The following happened today:
Facts
1825
Mehmet Resit Kutahi besieges Messolonghi, which will fall a year later with the heroic exodus.
1850
The naval blockade of Greek ports by the British is lifted, due to the Pacifico (Parkerika) case.
1912
The “Titanic” sinks, after a terrible collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2,340 on board, 1,595 are lost in the icy waters.
1920
Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are accused of killing two employees during a robbery of a shoe store in Massachusetts. They will be executed 7 years later and will pass into the realm of legend.
1955
American player Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1986
America is bombing Libya, in retaliation for the explosion at the Labelle disco in Berlin, where an American citizen was among the victims, but also for the tactics of the Gaddafi government to finance and support Muslim terrorist organizations, which operate in various parts of the country. world. The bombings in Tripoli and Benghazi kill 60 people. The Americans lose an F-111 fighter jet with its crew of two.
Like today – Birthdays
1452
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, inventor, visionary, the personification of the Renaissance man. Described parachute (1480), observed capillary phenomena (1490), designed flying machines (1494), bearings (1496), first gun (1500) and first helicopter (1500). He studied the anatomy of humans and animals, which he captured in detailed drawings – he also made important observations in the fields of geology (earth’s crust), paleontology (fossils) and botany. (D. 2/5/1519)
1489
Kotsa Mimar Sinan Aga, better known as Sinan, architect of Greek origin, the leader of the Ottoman Empire. (D. 17/7/1588)
1935
Stavros Paravas, Greek actor. (Than. 15/9/2008)
Like today – Deaths
1865
Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the USA. (Born 12/2/1809)
1896
George Vizyinos, literary pseudonym of George Michaelides, Greek poet and prose writer. (Born 8/3/1849)
1980
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, who refused to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him in 1964. (Born 6/21/1905)