Read the most important events that happened today.
1139: The then Count Alfonso, after the battle of Unrique, is proclaimed by the army of the first king of Portugal and declares the independence of the country from Castile.
1788: New York ratifies the US Constitution and becomes the 11th US State.
1822: The Battle of Dervenakia. The small revolutionary forces under Theodoros Kolokotronis disband the Army of Dramalis, turning its remnants into a naughty flight.
1908: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, better known as the FBI, is based in Washington.
1922: Syria is part of France by decree of the League of Nations.
1925: PAOK gives its first friendly match and beats Iraklis 2-1. His players' jerseys feature the four-leafed green clover, which will be replaced by the double-headed eagle four years later. On the same day, the branch of the National Bank of Greece is inaugurated in New York. This is the first branch of a European bank abroad.
1933: In Germany, a law is passed according to which people suffering from serious or inherited physical and mental illnesses will be sterilized.
1945: The Podsdam Declaration is signed, in which Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Hiang Kai-shek set out the terms and conditions for the surrender of Japan to the Allies. Japan accepts the terms of the Declaration.
1952: Heavy mourning in Argentina for the death of Evita Perρόνn, at the age of 33 from leukemia. The second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perρόνn (1895-1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952, shortly before her death at the age of thirty, she received the official title from the Argentine Congress. of the Spiritual Leader of the Nation.
1953: Fidel Castro revolution begins in Cuba. Fidel Castro and his guerrillas attack a barracks in Moncada.
1956: In Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, causing international outcry. At the same time, the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are gaining full political independence from Britain.
1963: Twenty-three people, mostly children, are killed when a motorboat carrying 35 pilgrims heading to a festival at a nearby chapel capsizes on Lake Amvrakia.
1974: The Turks, despite the armistice that was signed, continue to strengthen their forces in Cyprus, through the port of Kyrenia.
1996: Pyrros Dimas wins the gold medal in weightlifting in the 83 kg category at the Atlanta Olympics, lifting 180 kg in the snatch, 212.5 in the zete and 392.5 in the total. In an Olympics that for most Greeks should have been held in our country, since it was the "Golden Olympics", Pyrros Dimas performed the miracle while setting a world record.
2016: Hostage on a church in Normandy, France by jihadists in the village of Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray, during which the priest was beheaded.
Births
1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and Nobel laureate
1865 - Philipp Seidemann, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
1875 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
1893 - George Gross, German painter
1894 - Aldous Huxley, English writer
1908 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1918 - Tomazi Koulimoetoke II, King of Wallis
1922 - Blake Edwards, American director
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American director
1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer and actor
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician, composer and singer, member of the Rolling Stones
1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician and singer, member of the Queen
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
1961 - Dimitris Saravakos, Greek football player
1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, American actress
1974 - Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
1983 - Roderick Strong, American wrestler
1984 - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot athlete
1989 - Areti Ketime, Greek singer and musician
1993 - Elizabeth Gillis, American actress
1993 - Taylor Momsen, American singer and actress
Deaths
146 - Emperor Chiti of Khan
796 - Oph, king of Mercia
811 - Nikiforos I, Byzantine emperor
1471 - Pope Paul II
1863 - Sam Houston, American military and politician
1867 - Otto, King of Greece
1919 - Edward Pounder, British painter
1930 - Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian
1937 - Polyvios Koryllos, Greek physician
1952 - Evita Perρόνn, Argentine politician
1953 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek military and politician
1960 - Mont Menden, Canadian biochemist
1973 - Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician
1976 - Stefanos Natsinas, Greek politician
1978 - Nikos Kitsikis, Greek politician
1999 - Faidon Gizikis, Greek military and politician
2006 - Archbishop Timothy of Crete
2013 - Sung Xai-ki, South Korean activist
