Facts

31 BC: Alexander the Great crushes the army of the Persian Darius III of Kodomanos, on the plain of Gaugamelos. With this victory, the great soldier completes the conquest of the Persian empire.

1873: The first daily newspaper in Greece under the title “The Ephemeris” and published by Dimitrios Koromilas is published.

1946: The judgment in the Nuremberg trial is issued. 12 of 22 prominent Nazis are sentenced to death as war criminals.

1960: Cyprus officially declares its independence from Great Britain. (National holiday)

1992: The American aircraft carrier “Saratoga” accidentally fires at the Turkish minesweeper “Moavanet”, with which it is participating in an exercise in the Aegean, as a result of which 5 Turkish sailors are killed.

2015: Our country has the most centralized education system in Europe, according to a European Union survey on the leadership and autonomy of schools. In the educational systems of the EU countries relatively large autonomy of school units is observed in matters of teaching methods, the choice of school textbooks or the choice of their students, with the “notable exception of Greece, where these issues are determined by the educational authorities.

Births

1541: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, Greek painter. (D. 7/4/1614)

1957 Stelios Mainas, Greek actor.

1969: Zach Galifianakis, American comedian, of Greek origin. Zacharias Galifianakis his Greek name.

Deaths

1974: Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, with a very important excavation project in Thira, Santorini. In 1929, he theorized that the end of the Minoan civilization in the Aegean came from the eruption of the Thera volcano (1600 BC). (Born 4/11/1901)

2004: Richard Avedon, American photographer, who became known mainly for his black and white photographs – portraits of famous Hollywood stars, as well as for shooting top models. (Born 15/5/1923)

2012 Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist intellectual, one of the leading historians of the 20th century. (Born 9/6/1917)