See the most important events that happened today, in Greece and in the world
Facts
1678: Venetian mathematician, Elena Cornaro Piskopia, becomes the first woman to receive a Ph.D.
1925: General Theodoros Pangalos dissolves the parliament and declares his short-lived dictatorship.
1936: Our national basketball team plays its first international game, against Turkey. They will be defeated 49-12.
1940: World War II: Adolf Hitler is shown around Paris.
1941: World War II: The Italian flag is raised on the Acropolis, next to the German and Greek flags. Italians lay wreaths at the monument to the Unknown Soldier.
1942: World War II: Lt. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower assumes command of US forces in Europe, based in London.
1949: The prefecture and metropolis of Piraeus and the islands is founded.
1950: The United Nations reprimands North Korea and calls for a ceasefire in areas south of the 38th parallel.
1951: CBS makes its first color telecast.
1967: The Beatles’ smash hit ‘All You Need Is Love’ is heard for the first time, at the launch of the BBC satellite programme.
1975: Mozambique gains its independence, after 470 years of Portuguese rule. Marxist Samora Machel takes power.
1982: Haircut with short hair is abolished in the Greek army. Recruits are now allowed to have hair up to 4 points (4 cm).
1991: Yugoslavia breaks up. Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence.
1993: Kim Campbell becomes Canada’s first female prime minister.
2004:Euro 2004: The Greek national football team, performing a great performance against the French European Champions until then, achieves a historic 1-0 victory with a goal by Angelos Charisteas. Greece is in the “4” of Europe.
Births
On this day in 1852, the famous Catalan architect, Antonio Gaudi, who decorated Barcelona with his creations, was born in 1903, the English writer, George Orwell, (“Animal Farm”, “1984”) and in 1963, the British pop singer, of Cypriot origin, George Michael, born Giorgos Kyriakos Panagiotou.
Deaths
On this day, in 1822, the German storyteller E.T.A. died. Hoffman (“The Nutcracker”), in 1984 the French philosopher Michel Foucault, in 1997 the French oceanographer and explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and in 2009 the American singer Michael Jackson.
Source: Skai
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