1558: Beginning of the Elizabethan era in England. Queen Mary I dies and her half-sister Elizabeth takes over.
1869: With the official inauguration, the Suez Canal opens to navigation, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea.
1903: The Russian Social Democratic and Labor Party splits into Bolsheviks (majority) and Mensheviks (minority).
1920: England and France agree to the return of King Constantine, on the condition that Greece organizes a major tactical offensive by its army in Asia Minor against Kemal Atatürk.
1927: Tuition increases at the University of Athens. There are clashes between students and the police.
1968: The decision of the Extraordinary Military Court for the attempted assassination of Georgios Papadopoulos is issued. According to her, Alexandros Panagoulis is sentenced to death, Eleftherios Beryvakis (later minister of PASOK governments) to life, Stathis Giotas (later MP and minister) to ten years in prison and the rest of the defendants to shorter sentences.
1903: The Russian Social Democratic and Labor Party splits into Bolsheviks (majority) and Mensheviks (minority).
1920: England and France agree to the return of King Constantine, on the condition that Greece organizes a major tactical offensive by its army in Asia Minor against Kemal Atatürk.
1922: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad VI, leaves Constantinople, effectively handing it over to the government of Ankara. Exiled to Italy.
1927: Tuition increases at the University of Athens. There are clashes between students and the police.
1970: The Soviets' unmanned space probe Luna 17 lands on the Moon. Releases in the Valley of Storms the first self-propelled vehicle "Lunokhod 1", which receives commands from the control center on Earth.
1972: In Buenos Aires, thousands of people cheer Juan Peron, who returns after 17 years in exile.
1973: The April junta suppresses the revolt of the Polytechnic, with the invasion of an armored tank through the central gate of the institution. The students call on the soldiers to join them. There are many dead and hundreds injured. On the same day, martial law is reinstated by the Marquezini government. The dead from the events at the Polytechnic reached 24 according to the research of the National Research Foundation.
1974: The first free elections after 1964 are held in Greece. New Democracy under Konstantinos Karamanlis emerges as the first party with a percentage of 54.37%. They are followed by the Center Union - New Forces under Georgios Mavro with 20.42%, the PASOK of Andreas Papandreou with 13.58% and the United Left (EDA, KKE, KKE Esoterikou) with 9.45%.
1985: 16-year-old Michalis Kaltezas is murdered by a policeman, during the incidents that broke out after the march for the anniversary of the Polytechnic. Police officer Athanasios Melistas shoots Kaltezas in the back of the head as the young man runs with other protesters towards Exarcheion Square.
1989: With the great student demonstration in Prague, the overthrow of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia begins, which will go down in history as the "velvet revolution".
1989: The first non-state television station of nationwide reach, the MEGA Channel, is launched. The owners of the new channel are five publishers (Vardinogiannis, Alafouzos, Lambrakis, Tegopoulos and Bombolas).
2003: Big screen tough guy Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as governor of California.
