Read the most important events that happened today.
61 π.Χ.: Pompey celebrates his third triumph, for his victories against the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars.
1364: Defeat of the French by the English at the Battle of Ore.
1650: Henry Robinson opens first registered conspiracy office in London.
1864: Francesco Morosini occupies Preveza from the Ottomans.
1687: The Ottomans hand over the bombed Acropolis of Athens to Francesco Morosini.
1789: US War Department builds regular army, numbering hundreds of men.
1793: The word "tennis" first appears in an English sports magazine.
1829: The London Metropolitan Police, known as the Scotland Yard, is established.
1908: In Lucerne, Switzerland, an international conference bans the employment of children under 14 in night work in factories.
1913: The German inventor of the internal combustion engine, Rudolf Diesel, mysteriously disappears, while he has boarded a ship from Ghent, Belgium, bound for Britain. His death will be confirmed on October 18, after his body was found.
1919: Mustafa Kemal extends his activity to Smyrna, aiming at the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor.
1925: The Constitution prepared by the 30-member Committee of the National Assembly is published. General Theodoros Pangalos dissolves the National Assembly and calls elections.
1941: Babi Yar massacre begins: About 30.000 Soviet Union Jews and other unwanted people are executed in the Babi Yar gorge in Kiev, by order of Heinrich Himmler. Dmitry Shostakovich will dedicate the first part of Agreement no. 13, also known as Babi Yar.
1943: The 49 nobles of Paramythia are executed in groups by Tsamides, after they were previously ordered to dig their own grave.
1954: A treaty establishes CERN, the European Agency for Nuclear Research. It is founded by twelve European countries and currently has 20 member states, including Greece, which is also a founding member.
1974: Konstantinos Karamanlis announces the founding of New Democracy.
1998: In Albania, Fatos Nano submits his resignation, due to the inability to form a new cabinet, from the ruling coalition. As the candidate for the prime minister of the country, the presidency of the Socialist Party, proposes the general secretary, Pantelis Maiko.
2002: After a ten-day siege, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat leaves his headquarters in Ramallah, calling the Israeli withdrawal a "trick." Following US pressure, Israel has decided to withdraw its forces from the Palestinian leader's headquarters.
2002: The Basque separatist militant group ETA has said it will target the ruling People's Party and the Socialist Party as military targets.
2002: At the Balkan Men and Women Karate Championship in Makrochori in Veria, the Greek team wins 17 medals (6 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze) and took 2nd place. Turkey took the 1st.
2002: Dionysis Iliadis becomes world champion in the 100 kg category in sambo, a kind of wrestling (something between wrestling and defensive art). He achieved four victories in an equal number of matches.
2003: Seven Pakistani migrants are tragically killed in a fenced minefield in Evros, in the area of Lykofi. Five people were killed in 1999.
2004: Athens, the terrorist organization "Revolutionary Struggle" attempted a bomb attack targeting two MAT buses at the P. Ralli flyover.
2004: Asteroid 4.179 Tutatis passes within 1 million miles of Earth (is the largest known asteroid passing close to Earth)
2004: The flight of the SpaceShipOne spacecraft, which also wins the Burt Rutan Ansari X award, is successful.
2004: Ferenc Gyurcsany becomes the new Prime Minister of Hungary.
2005: In a referendum in Algeria, 97% voted in favor of national reconciliation and amnesty.
2005: Terror reigns in Iraq, where more than 80 people are being killed.
2006: All (737 in total) passengers died in the crash of a Brazilian aircraft "Boeing 155" of Goal Air Transport in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Births
106 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician
1240 - Margarita of England, Queen of Scotland
1276 - Christopher II, King of Denmark
1509 or 1511 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian, physician and cartographer
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria
1561 - Adrian van Romain, Flemish mathematician
1571 - Caravaggio, Italian painter
1703 - François Bouquet, French painter
1758 - Horace Nelson, English Admiral
1820 - Henry V, King of France
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher
1881 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist, sociologist and philosopher
1898 - Christo Smirnensky, Bulgarian poet
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist
1904 - Greer Garson, English actor
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director
1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor
1919 - Mazao Takemoto, Japanese athlete
1922 - Lisabeth Scott, American actress
1930 - Colin Dexter, English writer
1932 - Robert Benton, American director and screenwriter
1933 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician
1942 - Bill Nelson, American politician
1943 - Lech Walesa, Polish politician
1945 - Nadezhda Chizova, Russian shot putter
1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
1951 - Mitchell Bachelet, Chilean politician
1951 - Pierre Luigi Bersani, Italian politician
1952 - Ross Daly, Irish musician
1956 - Sebastian Coe, English politician
1957 - Socrates Malamas, Greek songwriter
1960 - Ieroklis Michailidis, Greek actor
1961 - Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1964 - Bujar Nisani, Albanian politician
1964 - Petros Tambouris, Greek musician
1968 - Alex Skolnik, American guitarist
1973 - Phoebus Delivorias, Greek songwriter
1976 - Andrei Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
1980 - Zakari Levy, American actor
1985 - Danny Pedrosa, Spanish motorcyclist
1988 - Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1989- Michalis Pavlis, Greek football player
Deaths
855 - Lothar I, emperor of the Romans
1186 - William, Archbishop of Tire
1360 - John I, Countess of Auvergne, Queen of France
1530 - Andrea del Charto, Italian painter
1560 - Gustav I, King of Sweden
1833 - Ferdinand VII, King of Spain
1902 - Emile Zola, French writer
1908 - Joaquim Maria Masado de Assis, Brazilian author
1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German engineer
1929 - Basil III, Patriarch of Constantinople
1929 - Giannis Psycharis, Greek writer and linguist
1930 - Ilya Repin, Russian painter
1936 - Alfonso Carlos of Bourbon ascends the Spanish and French thrones
1952 - Sotiris Skipis, Greek poet
1967 - Carson McCullers, American author
1973 - Whistle Oden, English poet
1978 - Pope John Paul I
1979 - Francisco Masia Ngema, President of Equatorial Guinea
1981 - Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and coach
1982 - George Tzamaloukas, Greek politician
1988 - Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros, Greek folklorist
1995 - Alexis Bistikas, Greek director
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American painter
2003 - Theodoros Baglaneas, Greek resistance and politician
2007 - Gula Zivotski, Hungarian hammer thrower
2007 - Babis Tsetinis, Greek singer
2009 - Speranza Vrana, Greek actress
2010 - Tony Curtis, American actor
2012 - Ivi Kamargo, Brazilian singer and actress
