Today, Friday, April 26, is World Intellectual Property Day

Today, Friday April 26, according to the Orthodox Church, it is the feast of Saint Glaphyra.

Glafyros, Glafyra, Glafyri and Glafyroula are celebrating.

Today is World Intellectual Property Day.

THE April 26th is 116th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar and fall short 248 days for the end of it.

Events of April 26

1336 Petrarch makes the first recorded ascent of Mount Vados.
1564 Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford.
1607 The first British colonists land in North America, on the shores of present-day Virginia.
1825 The famous “Mars Exit” from Navarino took place.
1831 The first press law in Greece is published.
1925 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the first President of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
1933 The Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazi regime, is founded.
1937 The Basque city of Guernica in Spain is bombed by the German air force.
1944 George Papandreou is proclaimed Prime Minister of the Greek government-in-exile in Cairo.
1944 Greek rebels and British commandos kidnap in Crete the commander of the island’s garrison, German general Kraipe, and take him to the Middle East. In retaliation, they burned the villages he crossed with the rebels.
1947 Reception of the Greek Tanker Axios in England.
1960 South Korean President Shingeman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1960 The single price of the metal drachma is determined on 12 pieces of paper, while a new tariff is implemented throughout Greece, except for the Dodecanese.
1960 The trial of 42 communists for espionage begins at the Permanent Military Court of Athens.
1964 The island of Zanzibar and mainland Tankanika form the state of Tanzania, in West Africa.
1986 An explosion occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union, resulting in the worst nuclear accident in history.
1994 The first multiracial elections are held in South Africa.
2005 Faure Gnassingbe is elected president of Togo, while the opposition speaks of fraud.