1528: The first Greek to set foot in America is a certain Theodoros, who lands in the area of ​​Florida. A statue has been erected in his honor in Clearwater, Florida.

1821: Battle of Levidi. The Greek revolutionaries defeat the Turks. The heroic resistance of Reader Striftombolas and his lads, who are fortified inside the houses, allows time for reinforcements under Dimitrios Plapoutas and Stavros Dimitrakopoulos to arrive, so that the siege can be lifted.

1837: The University of Athens is founded by a royal decree of Otto, which will receive the name Othonian University.

1941: The Reform Party of the Working People (AKEL) is founded in Nicosia by progressive bourgeois politicians and communists.

1986: A hundred American bombers are pounding areas of Libya from the air, for more than an hour. As the US announces, this is in retaliation for the Gaddafi government’s tactics of financing and supporting Muslim terrorist organizations, which operate in various parts of the world.

2016: The number of tourists who visited Greece in 2015 exceeded 26 million, marking an increase of 5.6% compared to 2014. According to the final data of the Bank of Greece, revenues reached 14.1 billion euros ( +5.5% compared to 2014).

Births

1936: Frank Serpico, legendary New York cop, first to testify against police corruption. His story was made into a movie by Sidney Lumet, with music by Mikis Theodorakis, with Al Pacino in the role of Serpico.

1942: Valery Brummel, Russian high jumper, who broke the world record 6 times and won a gold and a silver medal at the Olympics. (Dec. 26/1/2003)

[1945:Richie Blackmore, English guitarist of Deep Purple.

Deaths

1891: Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, Greek historian, the father of Greek historiography. (Born 1815)

1930: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet. (Born 7/7/1893)

1986:Simon de Beauvoir, French feminist, writer and wife of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. (“The Second Sex”) (Born 9/1/1908)