Facts

1830: The London Protocols are signed by the three Great Powers (England, France, Russia), which provide for the creation of an independent Greek State with an HIV-positive line to the west of the Acheloos river and to the north of Mount Oitis. It is also stipulated that the regime of the new state will be hereditary monarchy, while the Crown of the state was offered to Prince Leopold of the German state of Saxe-Coburg, who, however, refused to ascend the Greek throne. With another provision, there is talk of the freedom to practice the worship of the Catholic religion and the legal and real guarantee of the hierarchal authority of the Catholic hierarchs in their existing Archbishoprics and Dioceses. It is the first minority commitment undertaken by the newly established Greek state.

1908: George Kalafatis founds the Athens Football Club (POA), later Panathinaikos.

1959:Three of the pioneers of rock and roll, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and Giles “Big Bopper” Richardson, are killed in a plane crash in Iowa, USA. The event will go down in history as “The Day the Music Died”.

1966: The unmanned Soviet spacecraft “Luna 9” lands on the moon. It is the first smooth landing on the Moon, which paved the way for American manned flights.

1991: The historic and influential Communist Party of Italy (PCI), founded in 1921 by Antonio Gramsci, splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Party of Communist Re-establishment.

2006:The mysterious death of a Vodafone executive is revealed and gives thriller dimensions to the much-vaunted wiretapping case. This is the suicide, according to the authorities, of Kostas Tsalikidis, an executive in the security of the company’s software, which was committed two days after the internal discovery of the wiretapping and the strange deletion of the software by order of the company’s managing director, George Koronias.

Births

1791: Alexandros Mavrokordatos, ’21 campaigner and politician. (D. 6/8/1865)

1877: Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist, poet and short story writer, one of the important representatives of modern Greek letters. They described him as “the prince of modern Greek speech”. (D. 1/2/1940)

1933: Paul Sarbanis, former US senator of Greek origin. (Thu. 6/12/2020)

Deaths

1468: Johannes Gutenberg, known in Greece as John Gutenberg, German inventor of printing. (Gen. 1398)

1989: John Cassavetes, Greek-American director and actor. (Born 9/12/1929)

2004: Zisimos Lorentzatos, Greek poet and essayist. (Born 6/25/1915)