Facts

585 BC: Thales of Miletus records for the first time in the world a solar eclipse.

1871: The Paris Commune collapses.

1952: A law is passed by the Parliament to grant full political rights to Greek women.

1961: Amnesty International is founded. For her contribution to the protection of human rights, she will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 16 years later.

1997: The terrorist organization “17 November” murders the shipowner Kostas Peratikos in Piraeus.

2009: AC/DC are visiting Greece for the first and only time, as part of their world tour under the title “Black Ice Tour”. Their concert takes place in the packed Olympic Stadium.

Births

1888: Jimmy Thorpe, Indian track and field athlete. At the 1912 Olympics he won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, but these were taken away because he played professional boxing and returned to him posthumously in 1982. (D. 28/3/1953)

1908: Ian Fleming, English journalist, author and intelligence officer, who wrote a series of novels featuring James Bond. (D. 12/8/1964)

1968 Kylie Minogue, Australian singer.

Deaths

1924: Ioannis Polemis, Greek poet and playwright. (Born 1862)

1967: The chief fireman Nikolaos Bakaloumas lost his life, after an explosion in the engine room of a ship, in which a fire had broken out, in a shipyard in Rhodes.

2003: Ilya Prigozhin, Russian chemist, with important work in the field of thermodynamics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his theory of the creation of structures from states of non-thermodynamic equilibrium. Pioneer of modern chaos and complexity theory. (Born 25/1/1917)

2014: Maya Angelou, American poet and activist. (Born 4/4/1928)