10 events that happened like today, April 23

April 23, 1616: William Shakespeare died

The leading English poet and playwright was so skilled that he could create works for both comedy and drama.

He married Anne Hathaway, 9 years his senior. At their wedding, in 1582, she was already 3 months pregnant. Their first daughter was born six months after their wedding and two years later they had twins.

After devoting himself to his family for a decade, he lived alone for at least twenty years. Over the decades, he had illicit love affairs, fathered illegitimate children, whom he called godchildren. He returned to his family in 1613.

The romantic writer Shakespeare in his personal life was cynical. He abandoned his wife and children and called his illegitimate children “godchildren”.

April 23, 1827: George Karaiskakis was killed

The great commander-in-chief of the Greek Revolution operated mainly in the area of ​​Roumeli. They called him the “nun’s son”, because he was the “fruit” of the illicit love of the nun Zoi Dimiskis and Dimitris Karaiskos.

Known for his atherostomy, in 1823 he sent the following reply to Mahmut Pasha: “You write me a bouyurdi, you tell me to prostrate. And I, my pasha, asked my pujon himself and he answered me not to bow down to you and if you come against me, to fight right away.”

To this day, it remains unknown whether he was killed by a Greek or a Turk, on the day of his celebration. He was buried in Salamis and under Otho his bones were transferred to a monument in Neo Faliro by order of the king. But in some public works his bones were lost. Long live Greece!

The “Katerina’s Breeches”, which Karaiskakis wore on those soldiers he considered to have been cowards. Who pulled a gun on Karaiskakis, when he was faced with the “punishment”

April 23, 1905: Kostas Perrikos was born

Air Force officer and fighter of the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youth (P.E.A.N). He was sentenced to death for blowing up the offices of the Greek fascist organization ESPO, which was recruiting Greek Nazis to fight on the side of the Germans.

“I leave the world without hatred and malice. I fought for my country. Those who condemned me are also fighting for their own country. I would like my blood not to separate us, but to unite us, in the future, with the present opponents”, he had written in one of his last letters.

“I would like my blood not to separate us, but to unite us.” The execution of the aviator Kostas Perrikos who blew up the offices of the pro-Nazi organization ESPO in occupied Athens

April 23, 1916: Giannis Moralis was born

One of the most important painters of the 20th century, with many awards to his credit.

He had a decisive influence on post-war art in Greece, both with his works and with his teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts. He collaborated with the Art Theater of Karolos Koon and the National Theater and was engaged in scenography. He also undertook the decoration of the exterior walls of the NW and SE sides of the “Hilton” hotel in Athens.

April 23, 1928: Shirley Temple was born

He was one of the most popular child actors in Hollywood in the 1930s. Some of the films he appeared in were The Spearman Mascot, “The Wild Girl” and “The Little Princess”.

April 23, 1941: Ray Thomson was born

He was a computer programmer and is considered the “father” of e-mail. Initially, electronic mail could only be sent by those who had the same computer. Tomlinson’s “@” separated the user name from the computer name, making it possible to send e-mail to, from, and to any e-mail address.

How the first email was created and why the programmer who invented it chose π@π@κι, which has been a symbol on typewriters for over 100 years. When was the first spam sent?

April 23, 1998: Konstantinos Karamanlis died

He was prime minister, as the choice of the palace, with which he broke with.

He was the leader of the “National Radical Union” party. On December 9, 1963, he exiled himself to France, one month after the “Center Union” with Andreas Papandreou formed a government. Karamanlis left Panagiotis Kanellopoulos as his replacement.

He opposed the Coup d’etat of the Colonels. With the restoration of democracy, on July 24, 1974, he was sworn in as prime minister, legalized the KKE and granted amnesty. Although many military officials favored the Junta, it smoothly led the country to democratic transition.

The last days of the junta and the restoration of the Republic. The first post-colonial government abolished the Gyaros exile camp

April 23, 2005: First YouTube video uploaded

The first video uploaded to the audiovisual content platform was titled “Me at the zoo”. It featured then-25-year-old YouTube co-founder Joed Kerim in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California. Time magazine had called the platform the “Invention of 2005”. To date, the video has garnered over 316,000,000 views.

April 23, 2005: Romano Scarpa died

The Italian cartoonist is considered one of the most important and famous story designers of Walt Disney. His “weakness” was Mickey Mouse, who was also the protagonist of the majority of his stories. However, the designer created some of the most classic Donald Duck series. At the same time, he added new characters to the universe of Mickey City and Limnopolis.

Dali and Disney’s unknown animated film about unrequited love. It stayed in the “Disney” drawers for 58 years

April 23, 2010: George Papandreou announced from Kastellorizo ​​that Greece is entering a memorandum of understanding

In a speech, the prime minister announced that Greece will resort to a support mechanism from the IMF, the EU and the ECB. The harsh economic measures imposed caused a storm of public reaction, with self-proclaimed “Indignant” citizens holding mass demonstrations across Greece.

In 2012, the Samara-Venizelos government signed the second memorandum. During that period, there was an economic recession of 25% while the unemployment rate reached 27%.

In 2015, SYRIZA signed the third and final memorandum.