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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

27 Jan: Holocaust Day

31 Jan 1797: Born: Austrian composer  Franz Schubert

FEB:

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

MAR:

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

APR:

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

MAY:

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

JUN:

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)

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

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

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

12 Aug: Youth Day

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

30 Aug: Day for missing persons

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: 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

OCT:

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

NOV:

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

 

DEC:

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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