On this day, in 2013, Nelson Mandela died

On this day, December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the fighter of the anti-Apartheid movement and the first black president of South Africa, died

63 BC…. Cicero delivers his last speech against Catiline to the Roman Senate.

771… Charlemagne becomes king of the Franks, after the death of his brother Charlemagne.

1360… For the first time in France, a currency called the franc is issued. It will remain in circulation until the introduction of the euro in 2002.

1403…. The Mongols, under Tamerlane, defeat the Ottoman Turks and occupy Smyrna.

1456…. A powerful earthquake hits central Italy, killing 35,000 people.

1484…. Pope Innocent VIII issues a Papal Bull that establishes the Inquisition and condemns thousands of people to the stake on the charge of witchcraft.

1492… Christopher Columbus discovers a large island in the Caribbean, which he names Hispaniola. Today there are two states on the island, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

1766… ​​Christie’s London auction house (by James Christie) holds its first auction.

1792…. George Washington is re-elected president of the USA.

1804…. Thomas Jefferson is re-elected president of the USA.

1831… The 5th National Assembly begins in Argos to vote on a new Constitution, after the assassination of Ioannis Kapodistrias.

1920… (n. d.) A referendum is held by the government of Dimitrios Ralli for the return of King Constantine I and his restoration to the throne.

1933… Prohibition in the USA, which had been imposed in 1920, is abolished.

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1950…. A scandal in the Keratea Monastery comes to light, when during the intervention of the police and the prosecutor, many rich old women, who were kept in bad conditions together with 36 boys and girls, are released. The monastery sought the appropriation of foreign property.

1955…. The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins, partly engineered by Martin Luther King Jr. as a protest against racial discrimination. The occasion was the arrest of Rosa Parks, secretary of the NAACP, when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

1969… For the first time in Greece, a pacemaker device is implanted in a patient’s heart.

1981…. The Greek government decides to abolish article 357 of the Penal Code, which provides a prison sentence for adultery.

1990… Premiere of OPAP’s new game, Lotto.

1993… In Venezuela, the people elect Rafael Caldera as president, for the second time in 25 years.

2001…. The Bonn Agreement is signed. Warring Afghan forces agree that Hamid Karzai will lead the new government that emerges after the fall of the Taliban regime.

…. On the same day, the president of Cyprus, Glaukos Clerides, responding to an invitation of the leader of the Turkish Cypriots, Rauf Denktas, attends a dinner at the latter’s home, in the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Cleridis passes through the Ledra Palace roadblock in occupied Nicosia for the first time since 1974.

2003… At least 46 people are killed and 160 injured in a suicide attack by Chechen separatists on a train in southern Russia full of workers going to work.

On this day in 1901 the American cartoonist, creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Walt Disney, was born, in 1925 the former president of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, in 1934 the actor and director of the National Theater, Nikos Kourkoulos and in 1946 the Spanish tenor , Jose Carreras.

On the same day in 1791 the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died, in 1870 the French writer Alexandre Dumas the father (“The Three Musketeers”, “The Count of Montechristo”) and in 1926 the French painter Claude Monet, one of most important representatives of the impressionism movement.

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