Facts:

1944: Andreas Empirikos is arrested at his home by OPLA and passes a popular court in Peristeri. ELAS takes him hostage, but he escapes somewhere in Thebes. He returns to Athens, barefoot, with wounds and frostbite on his feet, terribly exhausted.

1963: On the recommendation of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, Parliament is dissolved and elections are announced for February 16, 1964. The mandate to form a caretaker government is assigned to Ioannis Paraskevopoulos.

1963: The Green Line is drawn in Nicosia. Six Turkish Cypriot enclaves on the megalopolis, after the bi-communal riots.

1966: The decision is issued for the murder of the MP Grigoris Lambrakis. Spyros Gotzamanis (11 years), Emmanouil Emmanoulidis (8.5 years) and 8 other people (sentences of less than a year) are sentenced for fatal bodily harm – aiding and abetting.

1970: Paul McCartney is suing him to break up the Beatles.

1975: The Polytechnic Trial ends. Ioannidis, Varnavas and Dertilis are sentenced to life imprisonment. 17 defendants are sentenced to imprisonment and prison terms, among them the dictator George Papadopoulos. 13 are acquitted.

Births

1865: Rudyard Kipling, English writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 “for the power of observation, the originality of imagination, the masculinity of ideas and the remarkable narrative talent that characterize the creations of this world-renowned writer. (D. 18/1/1936)

1937: Gordon Banks, English goalkeeper, one of the best in world football. (Thu. 12/2/2019)

1957
Nikos Portokaloglou
Nikos Portokaloglou, Greek songwriter.

Deaths

1979: Richard Rogers, American composer, member of the famous composition duo Rogers & Hammerstein who wrote history in the musical. (Born 6/28/1902)

2003: Anita Mui, the so-called “Madonna of Asia”, Chinese pop singer. (Born 10/10/1963)

2006:Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, when he was overthrown by the Americans. (Born 28/4/1937)