Facts

1821:Captain Nikolaos Papadopoulos Sklavos from Kefallonia collects in the sea area of ​​Constantinople the body of the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V, who was hanged by order of the Sultan on April 10, 1821, as a reprisal for the uprising of the Greeks.

1895: Elections are held in Greece, with the populist Theodoros Diligiannis the winner. The modernizer Charilaos Trikoupis is defeated state by state (he is not even elected MP) and leaves politics.

1896: The famous statue of Heniochus is discovered in Delphi.

1902: Dozens of people are injured by Easter firecrackers in Greece.

1924:Greece, participating in the celebration of the centenary of the death of Lord Byron, decides to give the name “Byron” to the refugee settlement located near Pagrati.

2015: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is included in TIME’s list of the 100 most influential people on the planet for 2015.

Births

1888: Michalis Dorizas, Greek thrower, second Olympic champion in 1908 in javelin. (D. 21/10/1957)

1889: Charlie Chaplin, English actor. (Charlotte) (D. 25/12/1977)

1940: Fotis Kafatos, Greek biologist with international fame. He is considered the father of molecular biology in Greece. (Thu. 18/11/2017)

Deaths

1828: Francisco José de Goya Y Luthientes, better known as Goya, Spanish painter. (Born 30/3/1746)

1996: Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipowner and businessman, one of the richest people in the world. (Born 3/7/1909)

2008: Edward Lorenz, American meteorologist, who developed ‘chaos theory’ and coined the term ‘butterfly syndrome’. (Born 23/5/1917)