On this day, April 26 – A look at the history of the place and the world. Events and persons that remained in history and we must not forget.
121 Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor, born
1798 Eugène Delacroix, French romantic painter (“The Massacre of Chios”) was born
1822 The first tax law of the revolutionary Greeks comes into force, with the imposition of the tithe on fruits.
1825 Ibrahim with 11,000 infantry and 800 horsemen conquers Sfakteria, which was defended by 1,500 Greeks. The Minister of Military Anagnostis Papageorgiou (Anagnostaras) and the Philhellenic Italian revolutionary Santaroza (born 18/11/1783) fall fighting, along with 350 other Greeks.
1828 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. The war ended on September 14, 1829 with a Russian victory and the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople. The outcome of the war contributed significantly to the development of the Revolution of 1821 and to the formation of the international framework that led to the establishment of an independent state.
1831 The first press law in Greece is published, raising a storm of protests against the governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias.
1860 Theoklitos Farmakidis, senior cleric, follower of enlightenment, journalist and fighter of the Greek Revolution (member of the Friendly Society) dies.
1861 Jacob Philip Falmerauer, Austrian traveler, journalist, politician and historian, best known for his theories on the racial origins of the Neo-Greeks, died
1877 Hermes of Praxiteles is discovered in Olympia by German archaeologists.
1900 Charles Richter, American geophysicist, inventor of the eponymous scale for measuring seismic magnitude, was born.
1915 Italy, despite being a member of the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) since its formation in 1882, with the outbreak of World War I, changes imperialist camp and aligns itself with the Entente powers (France, England, Russia) .
1926 PAOK is officially founded, with the approval of its statutes by the Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki.
1929 British pilots make, for the first time, the London-India journey, a distance of 4,130 miles, non-stop.
1933 In Greece, the judicial tivennos is established for the appellants and areopagites, during the exercise of their function.
1937 German air force bombs and destroys the Basque town of Guernica (Guernica) in Spain. “Screams of children, screams of women, screams of birds”, noted the great Spanish communist painter Pablo Picasso in his diary, shortly before capturing the destruction of Guernica in his eponymous painting, bequeathing to eternity the ferocity of war.
1944 The exiled Greek government in Cairo is reformed. George Papandreou is sworn in as Prime Minister, with Panagiotis Kanellopoulos as Vice President
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1963 The pedagogue Michalis Papamavros dies. M. Papamavros was one of the pioneers of educational reform and municipalism, a member of the Educational Group. He was repeatedly persecuted, fired, imprisoned and exiled for his ideas. He took part in the National Resistance. He was elected national councilor of Chios in the National Council of Koryschades. At the same time, together with K. D. Sotiriou, he took over the management of the “Pedagogical Training Center of Free Greece”.
1964 The island of Zanzibar and mainland Tanganyika form the state of Tanzania, in West Africa.
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Soviet Union (Ukraine):
During a scheduled exercise, reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experiences a power fluctuation that results in a series of steam explosions and the destruction of part of the reactor cover.
Thirty-one people died directly from the infection. 29 from messy poisoning and 2 from the explosion. The radioactive plume was carried over areas of the Western Soviet Union and Europe, contaminating them.
Over 135,000 people were immediately evacuated from Pripyat and the surrounding areas, while a 30-kilometer exclusion zone was created around the plant. In the following period, more than 350,400 people were evacuated from the zones of high concentration of radioactive particles.
Hours after the explosion, a giant apparatus is set up to extinguish the fire and cover the reactor. From land and air, with vehicles, robots and helicopters, thousands of tons of cement, sand and materials to absorb the radioactive particles fall, with the result that the fire is completely extinguished at 18.35 (902.gr)
1996 The Greek Parliament passes a law establishing April 24 as the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey.
1999 Argentine former soccer player and coach, Diego Maradona, is arrested in Buenos Aires for drug possession.
2005 The Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos dies, who along with Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa are considered among the most important Latin American writers.
SOURCE: atexnos.gr
