In 1924, Edgar Hoover became head of the FBI and in 1940, Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Today, May 10, 2023
1503… Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and names them Las Tortugas, because of the many sea turtles he sees.
1774…. Louis XVI becomes king of France.
1877…. Romania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1902…. Medical achievement in Athens. The surgeon, Spyridon Magginas, successfully removes his patient’s entire right kidney. This operation has a success rate abroad of only one in a thousand.
1908…. Mother’s Day is celebrated for the first time, in the USA, in West Virginia. It all started with Anna Reeves Jarvis who had lost her mother and wanted to designate a day dedicated to mothers.
1924….Edgar Hoover becomes head of the FBI.
1940… World War II: Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1947…. The Truman Plan is passed by the American parliament to provide financial aid to Greece.
1955…. The fixed fee is entered into the accounts of OTE, PPC and ULEN.
ULEN is the name of the American company that built the dam and the artificial lake of Marathon in Greece in the late 1920s and was synonymous with today’s EYDAP.
1981… Francois Mitterrand becomes France’s first socialist president. He is elected with 51.75% of the votes against 48.24% of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
1991…. Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, president of the National Center for Arts and Culture Georges Pompidou, is declared a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.
1994… Silvio Berlusconi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy for the first time.
He was born today:
– in 1878 the painter, Konstantinos Parthenis,
-in 1899 the American dancer and actor, Fred Astaire,
– in 1905 the rebetis, Markos Vamvakaris and
– in 1960 Bono Vox or Bono, stage name of Paul David Hewson, Irish singer of U2.
On the same day in 1774, the King of France, Louis XI died, and in 1977, the American actress, Joan Crawford.
Source: Skai
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