Read the most important events that happened today.
963: Nikiforos Fokas is proclaimed emperor of the Byzantine Empire by the army.
1777: Vermont becomes the first US state to abolish slavery.
1839: The new building of the Ottoion University of Athens (later National and Kapodistrian University) is founded. This is the neoclassical of Panepistimiou Street in Propylaia.
1860: The city of Vladivostok in Russia is founded.
1912: Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia form an alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
1932: Greece adopts summer time.
1961: American author Ernest Hemingway ends his life with a shotgun in Idaho at the age of 61. In the last years of his life he suffered from depression.
1976: North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, are reunited in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1985: Andrei Gromyko becomes President of the USSR and Eduard Shevardnadze replaces him as Foreign Minister.
1989: The Government is sworn in under Tzannis Tzannetakis, who also maintains the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1990: The 28th Congress of the CPSU begins, which will judge not only the future of Gorbachev but also the further course of Soviet society and the state.
1993: 37 Alevi worshipers in India attending a festival are killed when a group of protesters set fire to the festival hotel.
1995: In Algeria, 11 people are killed by explosions in trapped cars.
1996: In Australia, the Government of the Northern State approves the first -in the world- law on euthanasia.
2000: With the golden goal of David Trezeguet, France beats Italy 2-1 in the final of Euro 2000 in Rotterdam and becomes the first team after the title of world champion to win the title of European champion.
2001: Liverpool Airport is called "John Lennon Airport", in honor of the "beetle" that comes from the city.
2005: Bob Geldorf hosts Live 8, with the central motto "Make Poverty History". The whole event, which gives 10 concerts around the world, is organized on the occasion of the G8 summit in Glennings, Scotland, with the aim of pressuring the 8 leaders of the countries involved in the elimination of Africa's debts and its doubling development aid.
2010: In the Republic of Congo, a tanker explodes and kills 230 people.
Births
1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist
1876 - Wilhelm Koono, German politician
1877 - Hermann Esse, German writer
1904 - Rene Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman
1906 - Christos Tsaganeas, Greek actor
1925 - Patrice Lumuba, Congolese politician
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1950 - Jorge del Castillo, Peruvian politician
1957 - Brett Hart, Canadian wrestler
1978 - Diana Gurchkaya, Georgian singer
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
1987 - Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer
Deaths
1504 - Stephen III the Great, Prince of Moldavia
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer and writer
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American author
1973 - Ferdinand Scherner, German general
1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer
1997 - James Stewart, American actor