Facts

1879: Thomas Edison publicly demonstrates the incandescent light bulb for the first time.

1944: The 22-year-old student of the Polytechnic Iannis Xenakis is injured by a mortar fragment in the face during the December. The later great composer belonged to the “Lord Byron” company of EPON.

1989: The private TV station ANT1 starts its broadcasts.

1999: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin temporarily takes over the country’s presidency after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin.

2009: The number of dead illegal immigrants who “washed up” in the Thracian sea reaches 21. The unfortunate illegal immigrants were on board a boat, which capsized in the Thracian sea due to strong north winds. The bodies were found at Delfini beaches in Alexandroupoli and Mangana in Avdira, Rodopi.

2010: Vangelis Marinakis is officially the new president of Olympiakos, after the completion of the General Assembly, where the handover – acceptance by Sokratis Kokkalis takes place.

Births

1514: Andreas Vesalios, Belgian physician, forerunner of modern anatomy. In 1543 he published the first scientific book of anatomy with the title: “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” ​​(“On the construction of the human body”). (D. 15/10/1564)

1909: Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter. (D. 20/7/1989)

1923: Yannis Dalianidis, Greek director. (Thu. 16/10/2010)

1931: Kostas Voutsas, a popular comedian with an artistic career spanning more than 70 years. With his exuberant and bryozo performance, he created a special type of comic actor that was loved by the Greek public. (Thu. 26/2/2020)

Deaths

1905: Alexander Popov, Russian physicist, one of the pioneers of radio. (Born 4/3/1859)

1980: Marshall McLewan, Canadian educator and sociologist, one of the first to understand the decisive effects of technology on the mass media and on the shaping of modern society more broadly. In his works he pointed out the influence of the mass media on the formation of modern man (“The medium is the message”). (Born 21/7/1911)

1988: Nikolas Kalas, philological pseudonym of Nikolaos Kalamaris, Greek poet and technical critic. He also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos and M. Spieros. (Born 27/5/1907)