Read the most important events that happened today.
1812: Berezina's battle, which began on the 26th of the month, ends in Russia with the defeat of Napoleon's French invaders.
1822: Staikos Staikopoulos conquers Palamidi of Nafplio and raises Galanolefki. On the same day, the Greek revolutionaries, under Nikitaras, Tsokris and Hadjichristos, defeat Deli Ahmet Bey in Cortesa, Corinth.
1826: The French philhellene Favieros, led by 480 men, breaks the siege of the Acropolis of Athens by Kioutachis and supplies the besieged with gunpowder for a whole month.
1830: "November Uprising": The Poles revolt against the Russian occupiers.
1899: Swiss businessman Hans Gamber and 11 other people found the Barcelona football team.
1906: The Lancia car industry is founded by the realist and engineer Vicenzo Lancia.
1907: Prince George marries Princess Maria Bonaparte in a religious wedding at the Metropolitan Church of Athens.
1908: During the general assembly of its members, the first statute of Hercules of Thessaloniki is drawn up, which is one of the first Greek sports clubs. It is called "Ottoman Greek Association of Thessaloniki: Hercules".
1912: The military operations for the occupation of Ioannina begin, during the First Balkan War. The Greek Army occupies the fortified positions of Big and Small Bisdouni and Pesta.
1918: Serbia annexes Montenegro.
1929: In Greece, incidents break out between students and the gendarmerie, due to the restrictive measures of the Ministry of Education and the Senate for the exams.
1932: The new destroyers "Hydra" and "Koundouriotis" arrive in Piraeus. On the same day, the Soviet Union signs a non-aggression pact with France.
1934: The King of England George V marries the Princess of Greece Marina.
1944: Albania is liberated from the Axis powers.
1963: The Beatles release their hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand". The pre-sales reach 1.000.000.
1964: The official celebration in Gorgopotamos for the explosion of the homonymous bridge by resistance fighters in 1942 is drowning in blood. An explosion at the scene of the event causes the death of 13 people and the injury of 45.
1967: Panagiotis Pipinelis and Ihsan Sambri Tsaglagyagil agree on the withdrawal of the Greek Division from Cyprus, after the events in Kofinou. At the same time, Turkish warplanes are flying over Nicosia and the Presidential Palace, where Cyrus Vance is meeting with Archbishop Makarios.
1970: Pandemonium is being created in Syntagma Square, in view of the first screening of the film Woodstock at the Pallas Cinema on Bucharest Street. More than 3.000 young people try their best to secure the coveted ticket, while scenes of hysteria unfold during the screening, inside the cinema. A police intervention follows with 13 arrests.
1975: Queen climbs to No. 1 on the UK charts with the song Bohemian Rhapsody.
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1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen name the new company they founded Microsoft (Microcomputer Software).
2009: Antonis Samaras is elected from the first round of the internal party elections as the new president of New Democracy, with a percentage of 50,6%, prevailing of Dora Bakoyannis who received 39,72% and of Panagiotis Psomiadis who received 10,22%. 782.136 voters went to the polls.
Births
1206 - Bella IV, King of Hungary
1293 - Mathilde of Aeneas, princess of Achaia
1329 - John I, Duke of Bavaria
1330 - Louis II, Earl of Flanders
1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence
1797 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer
1802 - July von Eslin, German banker
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist
1825 - Jean-Martin Sarco, French physician
1832 - Louise May Alcott, American author
1861 - Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer
1898 - Clive Staples Lewis, British author
1900 - Mildred Gillers, American announcer
1916 - Sidney Gan-Monroe, politician from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1921 - Savvas Agouridis, Greek theologian
1926 - Andreas Mouratis, Greek football player
1930 - Marika Mitsotaki, Greek wife of Konstantinos Mitsotakis
1931 - Giannis Karabesinis, Greek composer
1932 - Jacques Chirac, French politician
1933 - James Rosenquist, American artist
1934 - Nicefor Solio, President of Benin
1939 - Sandro Salvador, Italian footballer
1942 - Gene Auckland, American journalist
1947 - Petra Karin Kelly, German politician
1949 - Zeb Colter, American wrestler and author
1954 - Joel Cohen, American director
1958 - John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana
1959 - Ram Emanuel, American politician
1962 - Ronnie Jordan, English guitarist
1964 - Don Chiddle, American actor
1965 - Stathis Angelopoulos, Greek singer
1966 - John Leifield, American wrestler and wrestling commentator
1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
1976 - Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
1976 - Chadwick Bushman, American actor
1976 - Anna Faris, American actress
1978 - Dimitris Konstantopoulos, Greek football player
1978 - Christian Raul Lendesma, Argentine footballer
1979 - Game (world-famous Jason Terrell Taylor), American rapper, producer and actor
1985 - Evangelia Aravani, Greek model
Deaths
561 - Chlotarios I, king of the Franks
1268 - Pope Clement IV
1314 - Philip IV, King of France
1378 - Charles IV, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
1463 - Mary of Anjou, Queen of France
1543 - Hans Holbein, the youngest German artist
1630 - Theodosius II, Duke of Braganca
1643 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer
1694 - Marcello Malpigi, Italian physician
1780 - Maria Theresia, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
1872 - Mary Somerville, English mathematician, astronomer and scholar
1873 - Claude Guy, French naturalist and historian
1924 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer
1938 - Cornelius Zele Conreanu, Romanian politician
1939 - Philipp Seidemann, German politician
1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer
1986 - Carrie Grant, English actress
1996 - George Geralis, Greek poet
2001 - George Harrison, English songwriter and guitarist
2006 - Christos Tegopoulos, Greek publisher
2007 - François-Xavier Ortoli, French politician
2010 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director
2017 - Slobodan Praliak, Croatian general