Read the most important events that happened today.
913: Constantine VII the Purple-Born is proclaimed emperor of Byzantium. It is commissioned by a regency council, headed by Patriarch Nikolaos Mystikos.
1753: The British Museum, the oldest public museum in the world, is founded.
1821: The Battle of Dragatsani. The Holy Corps under Alexandros Ypsilantis is defeated in Dragatsani by superior Turkish forces. In a few days, Ypsilantis will cross the Austrian border, be arrested by the Austrians and imprisoned.
1822: Konstantinos Kanaris sets fire to the Turkish flagship of Kara Ali in Chios. On its deck are all the officers of the Turkish fleet, celebrating Ramadan. The Turkish admiral and more than 1000 people present are killed.
1834: Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitrios Plapoutas are sentenced to death in Nafplio for conspiracy and ultimate betrayal.
1914: The first boat crosses the Panama Canal.
1917: The French, with the approval of Eleftherios Venizelos, exile his Germanophile rivals, Dimitrios Gounaris, Ioannis Metaxas, Spyros Mercouri, Ionas Dragoumis and Victor Dousmanis, in Ajaccio, Corsica.
1919: The last Allied troops are leaving Corfu.
1922: Members of the British mountaineering expedition to Mount Everest manage to reach the highest peak, at an altitude of 8.168 m.
1929: In the new government, Eleftherios Venizelos takes over the Ministry of Health, following a relevant promise to the League of Nations.
1934: Ernst Lehner scores one of the fastest goals in a World Cup match, opening the scoring in the 24th minute of the Germany-Austria match (3-2).
1938: The "Banknote Printing Office of the Bank" is established by the Bank of Greece.
1942: The battle of Midway, one of the most important for the outcome of World War II between the USA and Japan, ends with the victory of the Americans.
1943: In Nazi Germany, Professor Klauberg, leader of the SS battalion, informs Heinrich Himmler that he had developed a method for the effective sterilization of women without surgery.
1965: SONY presents the first home video (model CV-2000). First price: $ 995.
1970: Gordon Banks's historic rebound on Pelé's head in the Brazil-England (1-0) World Cup match in Mexico. Banks is considered by many to be the third goalkeeper of all time behind Lev Yassin and Ricardo Tamora.
1981: Bjorn Borg becomes the first tennis player to win Roland Garros for the sixth time when he beats Ivan Lendl.
1991: Criminal prosecution for violation of the law on the protection of citizens from organized crime, is brought against the responsible newspapers, which republished the proclamation of 17N.
1992: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls on the Imbrians to return to their ancestral homes during his visit to the island, where only 300 Greeks now live.
1994: In Sweden, Parliament passes a law allowing homosexuals to marry without enjoying the same privileges as heterosexual couples.
1995: The trial of the Satanists, Katsoula, Dimitrokali, and Margeti, who are accused of killing two women, begins at the Athens Court of First Instance. On New Year's Eve 1994, the case of the "Satanists of Pallini" was revealed, which shocked the whole of Greece. The "satanic trinity" was accused of seducing young girls, including minors, and all engaged in group sex orgies and black magic ceremonies. On August 27, 1992, the three of them drove 14-year-old Dora Syropoulou to a deserted location in Sesi, Koropi. Katsoulas and Dimitrokallis undressed the little girl, handcuffed her and forced her to kneel holding a candle. She was then beaten with a stick on the head, but she regained consciousness, to her later. When they were convinced that the girl had died, they molested her body and then doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. Their next victim was Garyfallia Giourga, whom they approached on Holy Wednesday, April 14, 1993, and pretending to be police officers, asked her to get in their car and follow them. Her fate was the same as that of Dora Syropoulou. On December 23, 1997, the Athens Mixed Jury Court of Appeals found Asimakis Katsoulas and Manolis Dimitrokallis guilty, without any mitigation. Dimitra Margeti was sentenced to 17 years in prison for simple complicity in two murders, committed by Katsoulas and Dimitrokallis.
1995: Frictions and controversies have been created inside the SW the possibility of party MPs attending the wedding of Paul Glixburg, who have received invitations from the former king.
1997: A hacker named "_eci" is causing concern in Microsoft, as it threatens the security of the Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems.
2002: Malvina Karali, Greek journalist, writer and screenwriter, "left".
2003: Great victory for the National football team of Greece. Wins 1-0 the Spanish team in the qualifying matches for the Pan-European Football Championship, in Spain. Starting point for a unique triumph.
2007: Rocker Bo Didley is buried in Gainesville, Florida, in front of a large crowd. A gospel orchestra plays his songs, while a floral guitar stands out, in the shape of Didley's square guitar.
Births
1761 - Robert Jenkinson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1778 - Bo Brummel, English haute couture critic
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter
1862 - Philipp Lennard, German physicist and Nobel laureate
1868 - Charles McIntosh, Scottish architect and designer
1877 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel laureate
1879 - Knud Rasmussen, Greenland explorer
1886 - Henry Coanda, Romanian "father" of aeronautics
1896 - Robert Sanderson Maliken, American chemist and Nobel laureate
1896 - Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary
1909 - Jessica Taddy, Anglo-American actress
1917 - Dean Martin, American actor and singer
1920 - Georges Marce, French politician, leader of the French Communist Party
1921 - Tal Farlow, American jazz musician
1928 - James Ivory, American film director
1929 - John Turner becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1945 - Wolfgang Seychelles, Chancellor of Austria
1952 - Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
1954 - Louise Erdrich, American author
1958 - Prince, American musician, composer and singer
1960 - Roger Nelson, rock singer
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
Deaths
1329 - Robert de Bruce, King of Scotland
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist
1859 - David Cox, British painter
1896 - Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer
1937 - Gene Harlow, American actress
1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician whose work contributed to the birth of Computer Science
1966 - Jean Arp, French-German sculptor, painter and poet
1967 - Dorothy Parker, American author
1970 - Edward Morgan Forster, British author
1978 - Ronald George Reiford Norris, British chemist and Nobel laureate
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer
1993 - Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player
2002 - Malvina Karali, Greek journalist, writer and screenwriter
2003 - Trevor Gorad, English actor