Facts:

1897: A squad assembled by the local sheriff opens fire and kills 19 migrant miners protesting working conditions at the Calvin Pardee Mines in Latimer, Pennsylvania. (“Latimer Massacre”)

1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, better known as Sissi, is assassinated in Geneva by the anarchist Luigi Luceni.

1919: The Treaty of Saint Germain (Saint Germain) is signed between the victors of World War I and the newly established Republic of Austria, ending the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The treaty recognizes the independence of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

1960: Legendary Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila wins the gold medal at the Rome Olympics, running barefoot.

1981: Pablo Picasso’s infamous painting Guernica, painted in 1937, returns to Spain. From 1939 he was in New York.

1982: Javelin thrower Anna Veroulis takes first place at the Pan-European Athletics Games in Athens, with a throw of 70.02m. It is the first gold medal for Greece in the history of the institution, which began in 1934. In the same event, Sofia Sakorafa is ranked third and takes the bronze.

1991:Nirvana release their smash hit ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

1995: The film by Theodoros Angelopoulos “The look of Odysseus”, which won the grand prize of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival, is being shown in Greek cinemas.

2003: An unknown person stabs Sweden’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, multiple times while she is shopping in a department store in Stockholm. She would succumb to her injuries the next day.

2009: “There is money” says the leader of PASOK, Giorgos Papandreou, in his pre-election speech, and announces increases above inflation if he wins the elections.

Births

1927: Gerasimos Sklavos, Greek sculptor. (D. 28/1/1967)

1933: Karl Lagerfeld, German couturier. (Thu. 19/2/2019)

1956 Yannis Bezos, Greek actor

1968: Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter and producer, ex-husband of Madonna

Deaths

1827: Ugo Foscolo, (Ugos Foskolos), Italian poet of Greek origin. (Born 6/2/1778)

1976: Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter, novelist and director, one of the ten “blackboarded” of Hollywood. (“Johnny Got His Gun”) (Born 9/12/1905)

2010: Gisela Dali, stage name of Adamantia Mavroides, Greek actress. (Born 8/27/1937)