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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
27 Jan: Holocaust Day
31 Jan 1797: Born: Austrian composer Franz Schubert
1 Feb 1966: Died: US Film Comedian Buster Keaton
4 Feb: Anti-Cancer Day
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
14 Feb: Lovers' Day
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
20 Feb: Justice Day
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
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
8 Mar: Woman's Day
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: Anti-Racism Day, Earth Day, Poetry Day, Sleep Day
21 Mar 1801 Battle of Alexandria British army put an end to Napoleon's Egyptian empire
22 Mar: Water Day
23 Mar: Meteorology Day
25 Mar 1821: Greek Revolution
25 Mar: Slavery victims remembrance Day
26 Mar 1979: Israel and Egypt signed a peace accord brokered by President Jimmy Carter Anwar Sadat
27 Mar: Theatre Day
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
1 Apr 1955: Liberation Struggle of EOKA
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
7 Apr: Health Day
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 Apr: Book Day
23 Απριλίου 1821 Μάχη της Αλαμάνας και θυσία του Αθανάσιου Διάκου
24 Apr: Abolition of experiments on animals Day
24 Apr 1975: Baader-Meinhof gang blew up the West German embassy in Stockholm, killing several hostages
29 Apr: Dance Day
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
1 May: Workers' Day
2 May: Laugh Day
2 May 1952: De Havilland Comet I world's first jet airliner set off on maiden flight from London to Johannesburg
3 May: Free press Day
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: Red Cross Dayu
8 May 1945: VE Day : Victory in Europe Day : marked the unconditional surrender of German armed forces
9 May: Europe Day
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
24 May: Day of Parks
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
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
12 Jun: Day against child work
14 Jun: Voluntary blood giver's Day
18 Jun 1815: Battle of Waterloo
20 Jun: Day for refugees
21 Jun: Music Day
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)
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
11 Jul: Day of populations
13 Jul 1793: Jean-Paul_Marat French revolutionary: assassinated
14 Jul 1789: Le Quatorze Juillet: Bastille Day French Revolution
15 Jul 1974: Coup d' Etat in Cyprus
16 Jul 1945: First atomic bomb was detonated at a desert site in New Mexico near Los Alamos National Laboratory
16 Ιουλ 1054: O πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Μιχαήλ Κηρουλάριος επισημοποιεί το Σχίσμα των Εκκλησιών
και αφορίζεται από τους απεσταλμένους του Πάπα
17 Jul 1882: Born: Igor Stravinsky
17 Jul: International Justice Day
18 Jul: Nelson Mandela Day
20 Jul 1974: Turkish invasion in Cyprus
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
12 Aug 1981: IBM: First PC was released
12 Aug: Youth Day
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
30 Aug: Day for missing persons
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: Day for elimination of analphabetism
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
18 Sep: Day for voluntary cleaning of beaches
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
27 Sep: Heart Day
27 Sep: Tourism Day
29 Sep 1938: Munich Agreement
30 Sep 1952: Cinerama: First film demonstration in NYC
1 Oct 1868: St Pancras Railway Station: Opened by Midland Railway Company
1 Oct: Day for old people
1 Oct: Cyprus Independence Day
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: Day for animals
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
13 Oct: Day for reduction of physical disasters
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: Day for elimination of poverty
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
24 Oct: UN Day
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
31 Oct: Day for savings
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
14 Nov: Day against diabetes
16 Nov: Tolerance Day
16 Nov: Day of remembrance for road accident victims
17 Nov 1973: Athens Technical University Revolution
19 Nov 1988: Died: Christina Onassis
19 Nov 1863: Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
20 Nov: Child Day
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
25 Nov: Day for elimination of violence against women
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
1 Dec: Day against AIDS
2 Dec: Day for elimination of slavery
3 Dec: Day for persons with special needs
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
10 Dec: Day for human rights
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
18 Dec: Immigrant Day
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
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