The following happened today:
Facts
1838
March 25th is established by a royal decree of Otto as a national holiday.
1892
Liverpool Football Club is founded.
1924
The Athens Football Club is renamed Panathinaikos Athletic Club.
1926
The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of the Republic, unopposed.
2007
Greece, Russia and Bulgaria sign the agreement for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupoli oil pipeline, following 14 years of negotiations.
2011
“Day of Rage” in Syria, with massive demonstrations once morest the Assad regime. Beginning of the civil war.
Like today – Birthdays
1738
Cesare Beccaria, Italian criminologist, economist, journalist and philosopher, author of the monumental work “On Crimes and Punishments”, which made a decisive contribution to the rational and humanistic reorientation of criminal sciences and the formation of the so-called “Classical School” of Criminal Law. (D. 28/11/1794)
1813
John Snow, English physician, who introduced the use of ether as an anesthetic. He is considered by the fathers of epidemiology. (D. 16/6/1858)
1884
Angelos Sikelianos, one of the greatest Greek poets. His work is distinguished by intense lyricism and special linguistic richness. (D. 19/6/1951)
Like today – Deaths
44 BC
Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor. (Born 7/13/100 BC)
1951
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, Greek astronomer with a career in South Africa. A crater on the Moon bears his name (Paraskevopoulos crater). (Born 6/20/1889)
1975
Aristotle Onassis, Greek tycoon. (Born 15/1/1906)
