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1 Jan 1863: Lincoln frees America's slaves: Emancipation Proclamation
2 Jan 1920: Born: US novelist, critic and popular scientist Isaac Asimov
4 Jan 1643: Born: Isaac Newton
7 Jan 1610: Discovery of 4 moons revolving around Jupiter: by Galileo
8 Jan 1935: Born: Elvis Presley: Birthday
10 Jan 1929: first series of comic book The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé appears in the Belgian newspaper "Le Vingtième Siècle"
11 Jan 1935: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific
14 Jan 1875: Born: Alsatian medical missionary, theologian, musician, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer
15 Jan 1929: Born in Atlanta: American campaigner for civil rights Martin Luther King Jr.
16 Jan 1809: British General Sir John Moore is killed at the Battle of La Coruňa
18 Jan 1904: British-born US actor Cary Grant
21 Jan 1924: Died: Russian main leader of the Oct Revolution Lenin
22 Jan 1973: Died: 36th president of the USA Lyndon B Johnson
23 Jan 1832: Born: French painter Edouard Manet
31 Jan 1797: Born: Austrian composer Franz Schubert
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1 Feb 1966: Died: US Film Comedian Buster Keaton
5 Feb 1881: Died: Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle
6 Feb 1958: Air crash on take-off at Munich killing 23 people including 8 footballers of Manchester United Munich Air Disaster
7 Feb 1992: Maastricht Treaty signed bringing the new European Union into being Maastrihct Treaty (1992)
8 Feb 1904: Russo-Japanese War began with a Japanese surprise attack on Port Arthur, Manchuria Russo-Japanese War
11 Feb 1990: South African lawyer and civil rights activist Nelson Mandela was released from jail Mandela: Freedom
14 Feb 1989: Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for British author Salman Rushdie concerning his book The Satanic Verses
15 Feb 1952: Funeral of King George VI at Windsor Castle Funeral
17 Feb 1963: Born: Michael Jordan
18 Feb 1932: Born: Czechoslovakian-born US film director: Miloš Forman
21 Feb 1997: Bridgewater Three : convicted for the murder of 13 year old paper boy Carl Bridgewater were freed from jail
22 Feb 1879: Frank W Woolworth opened a store in Utica, New York for five-cent goods only
25 Feb 1994: Militant Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein shot 29 Muslims praying in a mosque in Hebron, Israel
26 Feb 1919: Grand Canyon was officially designated as a National Park in the USA
27 Feb 1933: Reichstag (German Parliament) building burned down: New Nazi government used the event to suppress the Communist Party
28 Feb 1975: Moorgate underground train crash: Moorgate Tube Crash
29 Feb 1992: Bosnia and Herzegovina Referendum began: resulted to independence from Yugoslavia
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3 Mar 1878: Treaty of San Stefano ended the Russo-Turkish War
3 Mar 1847: Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone
4 Mar 1791: Vermont became the 14th state of the USA
12 Mar 1938: Germany occupied Austria Anschluss
13 Mar 1759: Halley's Comet passed its perihelion
14 Mar 1915: German cruiser SMS Dresden was sunk during WWI
17 Mar Saint Patrick's Day
18 Mar 1871 Paris Commune uprising following France's humiliating defeat in Franco-Prussian War
20 Mar 1815 Napoleon entered Paris at start of Hundred Days
21 Mar 1801 Battle of Alexandria British army put an end to Napoleon's Egyptian empire
26 Mar 1979: Israel and Egypt signed a peace accord brokered by President Jimmy Carter Anwar Sadat
29 Mar 1971: Charles Manson : US hippie cult leader and murderer found guilty of nine murders
30 Mar 1968: Born: Celine Dion
31 Mar 1968: Lyndon Johnson announced an end to escalation of the Vietnam War
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2 Apr 1917: US President Woodrow Wilson outlined the case for USA to declare war on Germany: War Message to Congress
3 Apr 1996: Theodore Kaczynski : the notorious 'Unabomber', was arrested in Montana, USA
4 Apr 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
7 Apr 1721: New York Slave Revolt
8 Apr 1838 SS Great Western : the first steam ship to go into regular transatlantic passenger service: from Bristol to New York
10 Apr 1821: Απαγχονισμός Πατριάρχη Γρηγορίου Ε'
22 Apr: Earth Day
23 Απριλίου 1821 Μάχη της Αλαμάνας και θυσία του Αθανάσιου Διάκου
24 Apr 1975: Baader-Meinhof gang blew up the West German embassy in Stockholm, killing several hostages
29 Apr 1945: US troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp on the outskirts of Munich, Germany
30 Apr 1973: US President Richard Nixon admitted responsibility for the Watergate Scandal but denied any personal involvement
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2 May 1952: De Havilland Comet I world's first jet airliner set off on maiden flight from London to Johannesburg
3 May 1810: Lord Byron swam the Hellespont
5 May 1821: Napoleon I died in St. Helena
6 May 1937: Explosion and fire on Hindenburg airship killed 36 people
6 May 1994: Channel Tunnel between UK and France was officially opened
8 May 1945: VE Day : Victory in Europe Day : marked the unconditional surrender of German armed forces
9 May 1950: Schuman declaration forerunner of the European Community, was announced in Rome (EUROPE DAY)
10 Μαΐου 1859: Σκιαδικά : επεισόδια μεταξύ μαθητών και Χωροφυλακής στην Αθήνα τρία χρόνια πριν την έξωση του Όθωνα
11 May 1745: Battle of Fontenoy
12 May: Feast day of Saint Pancras invoked by those seeking protection or relief from cramps (also: London railway station)
14 May 1948: David Ben-Gurion announced the creation of the independent State of Israel
16 May 1960: Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California First Laser
18 May 1883: Born: Walter Gropius : German architect and founder of Bauhaus
18 May 1944: Allied Forces captured hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy
19 May 1920: Memory day for Pontic genocide by the Turks
20 May 1977: Last direct Orient Express left Paris for Istanbul
21 May 1927: Charles Lindbergh arrived in Paris after becoming the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
26 May 1940: Start of rescue operation at Dunkirk beaches which saved more than 300 thousand Allied troops
27 Μay 1679: Habeas Corpus Act in England: prisoners must be brought before court and not unlawfully detained
28 May 1987: West German pilot Mathias Rust landed in Red Square, Moscow
29 Μαΐου 1453: Εάλω η Πόλις: Άλωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Fall of Constantinople
31 May: World No Tobacco Day
JUNE:
5 Jun: World Environment Day
5 Jun 1989: Solidarity party victory in Poland over communists in first country's elections since WWII
6 Jun 1944: D-Day : Debarkation of Allies in Normandy
7 Jun 1929: Vatican City became independent state with the Lateran Treaty
11 Jun 1903: King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were assassinated in a coup
12 Jun 1929: Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main
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16 Ιουλ 1054: O πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Μιχαήλ Κηρουλάριος επισημοποιεί το Σχίσμα των Εκκλησιών
και αφορίζεται από τους απεσταλμένους του Πάπα
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18 Jun 1815: Battle of Waterloo
21 Jun 1937: BBC televised Wimbledon tennis championships for the first time
22 Jun 1981: Mark David Chapman pleaded guilty to the murder of former Beatle John Lennon
22 Jun 1941: Germany invaded Russia
23 Jun 1372: Battle of La Rochelle
24 Jun 1859: Battle of Solferino
25 Jun 1997: The Mir Accident
26 Jun 1945: United Nations Charter signed by 50 countries at San Francisco
23 Jun 1314: Battle of Bannockburn: The Scots defeated the English
28 Jun 1914: Francis-Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria was assassinated precipitating the outbreak of WWI
30 Jun 1971: Three crew members of Soyuz 11 dead after appearing to land safely (sudden drop in cabin pressure)
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1 Jul 1977: Virginia Wade defeated Betty Stove to win women's single title in Wimbledon (100th club anniversary)
3 Jul 1987: Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes committed as Gestapo in Lyons
9 Jul 1821: Θυσία Αρχιεπισκόπου Κυπριανού
10 Jul 1943: WWII: Allied Invasion of Italy
10 Jul 1856: Born: Nikola Tesla Serb, inventor of magnetic field B
11 Jul 1986: British newspapers were banned from printing extracts from Spycatcher
13 Jul 1793: Jean-Paul_Marat French revolutionary: assassinated
14 Jul 1789: Le Quatorze Juillet: Bastille Day French Revolution
16 Jul 1945: First atomic bomb was detonated at a desert site in New Mexico near Los Alamos National Laboratory
17 Jul 1882: Born: Igor Stravinsky
22 Jul 1944: Bretton Woods Conference
23 Jul 1974: End of military rule in Greece
26 Jul 1908: FBI was established in USA (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
25 Jul 2008 (Last Friday in Jul): System Administrator Appreciation Day
29 Jul 1907: Brownsea Island Scout Camp
30 Jul 1966: FIFA World Cup Final: England Vs. West Germany 4-2
31 Jul 1917: Battle of Passchendaele began: WWI
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12 Aug 1981: IBM: First PC was released
13 Aug 1876: Der Ring des Nibelungen: First complete performance by Richard Wagner at Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
13 Aug 1968: Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate dictator Georgios Papadopoulos
14 Aug 1974: Turkish Army advances to the predetermined Attila Line (37% of Cyprus occupied)
14 Aug 2005: Helios Airways Flight 522 Plane Crash: Wikipedia
14 Aug 1880: Cologne Cathedral: Kolner Dom completed
14 Αugust 1777: Danish physicist and chemist: discovered electromagnetism: Hans Christian Orsted
18 Aug 1991: Soviet coup: Conservative attempt to reverse process of reform: Ended in failure
19 Aug 2002: Khankala attack: Near Grosny: Russian military transport helicopter shot down by Chechen rebels
22 Aug 1485: Wars of the Roses: Battle of Bosworth Field
23 Aug 1866: Treaty of Prague: End of Austro-Prussian War
25 Aug 1609: First telescope demonstrated by Galileo Galilei to Venetian lawmakers
26 Aug 1743: Born: Antoine Lavoisier
27 Aug 1883: Krakatoa volcanic eruption
28 Aug 1850: English Channel telegraph cable completed
29 Aug 1893: Zipper invented by US engineer Whitcomb L Judson
30 Aug 30 BC: Died: Cleopatra
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1 Sep 1939: German Invasion of Poland : Start of World War II
2 Sep 1666: Great Fire of London
4 Sep 1957: Wolfenden Report
5 Sep 1997: Died: Mother Teresa
8 Sep 1968: British tennis player Virginia Wade defeated top-seeded US player Billie Jean King to win US Open title
8 Sep 1977: Canadian Cindy Nicholas became the first woman to swim a two-way crossing of the English Channel
10 Sep 1977: Guillotine was used as a form of capital punishment for the last time in France
11 Sep 2001: Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on USA: WTC NYC, Pentagon Washington DC, Pittsburg area
12 Sep 1940: Lascaux cave paintings were discovered
14 Sep 1999: Giannos Kranidiotis: Dassault Falcon 900 airplane accident
16 Sep 1620: Mayflower set sail and transported the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts (New England)
17 Sep 1787: United States Constitution signing
18 Sep 1905: Born Greta Garbo
19 Sep 1959: Nikita Khrushchev became angry: for security reasons he was not allowed to visit Disneyland
20 Sep 1870: Italian Unification
22 Sep 1827: Mormons: Joseph Smith received golden plates with text of the Book of Mormon
23 Sep 1939: Died: Founder of psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
24 Sep 1940: George Cross was instituted by King George VI for recognition of civilian acts of heroism
25 Sep 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge
26 Sep 1973: First Concorde Flight: Washington - Paris: in 3 and a half hours: twice the speed of sound for 2/3 of flight time
26 Sep 1905: Theory of relativity published by Albert Einstein
29 Sep 1938: Munich Agreement
30 Sep 1952: Cinerama: First film demonstration in NYC
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1 Oct 1868: St Pancras Railway Station: Opened by Midland Railway Company
2 Oct 1869: Mahatma Gandhi was born
2 Oct 1935: Second_Italo-Abyssinian War
3 Oct 1906: SOS becomes international distress signal: Decided at the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference
4 Oct 1226: Feast day of St Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order of Grey Friars (date of his death)
5 Oct 2007: First episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Monty Python
7 Oct 1952: Bar Code patented: Wiki Ref
7 Oct 1571: Battle of Lepanto: Christian allied forces defeated the Ottoman Turks
8 Oct 1871: Great Chicago fire
8 Oct 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Nobel Prize for Literature awarded
9 Oct: Death of Che Guevara // Feast of St Denis, patron saint of France
10 Oct 1917: US jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk was born
11 Oct 1980: Cosmonauts in Salyut 6 ended a mission of 185 days in space (a record at the time)
13 Oct 1905: Died: Henry_Irving: First actor to receive knighthood
15 Oct 1917: Execution of Mata Hari Mata Hari
15 Oct 70BC: Born: Virgil: Roman poet
16 Oct 1987: Great Storm in S England
17 Oct: St Audrey's Fair: tawdry: the resulted word to describe anything showy but without quality
22 Oct 1797: Andre-Jacques Garnerin: made the first documented human parachute descent above Parc Monceau, Paris
23 Oct 1910: Death of King of Thailand Chulalongkorn (King Rama V)
23 Oct 1817: Born: Pierre Larousse: French publisher, lexicographer and encyclopedist
25 Oct 1415: Battle of Agincourt // Day of St. Crispin's and St. Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers (settled in Soissons, France)
28 Oct 1940: Greco-Italian War
31 Oct: All-Hallows Eve: Trick or Treat Halloween
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1 Nov 1993: Maastrict Treaty came into effect: From EC to EU: Maastricht Treaty
2 Nov 1911: Odysseas Elytis was born Odysseas Elytis
4 Nov 1995: Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli prime minister was assassinated in Tel Aviv
5 Nov 1944: Died: French surgeon and Nobel prize winner Alexis Carrel
5 Nov 1605: Bonfire Night: Conspirator Guy Fawkes (Guido Fawkes)
8 Nov 1793: Madame Roland was executed at the guillotine: Memoires written in prison
10 Nov 1960: Lady Chatterley's Lover novel by D H Lawrence was published
11 Nov 1918: Remembrance Day (Poppy Day): Armistice: End of WWI
12 Νοεμβρίου 1954: Κλείνει ο σταθμός υποδοχής μεταναστών Ellis Island
12 Nov 1911: Born: Reverend Chad Varah: He set up the Samaritans, a telephone service for the despairing
14 Nov 1851: First edition of Moby-Dick by Hermann Melville
19 Nov 1988: Died: Christina Onassis
19 Nov 1863: Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
20 Nov 1945: Nuremberg Trials began Nuremberg Trials
21 Nov 1694: Born Voltaire
22 Nov 1963: President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas John F Kennedy
23 Nov: Feast day of St Clement, patron saint of blacksmiths and hatters Pope Clement I
24 Nov 1815: Born: Grace Darling: British heroin known for maritime rescue in 1838
27 Nov 1701: Born: Anders Celsius Inventor of thermometer
27 Nov 1983: Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport killing 181 people
28 Nov 1859: Died: Washington Irving: creator of fictitious author Diedrich Knickerbocker in essay " A History of New York"
29 Nov 1814: Steam Printing press capable of 1100 sheets per hour was invented by Friedrich Köning and used for London Times
30 Nov: Saint Andrew : patron saint of Scotland, Patra and Russia
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3 Dec 1990: Channel Tunnel: Britain rejoined continental Europe
3 Dec 1967: First heart transplant performed by Christiaan Barnard
3 Dec 1944: Dekemvriana: Kyvernisi Ethinkis Enotitas Georgiou Papandreou: Defteros Gyuros Emfyliou Polemou
8 Dec 1980: John Lennon: Shot dead by Mark Chapman at New York John Lennon: San simera
9 Dec 1968: Demonstration of first computer mouse at Stanford University by Doug Engelbart and his scientific team
10 Dec 1896: Died: Alfred Nobel
11 Δεκεμβρίου 1922: Γεννήθηκε ο Γρηγόρης Μπιθικώτσης
12 Dec 1959: Protes Proedrikes Ekolges stin Kypro: Makarios vs. Ioannis Kliridis
12 Dec 1821: Born: Gustave Flaubert, writer of "Madame Bovary", master of realism
14 Dec 1995: Ypografi symfonias tou Deyton: Termatistike o polyetis polemos tis Vosnias-Erzegovinis
17 Dec 1770: Born: Ludwig van Beethoven
21 Dec 1940: Died: Author of novel "The Great Gatsby": Francis Scott_Fitzgerald
27 Dec 1950: Born: Haris Alexiou Haris Alexiou: Wikipedia
28 Dec: Childermas: Slaughter by King Herod: the unluckiest day of the year Massacre of the Innocents
29 Dec 1170: Murdered in Canterbury Cathedral: St Thomas Becket Φονικό στην Εκκλησιά (του Τόμας Στερνς Έλιοτ)
30 Dec 2006: Execution of Saddam Hussein
30 Dec 1865: Born: Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born English writer and Nobel Prize winner
31 Dec 1880: Born: George Marshall : American general and father of Marshall Plan