Read the most important events that happened today.
1840: The cornerstone enters the Palace of Westminster in London, which today "hosts" the British Parliament.
1875: In Greece, Charilaos Trikoupis takes over the government of the country for the first time.
1908: Opening ceremony of the 4th modern Olympic Games in London. They last 6 months until October 31 and hold the record for the longest duration. 1999 athletes are participating.
1910: The French National Assembly refuses to sign the law granting women the right to vote.
1941: World War II: German troops enter Athens, marking the beginning of the Occupation period. German troops parade in the capital, with "closed houses", as he said a few hours before the last radio message of "still free Athens".
1941: The author Penelope Delta, committed suicide with poison, in protest of the occupation of Athens by the Germans.
1945: Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian partisans. The same day, the Allies reject a peace offer from SS leader Heinrich Himmler, insisting on Germany's unconditional surrender.
1950: Britain formally recognizes the state of Israel.
1960: The Republic of Togo gains its independence from France.
1961: Sierra Leone gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1964: The government of George Papandreou announces the submission of a bill that provides for the lifting of emergency state security measures, which date back to the era of the Civil War.
1970: For the first time in the world, in a Paris hospital, he is placed in a plutonium pacemaker.
1972: Japan paralyzes 1,6 million workers on strike
1981: The mouse, the "inseparable friend" of computers, makes its debut at Xerox PARC.
1992: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is formed by the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
1995: In Rwanda, according to a UN report, more than 2.000 Hutu have been killed since the Tutsi massacre at the Cimbejo refugee camp.
1996: The last Greeks injured in the terrorist attack in Cairo, who were hospitalized in a hospital in the Egyptian capital, are returning to Athens.
1999: A bomb at the Intercontinental Hotel in Athens kills an IT company employee and slightly injures a colleague. The responsibility is taken by the "Revolutionary Cores".
2008: Cypriot composer Marios Tokas dies at the age of 53.
2012: At least four explosions were reported in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, leaving 4 injured.
2014: Sanctification ceremony of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII.
2014: A tornado in the eastern United States kills more than 45 people.
Births
1748 - Adamantios Korais, Greek philologist
1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer and philosopher
1791 - Samuel Morse, American inventor
1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher
1822 - Odysseus Grant, 18th President of the United States
1903 - Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician
1906 - George Theotokas, Greek writer
1935 - Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter
1939 - Nino Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau
1954 - Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji
Deaths
1404 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
1463 - Isidore, Metropolitan of Kiev
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
1605 - Pope Leo II
1864 - Giannis Makrygiannis, leading figure of the Greek Revolution
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian writer and politician
1941 - Penelope Delta, author
1972 - Kwame Drumah, President of Ghana
1984 - Metropolitan of Thessaloniki Leonidas Paraskevopoulos
1992 - Olivier Messian, French composer
1998 - Carlos Castanieda, Peruvian writer