Today, September 22, 2023

480 BC….. The Battle of Salamis: (according to one version it took place on September 22. Other sources state that it took place on September 28 or 29 (21-22 Boedromion) of 480 BC) The Greek fleet under Themistocles and Eurybiades engages the Persian fleet in the straits of Salamis . The leader of the Persians, Xerxes, watches the tragedy of his navy from Mount Aegaleus.

1792…. The new revolutionary calendar comes into effect in France (year I in 1793). The abolition of the monarchy is declared the zero point of time. The beginning of the revolutionary calendar is now September 22, 1792, the day of the autumnal equinox, and the years are henceforth counted in Latin numbers as revolutionary year I, II, etc.

1902… In Russia, Czar Nicholas II, by decree, abolishes the nominal autonomy of Finland, in which he installs a Russian governor-general.

1908… Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, under whose rule it remained for five centuries.

1921….Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are admitted to the League of Nations.

1924…. The Bavarian police ask the Minister of the Interior for the second time to deport the leader of the National Socialist Front, Adolf Hitler, who has been convicted and imprisoned for an attempted coup. Minister Franz Girtner rejects the request.

1955…. Television is a fact in Britain. ITV (Independent Television) becomes the first commercial channel in the country.

1960…. Mali becomes independent from France.

1961…. A caretaker government is formed in Greece, with the “court” General, Konstantinos Dovas, as prime minister, after the resignation of Konstantinos Karamanlis 2 days earlier.

1965… The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends, with the cease-fire declared by the UN.

1968…. The Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) is founded. The first issue of the journalistic organ of the KNE, with the title “Guide”, is being circulated illegally.

1971… The funeral of the Nobel laureate poet Giorgos Seferis develops into a demonstration against the junta. In the funeral procession to the first cemetery in front of Hadrian’s Gate, the crowd stops the traffic and starts singing the (forbidden) song of Mikis Theodorakis – in lyrics by Seferis “Sto perigiali to kyplos”.

1975… In the USA, in San Francisco, California, Sarah Jane Moore tries to assassinate the American president, Gerald Ford. The bullet will not find its target and the perpetrator will be sentenced to life imprisonment.

1976… In Greece, health booklets for children are established.

1980… Beginning of the Iran-Iraq eight-year war. Iraq invades Iran simultaneously by land and air.

1996… Parliamentary elections in Greece. PASOK emerged as the first party and remains in power with 41.4% and 162 seats, compared to 38.1% for ND and 108 seats. They are followed by the KKE with 5.6%, Synaspsimos with 5.1% and DIKKI with 4.4%. Political Spring is left out of Parliament with 2.9%. The president of ND, Miltiadis Evert, resigns.

2000….Victoras Mitrou wins the silver medal at the Sydney Olympic Games in the 77 kg category of weightlifting lifting 165 kg in deadlift, 165 in deadlift and 367.5 in total.

Birthday

On this day in 1953, the French politician, Ségolène Royal, was born in 1958, the Italian tenor, singer and musician, Andrea Bocelli, and in 1977, the Brazilian football ace, Ronaldo, known as Luis Nazario Da Lima.

Deaths

On the same day in 1828, the king of the Zulu, Saka, who from a tribe made them a nation within the context of South Africa, died in 1952, the journalist and writer, Timos Moraitinis and in 1991, the poet and writer, Yiannis Negrepontis.