Facts

1821: The Greek revolutionaries occupy Kalamata. On the same day, the Messinian Senate issues the “warning to the European courts”, announcing the uprising of the Greek nation.

1821: Patriarch Gregory V excommunicates Alexander Ypsilantis, who revolted Moldowallachia.

1839: The word OK is recorded for the first time. It is said that it comes from the Greek phrase “Ola Kala” that the immigrant ancestors, who worked in the port, wrote on the boxes with the goods. However, the newspaper of the time “Boston Morning Post” writes that the term comes from the misspelling “Oll Korrect” (instead of the correct All Correct). He is probably right, since 1839 was not the time of migration to the new world for the Greeks.

1919: The socialist Benito Mussolini founds in Milan a fascist movement called “I Fasci Italiani del Combattimento” (Italian Fighting Bands). His companions, the union leaders Agostino Landsillo and Michele Bianchi.

1992: The fiasco of Louise Riancourt. The Greek Police “touches” on “November 17”, but eventually loses it.

Births

1869: Call Gulbekian, an Armenian oil businessman and philanthropist, also known as “Mr. 5%” because he always held 5% of the shares in the companies he was involved with. (D. 20/7/1955)

1915: Vasily Zaitsev, Russian military, perhaps the most famous sniper. (D. 15/12/1991)

1937: Robert Gallo, American medical researcher, who together with Lick Montagnier in 1984 discovered the HIV virus, responsible for AIDS.

Deaths

1842: Marie-Henri Bayle, better known as Stendhal, French writer. (“The Black and the Red”, “The Monastery of Parma”) (Born 23/1/1783)

1992: Friedrich Hague, Austrian economist and philosopher, one of the gurus of neoliberalism, Nobel laureate in 1974. (Born 8/5/1899)

2001: David McTaggart, Canadian activist, founder of the international environmental organization Greenpeace. (Born 6/24/1932)