1599 English Revolutionary leader and protector of England Oliver Cromwell is born
1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, creator of the temperature measurement scale that bears his name, has died
1719 Robinson Crusoe gets “flesh and bones” through the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe.
1792 Traveler robber Nicolas Pelletier is the first person in the US to be executed by guillotine.
1792 French composer and poet Roger Delil composes “Massaliotide”, the anthem of the French bourgeois Revolution, a song that spread the spirit of the Revolution throughout the world. Later, “Massaliotida” became the national anthem of France.
1840 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (“The Nutcracker”, “Swan Lake”) is born
1850 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuters news agency, uses 40 pigeons to convey the closing prices of the stock market to his clients.
1859 Official permission is given for the opening of the Suez Canal.
1874 The Italian inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, was born
1915 New Zealand and Australian forces attempt to land on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli, in the context of the First World War. About 7,000 Australians and 2,000 New Zealanders were killed during the eight-month conflict.
1917 Ella Fitzgerald was born (Ella Fitzgerald – died June 15, 1996) American jazz singer. During her career, which spanned nearly six decades, she gained worldwide fame and international recognition, standing out thanks to her special vocal abilities. He won 14 Grammy Awards and received numerous honors.
1920 The Supreme Council of the Allies offers guardianship of Armenians in the US and of Palestinians in Britain.
1929 German state borrows from big banks because it has no money to pay civil servants’ salaries and finance unemployment benefits
1940 American actor Al Pacino was born, one of the greatest actors of all time. He performed some of the most memorable roles in the history of modern cinema, while his technique has become an object of study for younger actors. He has been nominated nine times for an Academy Award, finally winning Best Actor for Scent of a Woman (1992). He has also been awarded four Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, one British Academy Film Award, two SAG and two theater Tony Awards.
His Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award wins have made him one of the few actors to have won the Triple Crown of acting. In addition, he has been awarded for his entire career with the honorary award at the Golden Globes (Cecil De Mille) in 2001, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute (AFI) in 2007, the National Medal of Arts in 2012 and the Kennedy Prize in 2016.
1946 Giannis Smaragdis was born.
1942 In China, in the Japanese-occupied city of Benhi, one of the worst coal mine accidents takes place. The dead exceed 1,500.
[1945 The founding conference of the United Nations begins in San Francisco, USA.
[1945 Soviet and American troops meet at the Elbe River.
1947 Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (Johan Cruyff), Dutch football player, (died – March 24, 2016) who played as a striker, was born. He is regarded as the greatest European footballer of all time and at the highest level in football history. In the IFFHS elections for the selection of the best of the 20th century, he ranked 2ndthe position behind only Pele and was the first European. Also, 3 was electedo best player of the 20th century and first European in a special vote of France Football magazine, among the Ballon d’Or winners. After the end of his football career he became a highly successful coach at the highest level and is considered one of the most important and particularly influential in the modern history of the sport. In 2019 he was voted the fourth best coach of all time by France Football with his teacher Rinus Michels first.
1953 Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson publish their groundbreaking work on the chemical structure of DNA. For their discovery, which was characterized as the greatest of the 20th century, they will be honored with the Nobel Prize in 1962.
1954 The US conducts its first nuclear test in the Bikini Islands.
1959 The first person who – as will be revealed later – suffers from AIDS, enters the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He is a sailor by profession and will die 4.5 months later.
1559 The “Lenin” International Prize Committee meets to decide on the awarding of the award to the communist poet Kostas Varnalis
1961 The patent for the first integrated circuit is granted to the American Robert Noyce.
1967 In the US, the governor of Colorado, John Love, signs the first law, legalizing abortion.
1967 The prisoner Panagiotis Elis is murdered in the Hippodrome of Faliros by the lieutenant colonel K. Kotsaris.
Tribute Portugal ~1: 100 years since the founding of the KK – 49 years since the “revolution” of the carnations
1974 The “Carnation Revolution” begins in Portugal, after the overthrow of the dictatorship that had lasted since 1926 by the “Armed Forces Movement”. With the mass entry of the popular masses to the fore, it took on the characteristics of a popular revolution and triggered profound transformations in Portuguese society and marked the liberation of the colonies. On November 25, 1975, however, the counter-revolution prevailed.
Dedication Portugal ~2: from the “revolution” of the carnations to compromise and Eurolust
1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs at the nuclear plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1994 Giorgos Gennimatas (born June 30, 1939), founding member of PASOK, member of parliament and minister during the governments of Andreas Papandreou, has died. Champion of capitalist restructuring _his name has been associated with the Recognition of the National Resistance, the return of political refugees, the National Health System (ESH) and the vote at 18.
1995 American actress and dancer, Ginger Rogers, has died.
2001 — UN experts report that for the first time in years, the protective ozone layer over the North Pole appears to have stabilized.
