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JAN:

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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JUL:

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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AUG:

8 Aug 1974: Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M Nixon announced his resignation and he was succeeded by Gerald ford the following day

12 Aug 1981:  IBM: First PC was released

13 Aug 1876:  Der Ring des NibelungenFirst 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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SEP:

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

 

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