1512: Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat the Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars 1783: Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War 1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean 1868: The Shogunate is abolished in Japan 1955: Chartered Air India plane the […]
NASA’s wheeled rovers have revealed an incredible amount about Mars. From learning about the planet’s wet history and discovering the chemistry of its soil and the puzzling presence of methane in its atmosphere, the rolling robots have been indispensable in painting a picture of one of Earth’s closest neighbors. They are remarkable, but they can’t cover a lot of ground […]
Just a few dozen members of the public had gathered outside the gates of Windsor Castle by Friday afternoon. In the hours after the announcement that the 99-year-old Duke of Edinburgh had died, crown estate staff tried to limit the number of bunches of flowers left outside the royal residence where he died, peacefully among his […]
NEW YORK — The Maliotis Cultural Center of Hellenic College Holy Cross will host a virtual conference entitled “1821-2021: The Orthodox Church and the Greek Revolution” on April 17, 2021, beginning at 10 am EST.
A new digital registry obliging Cyprus-based companies to declare their true owners puts the east Mediterranean island nation in line with European Union regulations against “terrorism” financing and organised crime, the country’s commerce and energy minister said on Tuesday. Natasa Pilides said the new registry, which went online last month, bolsters transparency in what is […]
The Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union on Wednesday warned member states that individual decisions affected everyone regarding the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, involved in risks of blood clots, calling for the most coordinated position possible among the 27.
By Edward Steen, Vienna Giorgos Karaivaz, one of Greece’s best-known investigative reporters, was gunned down in broad daylight today just after returning home from work at Star TV at around 14.15.
1407: Lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma 1516: 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area 1815: Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global […]
The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen’s “strength and stay” for 73 years, has died aged 99.
Panagiotis Drakopoulos was born in Athens in 1941.
