Read the most important events that happened today.
787: The 7th Ecumenical Council in Nicaea condemns the iconoclasts and the idolaters, formulating the doctrine that worship belongs only to God and in the images a simple honorary worship is offered.
1811: American inventor John Stevens and his son, Robert Livingston Stevens, launch the first steam-powered ferry boat.
1822: The Executive, following a proposal by the Parliament, appoints Marco Botsari general of Western Central Greece, to replace Georgios Varnakiotis, due to contacts of the latter with Omer Vryonis who were considered suspects.
1822: Joint operation of Algerian pirates and Turkish troops in Mykonos. The brave people of Mykonos, led by Manto Mavrogenous, repel the attack and throw them into the sea
1862: The Revolutionary Committee in Athens (Dimitrios Voulgaris, Roufos Benizelos and Konstantinos Kanaris) declares King Otto and his dynasty deposed and forbids his landing in Piraeus. Note that the royal couple was returning by ship from their tour of the country).
1912: The Greek Army (Cavalry Brigade) liberates Kozani from the Turks. On the same day, former Prime Minister Stefanos Dragoumis is appointed Commander-in-Chief of Crete.
1916: The control of the Greek Navy passes to the French.
1922: The treaty for the withdrawal of the Greek Army from Eastern Thrace is signed in Moudania of Kios. The conference was attended by Britain, France, Italy, Turkey and Greece, and the limits for the retreat of the Greek army on the west bank of the Evros were determined.
1935: Martial law in Greece after a movement. Georgios Kondylis forms a government, while the reign of democracy is abolished by a resolution of the Parliament.
1945: The Chinese Civil War begins. Communist Mao Zedong fights nationalist Chiang Kai-shek.
1954: During the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese gained control of northern Vietnam from the French.
1959: At the Vatican, the Pope announces that Elizabeth Anna Seton's mother will be the first American to be canonized by the Catholic Church.
1961: UN General Assembly votes against South Africa over apartheid.
1962: The first large industrial unit in Northern Greece, the "Titan" cement factory, starts operating near Thessaloniki.
1968"Apollo 7", the first American manned spacecraft, is launched, launching the American program to conquer the Moon.
1978: The biggest victory in the history of national football against Finland with 8-1, under the coach Alketas Panagoulias, for the qualifiers of the Nations Cup. The goals were scored by Mavros (3), Delikaris (2), Nikoloudis (2) and Galakos.
1983Japan's first incumbent Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka, has been convicted of $ 2,1 million in bribery by Lockheed.
1990 - Mexican diplomat and author Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1991: The dissolution of the KGB in the USSR is decided by the Council of State, which decides to replace it with other services.
1993Norwegian publisher William Nygaard, whose publishing house translated and published Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Lyrics" in Norway, is shot and seriously injured in Oslo.
1995: In October 1995, PASOK enters a period of tensions and internal party frictions, as Dimitris Tsovolas resigned from the Central Committee, to later establish DIKKI. Costas Skandalidis was elected Secretary of the Central Committee, after Akis Tsochatzopoulos entered the government. A few days later, Andreas Papandreou entered the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Hospital after a new crisis of his health.
1998: The first municipal and prefectural elections are held in Greece based on the "Kapodistrias Law". Dimitris Avramopoulos is re-elected Mayor of Athens with 57,2%.
2002: The husband of the general secretary of the KKE, Alekas Papariga, Athanasios Paparigas, died after a car accident.
2003: The separation of Siamese girls from Thessaloniki in a long operation is successfully carried out in Rome. The five-month-old girls, as soon as they wake up from the sedation, immediately look for each other.
2003: The Panathinaikos basketball team is writing history, as it is the first Greek team to face an NBA team at its headquarters. He competes in Toronto with the local Raptors and loses 100-76.
2004: The trial of ELA is completed, after 8 months. The three-member Criminal Court of Appeals sentenced each of the accused to 1.174 years in prison against 972 years requested in his proposal by the district prosecutor Mr. Eleftherios Patsis.
2005: Historic elections are taking place in Liberia. Citizens are flocking to the polls to elect a president and a parliament in the first election in the country since the end of a 14-year civil war.
2006: Railway tragedy in France, with five dead, on the border with Luxembourg (collision of a passenger train with a commercial train in Zuftegen).
2006: The resignation of the short-lived right-wing government he led has been announced by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, adding a new page to the four-month political crisis plaguing the country. The People's Democratic Party was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest-lived government in the Czech post-communist era and the first to be ousted, as it did not receive a vote of confidence in Parliament.
Births
1552 - Dmitry Ivanovich Tsarevich, Grand Prince of Moscow
1629 - Armandos of Bourbon-Conti, French nobleman
1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, German physician and astronomer
1859 - George Horton, American diplomat
1876 - Paul Mason, French cyclist
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician
1885 - François Moriac, French writer
1937 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer
1942 - Amitabh Batshan, Indian actor
1945 - Dusty Rhodes (pronounced Virgil Riley Ranels), American wrestler
1947 - Loukas Papadimos, Greek economist and politician
1956 - Nicanor Duarte Fruit, Paraguayan politician
1959 - Savvas Chionidis, Greek politician
1962 - Ann Enright, Irish writer
1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
1977 - Jeremy Zano, French footballer
1992 - Cardi B (known as Belkalis Marlenis Almanzar), American rapper
Deaths
965 - Bruno the Great, Archbishop of Cologne
1188 - Robert I, Earl of Dre
1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
1347 - Louis IV of Bavaria, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1531 - Ulrich Zwinglios, Swiss religious reformer
1633 - Patriarch of Moscow Filaretos
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist
1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
1930 - Robert Dick Wilson, American linguist
1952 - Athanasios Antonopoulos, Greek politician
1952 - Jack Conway, American director
1956 - Pavlos Ventouris, Greek politician
1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer
1988 - Anastasios Tsiaras, Greek politician
1993 - Andy Stewart, Scottish singer
2005 - Rena Kartheou, Greek poet
2007 - Phoebus Taxiarchis, Greek actor
2007 - Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual leader and poet
2008 - Georg Haider, Austrian politician
2010 - Nikolaos Artemiadis, Greek mathematician
2016 - Teatao Teanaki, President of Kiribati
2017 - Clifford Hasbadz, Governor-General of Barbados
