 1912, she collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship time and the inflow of water and the evacuation with the lifeboats began.

Just before 2:20 A.M. the ship broke in two and began to sink, with more than a thousand people still on board, with the ocean liner sinking an hour and twenty minutes later.

1920: Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are accused of killing two employees during a robbery of a shoe store in Massachusetts. They will be executed 7 years later and will pass into the realm of legend.

1955: American player Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1986: America is bombing Libya, in retaliation for the explosion at the Labelle disco in Berlin, where an American citizen was among the victims, but also for the tactics of the Gaddafi government to finance and support Muslim terrorist organizations, which operate in various places of the world. The bombings in Tripoli and Benghazi kill 60 people. The Americans lose an F-111 fighter jet with its crew of two.

Births

1452 Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, inventor, visionary, the personification of the Renaissance man. Described parachute (1480), observed capillary phenomena (1490), designed flying machines (1494), bearings (1496), first gun (1500) and first helicopter (1500). He studied the anatomy of humans and animals, which he captured in detailed drawings – he also made important observations in the fields of geology (earth’s crust), paleontology (fossils) and botany. (D. 2/5/1519)

1489 Kotsa Mimar Sinan Aga, better known as Sinan, architect of Greek origin, the leader of the Ottoman Empire. (D. 17/7/1588)

1935 Stavros Paravas, Greek actor. (Than. 15/9/2008)

Deaths

1865 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA. (Born 12/2/1809)

1896 George Vizyinos, literary pseudonym of George Michaelides, Greek poet and prose writer. (Born 8/3/1849)

1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, who refused to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him in 1964. (Born 6/21/1905)