Today, May 15, 2023

44 BC….. Roman senators, led by Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassinate Julius Caesar with 23 knives, on the Field of Mars, inside the Parliament. When Caesar sees among the murderers his adopted son Brutus, who loved him especially, he exclaims in Greek: “And you, son of Brutus?”

1866…. With a secret memorandum to the great powers, the Cretans appeal for union with Greece.

1905… Las Vegas is founded in Nevada ((Sin City)which will develop into a gambling capital.

Las Vegas means “the fields, the meadows” in Spanish and was named so because the area – a verdant valley in the middle of the Mojave Desert – was first settled by Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in 1829.

1911… The new battleship “Averof” is delivered to Greece.

1918…. The US Postal Service begins the first letter transfers by air, between New York, Philadelphia and Washington.

1924…. Panathinaikos changes its name from PPAO (Panhellenic Football Athletic Club) to PAO (Panathinaikos Athletic Club) in a general assembly at the initiative of Georgios Kalafatis. This name prevails to this day.

1928…. Mickey Mouse the famous Disney mouse, together with his… fiancee Minnie, makes his debut on the big screen, with the Disney / IWorks film “Plain Crazy”.

1940… World War II: The Dutch army surrenders to the Nazis.

1943… Joseph Stalin dissolves the Communist International, known as the Comintern, founded in 1919 by Lenin. With this measure he attempts to calm the concerns of his Western allies about a world communist revolution and to promote in the USSR the idea of ​​a “great war” for the homeland.

1948….Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Transjordan attack Israel.

1952… The School of Dentistry is founded at the University of Athens, despite the objections of the professors of medicine.

1988…. The Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan, after more than eight years of war.

1993….Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly reject the peace plan of mediators Vance and Owen, according to which they would have to surrender about 70% of the territory they controlled.

Like today in 1567 he was born the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, (“Orpheus”), in 1773 Prince Clemens von Metternich, Austrian politician and diplomat, and in 1859 the French physicist, Pierre Curie, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903.

On the same day in 1886 passed away the American poet, Emily Dickinson and in 1967 the American painter, Edward Hopper, who depicted in his paintings the loneliness of modern man.