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October 15, 2018, 4:47 pm

ATEV, ARMENIA

Wings of Tatev

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

The wonderfully named Wings of Tatev stretches over 3.5 miles between the Armenian village of Halidzor and the famous Tatev Monastery, a center of education and religion in the Middle Ages. The aerial tram holds the Guinness title as the longest nonstop double-track cable car in the world, but that’s not even the most extraordinary thing about this piece of infrastructure.

The cableway soars over the deep Vorotan River Gorge, offering breathtaking views of the landscape as you approach the monastery, which sits perched on a large plateau at the edge of a cliff over the stunning gorge. The monastery complex dates back to the 9th century and is an architectural and historical icon of Armenia, though the structure itself can be overshadowed by the out-of-a-fairytale natural landscape that surrounds it.

The total ride from one side of the cable car to the other is about 12 minutes. Large pillars divide the ropeway into four sections, the longest of which is 1.6 miles long and overlooks the monastery. On top of its record-breaking length, it is also one of the highest reversible cable cars in the world, reaching an elevation of more than 1,000 feet at its highest point.

Know Before You Go

The village of Tatev is reached via a serpentine macadam road, but the cable car is the best and easiest route to the monastery. The line runs between the Tatev station (at the map coordinates above) and the tramway station in Halidzor, also off of H45. Each cabin can accommodate 30 passengers and one attendant.

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GALWAY, IRELAND

Abandoned

Menlo Castle

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown

with vegetation.

Menlo Castle can be found just outside of Galway City on the banks of the River Corrib that flows through the city into Galway Bay. It is a local fixture, visible right from across the river from the National University of Ireland, Galway. Yet this mysterious abandoned castle is so thoroughly overgrown with vegetation it is almost disappearing into the scenery.

The 16th-century castle was the home of the Blake family, English nobles that inhabited the Menlo estate (also called Blake Castle) from 1569 up until a fire destroyed the castle in 1910, tragically taking the life of the Blake’s disabled daughter, Eleanor, whose body was never found.

The riverside path alongside the empty castle is a quiet and unassuming spot, populated by just a few local dog walkers or joggers from the university. The green vegetation that blankets the castle makes it difficult to spot, as it blends in with its natural surroundings. But continue along and you’ll come upon the ruins of a small stone hut, which help to reveal that the castle will soon come into view.

When you get close enough, the large round towers distinguish the castle from the surrounding trees, and once you get a direct line of sight, the exposed stone toward the base reveals the extent of the structure. Green hanging vines cover nearly the entire stone exterior, indicating just how long the castle has been deserted and reclaimed by the natural landscape.

Know Before You Go

The castle is a half-hour walk or a short drive from the center of town. Walk to the end of the dirt road and hop over the locked gate at the end. After that it’s possible to go inside and explore the empty castle.

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VIDEO: The United States is home to many festivals , many featuring live music and regional foods. But in one West Virginia town, one festival is centered around unusual food. We’re talking about fare such as spicy bear and deer stew, rich turtle soup, alligator gumbo, possum and elk. The main ingredients are roadkill … animals killed along the local highways by passing cars.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY

On October 15, 1930, legendary jazz composer Duke Ellington records perhaps his most famous song, “Mood Indigo.” The song was first titled “Dreamy Blues.” Originally an instrumental, lyrics were added by Irving Mills, and the tune was renamed “Mood Indigo.” The song became a jazz standard, and over the years, has been recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and many more.

For many immigrants , U.S. midterm elections traditionally draw minimal interest. But this election cycle, the reaction is different, as a Democratic victory for control of the House or Senate or both would have huge repercussions for immigrant communities .

The U.S. Bill of Right s, ratified in 1791, enshrined in law the right to speech, assembly and worship. Now some congressional leaders are calling for a new bill of rights, one for the internet age. The purpose: to protect people’s personal data .


More Americans are moving to smaller cities in search of a better quality of life. They’re leaving places like Los Angeles, Chicago and New York for mid-sized cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and others, according to an analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

VIDEO: As the economic crisis in Venezuela deepens , the number of children asking for money or food in the streets is sharply on the rise. For some children, it means skipping school to find something to eat. They target supermarkets and restaurants and work on corners begging for money just to survive .

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AEGEAN – 5η στη λίστα με τις 20 καλύτερες αεροπορικές εταιρείες στον κόσμο

H AEGEAN για δεύτερη συνεχή χρονιά διακρίνεται στη λίστα με τις 20 καλύτερες αεροπορικές εταιρείες στον κόσμο. Συγκεκριμένα η AEGEAN κατέλαβε την 5η θέση στη λίστα με τις 20 καλύτερες αεροπορικές εταιρείες στον κόσμο (πλην των ΗΠΑ) που δημοσίευσε το έγκριτο Condé Nast Traveler .

Στην ψηφοφορία που έγινε στο πλαίσιο των 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards συμμετείχαν περισσότεροι από 429.000 ταξιδιώτες.

Το συνοδευτικό σχόλιο του Condé Nast Traveler επισημαίνει μεταξύ άλλων ότι «Παρά το γεγονός ότι δεν πραγματοποιεί ακόμη υπερατλαντικές πτήσεις, η συνεργασία της με την Star Alliance, της προσφέρει μία ευρύτερη παγκόσμια εμβέλεια. Η AEGEAN είναι γνωστή για τον επαγγελματισμό και τη φιλικότητα του προσωπικού της ενώ σχεδιάζει τα επόμενα χρόνια επέκταση σε νέες αγορές».

Οι 20 καλύτερες αεροπορικές εταιρείες στον κόσμο (πλην των ΗΠΑ)

20. Icelandair
19. British Airways
18. Aer Lingus
17. Air France
16. SAS Scandinavian Airlines
15. KLM
14. Qantas
13. Swiss
12. EVA Air
11. Turkish Airlines
10. Lufthansa
9. Cathay Pacific
8. Virgin Atlantic
7. Korean Air
6. Etihad Airways
5. Aegean Airlines
4. Air New Zealand
3. Qatar Airways
2. Emirates
1. Singapore Airlines

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3η Ακαδημία «Digital Cities Challenge»

Ο Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης σταθερά προσανατολισμένος και ανταποκρινόμενος τις σύγχρονες τεχνολογικές και επικοινωνιακές προκλήσεις διεκδίκησε από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή και επέτυχε να συμπεριληφθεί η Θεσσαλονίκη ανάμεσα στις 15 ευρωπαϊκές πόλεις που συμμετέχουν στην πρωτοβουλία «Digital Cities Challenge».

Η συγκεκριμένη πρωτοβουλία έχει ως στόχο να συμβάλλει στην επίτευξη της βιώσιμης οικονομικής ανάπτυξης στην Θεσσαλονίκη μέσω της ενσωμάτωσης των προηγμένων τεχνολογιών. Η «Digital Cities Challenge» ενθαρρύνει τη συμπληρωματικότητα και τις συνέργειες μεταξύ των υφισταμένων πολιτικών για τις ψηφιακές προτεραιότητες, όπως η στρατηγική «Ανθεκτική Πόλη-Θεσσαλονίκη 2030», το επιχειρησιακό πρόγραμμα και οι πρόσφατα προγραμματισμένες δράσεις πολιτικής για την υποστήριξη του ψηφιακού μετασχηματισμού.

Οι επιχειρησιακοί στόχοι της πόλης θα συζητηθούν στην 3η Ακαδημία «Digital Cities Challenge» , η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί στους χώρους του Δημαρχείου, στις 17 και 18 Οκτωβρίου 2018.

Στη διάρκεια των εργασιών της Ακαδημίας ξεχωριστό ρόλο αναμένεται να διαδραματίσει η σύγκριση με τις πρακτικές που ακολουθούνται από άλλες χώρες της Ε.Ε., καθώς και η συζήτηση με ειδικούς πάνω σε θέματα που αφορούν στην υλοποίηση των επιχειρησιακών στόχων. Η διοργάνωση θα δώσει επίσης τη δυνατότητα στην Θεσσαλονίκη να αναδείξει το έργο που έχει γίνει στον τομέα της ψηφιοποίησης και να κινητοποιήσει τους τοπικούς φορείς, που καλούνται να παίξουν έναν αποφασιστικό ρόλο στην επιτυχή υλοποίηση της στρατηγικής.

Επισημαίνεται ότι οι εργασίες θα πραγματοποιηθούν στην αγγλική γλώσσα.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για την Ακαδημία εδώ

Γενικές πληροφορίες για το πρωτοβουλία Digital Cities Challenge εδώ.

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Την ανακατασκευή των εκθεσιακών και συνοδευτικών εγκαταστάσεων στον υφιστάμενο χώρο της ΔΕΘ, καθώς και τη δημιουργία Μητροπολιτικού πάρκου με έντονο το πράσινο στοιχείο το οποίο θα καλύπτει το 50% της συνολικής έκτασης, προβλέπει η πρόταση που παρουσίασε η διοίκηση της ΔΕΘ – HELEXPO στην υπουργό Μακεδονίας - Θράκης, Κατερίνα Νοτοπούλου.

Η πρόταση παρουσιάσθηκε κατά τη συνάντηση εργασίας που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο ΥΜΑΘ.
Στη διάρκεια τής, συζητήθηκαν ακόμη τα επόμενα στάδια υλοποίησης του σχεδίου, που περιλαμβάνουν αρχικά την έγκριση του ειδικού χωρικού σχεδίου και την έκδοση του σχετικού Προεδρικού Διατάγματος εντός του 2019. Ο ανασχεδιασμός του εκθεσιακού κέντρου θα συμβάλλει στην ανάπλαση του κέντρου της πόλης και στην επέκταση και αναδιαμόρφωση ενός Μητροπολιτικού Πάρκου σε συνθήκες «ζωντανής» δραστηριότητας.
Παράλληλα, οι νέες προοπτικές και αναπτυξιακές δυνατότητες που δημιουργούνται ανοίγουν το δρόμο προκειμένου η Θεσσαλονίκη να αποτελέσει ένα ισχυρό εκθεσιακό hub για τη Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη.
Η υφυπουργός Εσωτερικών (τομέας Μακεδονίας και Θράκης) δήλωσε πως υπάρχει από κοινού συνεργασία με τα συναρμόδια Υπουργεία και τη διοίκηση της ΔΕΘ – Helexpo προς την επίτευξη αυτών των στόχων.

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456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
955 – Battle on the Raxa: King Otto I defeats the Obotrite federation led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew near Mecklenburg.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1836 – Battle of Vegkop between Afrikaner voortrekkers and Matabele warriors in South Africa.
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1847 – The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1940 – The Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947 – Republic of the Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published, starting The Chronicles of Narnia series.
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesiantroops.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The so-called Million Man March, which, according to the National Park Service, only about 400,000 attended,^[1] takes place in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2017 – Hurricane Ophelia makes eerie red sun and yellow sky from Sahara dust and ashes from Iberia causes 360,000 homes in Ireland without power and damage

1351 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)
1430 – James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)
1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)
1588 – Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)
1605 – Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)
1620 – Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)
1678 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)
1679 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745)
1710 – András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)
1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)
1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)
1729 – Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
1754 – Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1762 – Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
1789 – William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
1795 – William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)
1802 – Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
1804 – Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (d. 1885)
1806 – William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)
1815 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1818 – William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)
1819 – Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
1831 – Lucy Stanton, American activist (d. 1910)
1832 – Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)
1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
1847 – Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
1852 – Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)
1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
1855 – Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (d. 1931)
1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
1861 – Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1867 – Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)
1869 – Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (d. 1930)
1872 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)
1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1888 – Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)
1890 – Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (d. 2008)
1898 – William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
1900 – Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)
1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903 – Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1904 – Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968)
1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1907 – Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)
1908 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (d. 2006)
1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1911 – Otto von Bülow, German commander (d. 2006)
1912 – Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
1918 – Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)
1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1918 – Tony Rolt, English racing driver and engineer (d. 2008)
1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (d. 2003)
1921 – Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)
1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1922 – Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012)
1922 – Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (d. 2001)
1923 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
1923 – Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1923 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1924 – Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
1927 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1928 – Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016)
1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1930 – John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest
1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 – Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1931 – Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator
1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
1931 – P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1932 – Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
1932 – Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
1934 – Peter Ashdown, English racing driver
1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter
1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 – Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (d. 1997)
1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan
1938 – Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999)
1938 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009)
1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
1941 – Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
1945 – Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
1945 – Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
1945 – Paul Monette, American author and poet (d. 1995)
1946 – Geoff Barnett, English footballer
1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
1947 – Nicholas Day, English actor
1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach
1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of Grateful Dead
1947 – David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1948 – Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
1948 – Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
1948 – Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
1949 – Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright
1950 – Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)
1950 – Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)
1952 – Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
1952 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (d. 2013)
1952 – Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
1953 – Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
1954 – Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger
1954 – Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1954 – Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
1954 – Corinna Harfouch, German actress
1955 – Ellen Dolan, American actress
1956 – Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
1956 – John Chavis, American football player and coach
1956 – Meg Rosoff, American-English author
1956 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)
1957 – Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator
1958 – Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1959 – Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
1959 – Brian Harper, American baseball player
1959 – Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1959 – Philip Maini, mathematician at the University of Oxford
1959 – Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician
1959 – Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
1959 – John Whittingdale, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1960 – Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)
1960 – Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961 – Marc Levy, French author
1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer
1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)
1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
1962 – Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
1962 – Tamara McKinney, American skier
1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic
1964 – Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1964 – James Thompson, American-Finnish author (d. 2014)
1965 – Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator
1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist
1966 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director
1967 – Michael Laffy, Australian footballer
1967 – Davina McCall, English television host and actress
1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer
1968 – Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer
1968 – Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
1968 – Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer.
1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer
1969 – Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler
1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer
1969 – Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager
1971 – Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Paul Sparks, American actor
1971 – Frank Cuesta, Television presenter
1972 – Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author
1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host
1973 – Justin Credible, American wrestler
1973 – David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
1974 – Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
1974 – Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer
1977 – John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, rapper, guitarist, and producer
1977 – Laura Wade, English playwright
1978 – Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer
1979 – Nicola Blackwood, South African-English politician
1979 – Erin Brown, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1980 – Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player
1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1981 – Boyd Melson, American boxer
1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1982 – Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
1982 – Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1983 – Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
1983 – Loreen, Swedish singer and producer
1983 – Kenny Omega, Canadian professional wrestler
1984 – François Pervis, French track cyclist
1984 – Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress
1985 – Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Verena Sailer, German sprinter
1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
1985 – Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player
1986 – Inna, Romanian singer
1986 – Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
1986 – Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
1989 – Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
1990 – Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Danish-Icelandic singer
1991 – Jedward, Irish twin singers
1992 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
1992 – Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
1992 – Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player^[2]^{[better source needed]}
1993 – Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
1994 – Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Amelia Lily, English singer-songwriter
1997 – Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver

385 – Fú Jiān, Chinese emperor (b. 337)
786 – Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (b. 710)
976 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (b. 915)
1027 – Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 994)
1130 – Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate
1323 – Amadeus V, count of Savoy (b. 1249)
1333 – Nicholas V, antipope of Rome (b. 1260)
1438 – Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)
1355 – Louis the Child, king of Sicily (b. 1338)
1523 – Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450)
1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)
1555 – Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b. 1487)
1555 – Nicholas Ridley, English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)
1591 – Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)
1594 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
1621 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)
1628 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1649 – Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621)
1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)
1660 – John Cook, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1608)
1679 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
1680 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)
1730 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658)
1730 – Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666)
1750 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687)
1755 – Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)
1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
1791 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739)
1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)
1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
1799 – Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)
1810 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the breslov hasidic group (b. 1772)
1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)
1877 – Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)
1888 – John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1908 – Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)
1909 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
1913 – Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)
1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
1946 – Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900)
1946 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
1946 – Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)
1946 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
1946 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1946 – Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)
1946 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894)
1946 – Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1946 – Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887)
1946 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)
1951 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
1956 – Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
1957 – John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
1958 – Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
1959 – Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
1959 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
1962 – Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
1964 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
1966 – George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1968 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1971 – Robin Boyd, Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (b. 1919)
1972 – Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
1972 – Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1972 – Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (b. 1886)
1973 – Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909)
1975 – Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)
1978 – Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913)
1979 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)
1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
1981 – Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906)
1982 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
1983 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)
1986 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)
1989 – Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)
1989 – Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (b. 1898)
1989 – Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
1990 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)
1990 – Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)
1992 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898)
1996 – Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
1996 – Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)
1997 – Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
1997 – James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)
1998 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
1999 – Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2000 – Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
2000 – Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
2001 – Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
2003 – Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)
2003 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
2003 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2004 – Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2006 – John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)
2006 – Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)
2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981)
2008 – Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator (b. 1921)
2010 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (b. 1981)
2010 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
2011 – Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (b. 1978)
2012 – Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)
2012 – John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
2012 – Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician (b. 1950)
2012 – Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)
2012 – Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938)
2013 – George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916)
2013 – Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (b. 1925)
2013 – Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2014 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2014 – Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926)
2014 – Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934)
2014 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926)
2015 – Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
2015 – James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940)
2015 – William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930)
2015 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2015 – Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2016 – Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921)
2017 – Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964)
2017 – Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)
2017 – John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946)
2017 – Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)

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1793: αποκεφαλίζεται σε ηλικία 38 ετών στην γκιλοτίνα για προδοσία, από τους Γάλλους επαναστάτες η Μαρία Αντουανέτα, σύζυγος του Λουδοβίκου του 16ου, που είχε εκτελεστεί λίγο νωρίτερα με τον ίδιο τρόπο.

1854: γεννιέται ο Ιρλανδός θεατρικός συγγραφέας, ποιητής και κριτικός Όσκαρ Ουάιλντ.

1886: γεννιέται ο Νταβίντ Μπεν Γκουριόν, ιδρυτής και πρώτος Πρωθυπουργός του Ισραήλ.

1890: γεννιέται ο Ιρλανδός πολιτικός και ηγέτης των επαναστατών Μάικλ Κόλινς. Το Δεκέμβριο του 1921 υπέγραψε τη Συνθήκη, που οδήγησε στη δημιουργία της ελεύθερης Ιρλανδίας και έγινε ο πρώτος Πρόεδρος της. Σκοτώθηκε σε ενέδρα από εξτρεμιστές στις 22 Αυγούστου 1922.

1899: επίσημοι κανόνες για το γυναικείο μπάσκετ διατυπώνονται για πρώτη φορά. Τον καιρό αυτό το γυναικείο μπάσκετ είναι πιο δημοφιλές από το ανδρικό.

1903: η διαμάχη για τα νοτιοανατολικά σύνορα της Αλάσκας λήγει υπέρ της Αμερικής, η οποία παίρνει στην κατοχή της όλους τους θαλάσσιους δρόμους προς την Αλάσκα εκτός της Διώρυγας Πόρτλαντ, που περνα στον Καναδά.

1908: γεννιέται ο κομμουνιστής ηγέτης της Αλβανίας, Εμβέρ Χότζα, ο οποίος κυβέρνησε από το 1944 έως το 1985.

1910: ο παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής μεσαίων βαρών Stanley Ketchel πυροβολείται και πεθαίνει στο Conway του Μιζούρι.

1916: ανοίγει τις πόρτες της στη Νέα Υόρκη η πρώτη κλινική Οικογενειακού Προγραμματισμού από τις Φένια Μίντελ, Έθελ Μπερν και Μάργκαρετ Σάνγκελ.

1919: στην Ελλάδα, εξασφαλίζεται άδεια για την εισαγωγή από τη Ρουμανία πετρελαίου και οικοδομικών υλικών κάθε είδους.

1920: ο τζόκεϊ Gordon Richards κάνει το ντεμπούτο του στο Lingfield Park. Στην 34χρονη καριέρα του θα κερδίσει 4.870 από τις 21.843 κούρσες και θα κατακτήσει τον τίτλο του πρωταθλητή 26 φορές.

1921: ο πρωθυπουργός Δημήτριος Γούναρης ανακοινώνει, ότι κατά τις συνομιλίες του στο Λονδίνο, πέτυχε οικονομική ενίσχυση της Ελλάδας, γρήγορη άρση του αποκλεισμού και αναγνώριση του βασιλιά.

1923: ιδρύεται από τον Γουόλτ Ντίσνεϊ η κινηματογραφική εταιρία «Disney», που κυριαρχεί έως και σήμερα στον τομέα των κινουμένων σχεδίων.

1925: κατά τη διάσκεψη στο Λοκάρνο της Ελβετίας, αναθεωρείται η Συνθήκη των Βερσαλλιών, κατά την οποία Γαλλία, Γερμανία και Βέλγιο αναλαμβάνουν την υποχρέωση να διατηρήσουν τα σύνορα, όπως είχαν καθοριστεί από τη συνθήκη του 1919.

1927: γεννιέται ο νομπελίστας Γερμανός συγγραφέας Γκίντερ Γκρας.

1931: η καθολική Ισπανία νομιμοποιεί το διαζύγιο.

1932: ο Αϊνστάιν ανακοινώνει ότι, σύμφωνα με δικές του εκτιμήσεις, η ηλικία της Γης ανέρχεται σε 10 δισ. χρόνια.

1934: ξεκινά τη «μεγάλη πορεία» προς το Πεκίνο ο Μάο Τσε Τουνγκ, επικεφαλής 25.000 ανδρών, που θα τον φέρει 15 χρόνια αργότερα στην εξουσία.

1940: οι Ναζί ιδρύουν το Γκέτο της Βαρσοβίας. Μέσα σε τρία μόλις χρόνια οι έγκλειστοι Εβραίοι από 450 χιλιάδες αριθμούσαν μόλις 37.000.

1941: γερμανικά στρατεύματα καταλαμβάνουν την Οδησσό στη Μαύρη Θάλασσα.

1943: ο νέος ανώτατος αρχηγός των Ταγμάτων Ασφαλείας στην Ελλάδα, στρατηγός των SS Στρόοπ, ανακοινώνει, ότι θα τουφεκιστεί πολλαπλάσιος αριθμός πολιτών σε περίπτωση επίθεσης και θανάτου ανδρών της χωροφυλακής και της αστυνομίας.

1949: στην Ελλάδα, με ψήφισμα, επιτρέπεται η αναστολή της έκτισης της περαιτέρω ποινής για ορισμένες περιπτώσεις καταδικασθέντων δοσίλογων, υπουργών κατοχικών Κυβερνήσεων κλπ.

1951: δολοφονείται από Μουσουλμάνο ο Πακιστανός πρωθυπουργός Λιακουάτ Αλί Χαν.

1954: επανδρώνεται στο Ηράκλειο της Κρήτης η πρώτη σε ελληνικό έδαφος βάση των ΗΠΑ.

1956: γεννιέται η τραγουδίστρια Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη.

1962: στη Σαουδική Αραβία, ο βασιλιάς Σαούντ ορίζει Πρωθυπουργό τον πρίγκιπα Φεϊζάλ.

1963: νέος Καγκελάριος της Δυτικής Γερμανίας ορίζεται ο υπουργός Οικονομικών, Λούντβιχ Ερχαρντ.

1964: την πρώτη της δοκιμή ατομικής βόμβας πραγματοποιεί η Κίνα.

1968: ο Χρήστος Παπανικολάου καταρρίπτει το πανελλήνιο ρεκόρ στο επί κοντώ με 5.35 αλλά κατατάσσεται τέταρτος στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες του Μεξικού. Πρώτος ανακηρύσσεται ο Αμερικανός Bob Seagren με 5.41.

1968: "οι μαύροι Αμερικανοί αθλητές των 200μ Tommie Smith (1ος) και John Carlos (3ος) ανεβαίνουν στο βάθρο της απονομής με υψωμένη τη γροθιά σε μαύρο γάντι και σκύβοντας το κεφάλι, χαιρετώντας με τον τρόπο που χαιρετά η ριζοσπαστική οργάνωση των νέγρων ""Μαύρη Δύναμη"" (Black Power). Οι δύο αθλητές αποκλείονται στη συνέχεια από τους αγώνες με απόφαση της Ομοσπονδίας των ΗΠΑ δύο μέρες μετά."

1968: στη Νέα Υόρκη των ΗΠΑ, 10.000 άτομα διαδηλώνουν κατά του Πολέμου στο Βιετνάμ.

1970: εκλέγεται Πρόεδρος της Αιγύπτου ο Ανουάρ αλ Σαντάτ, ως διάδοχος του δολοφονημένου Γκαμάλ Αμπντέλ Νάσερ.

1973: μοιράζονται το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης ο Αμερικανός υπουργός Εξωτερικών Χένρι Κίσινγκερ και ο Βορειοβιετναμέζος Λε Ντουκ Θο, επικεφαλής των ειρηνευτικών διαπραγματεύσεων. Ο Θο δεν αποδέχεται το βραβείο.

1982: στην Ιταλία, 100.000 άτομα διαδηλώνουν κατά της Μαφίας στο Παλέρμο.

1984: απονέμεται το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης στον Νοτιοαφρικανό αιδεσιμότατο Ντέσμοντ Τούτου, για τους αγώνες τους κατά των φυλετικών διαχωρισμών του Απαρχάιντ.

1984: πραγματοποιείται σε ιατρικό κέντρο της Καλιφόρνιας η πρώτη μεταμόσχευση καρδιάς σε άνθρωπο από δότη μπαμπουίνο από τον δόκτωρ Λέοναρντ Μπέιλι.

1985: πεθαίνει σε ηλικία 71 ετών ο χαράκτης Τάσσος (Αναστάσιος Αλεβίζος).

1989: ανακοινώνεται ότι ο Μίκης Θεοδωράκης κατεβαίνει ως υποψήφιος της ΝΔ στις προσεχείς βουλευτικές εκλογές.

1989: ξεσπά κυβερνητική κρίση στην Τουρκία μετά την παραίτηση της Κυβέρνησης Ετζεβίτ.

1991: διεξάγονται για πρώτη φορά προεδρικές εκλογές στην Αρμενία.

1992: απονέμεται το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης στη Ριγκομπέρτα Μεντσού, από τη Γουατεμάλα, για τον αγώνα της κατά των φυλετικών διακρίσεων και υπέρ των Ινδιάνων και αυτοχθόνων της Αμερικής.

1992: ο Μάτζικ Τζόνσον παίζει το πρώτο του επαγγελματικό παιχνίδι μετά την αποχώρησή του.

1993: σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα εφημερίδας, πάνω από 1.500 Αλβανοί έχουν σκοτωθεί σε διάφορες χώρες της Ευρώπης.

1994: ο Δημήτρης Αβραμόπουλος, ο Κωνσταντίνος Κοσμόπουλος και ο Στέλιος Λογοθέτης εκλέγονται δήμαρχοι σε Αθήνα, Θεσσαλονίκη και Πειραιά αντίστοιχα.

1995: "στην Ουάσινγκτον, ένα εκατομμύριο μαύροι άνδρες συμμετέχουν στη συγκέντρωση της οργάνωσης ""Το Έθνος του Ισλάμ"", με συνθήματα κατά λευκών, χριστιανών και εβραίων."

1997: η ελληνική Κυβέρνηση προχωρά στη ρύθμιση αγροτικών χρεών, ύψους 200 δισ. δρχ., με την ψήφιση σχετικών τροπολογιών στη Βουλή.

1998: συλλαμβάνεται στο Λονδίνο ο πρώην δικτάτορας της Χιλής Αουγκούστο Πινοσέτ, έπειτα από αίτημα των ισπανικών δικαστικών αρχών, που τον καταζητούν για «γενοκτονία Ισπανών πολιτών».

1999: ο Δημοσθένης Ταμπάκος κατακτά το χάλκινο μετάλλιο στους κρίκους στο 34ο Παγκόσμιο Πρωτάθλημα Ενόργανης Γυμναστικής που γίνεται στην Κίνα.

2000: ο αγώνας Ρεάλ- Ολυμπιακός (75-73) εγκαινιάζει το νέο πρωτάθλημα μπάσκετ της Ευρωλίγκας που διοργανώνεται από την ULEB. Είναι το πρώτο πρωτάθλημα στα τελευταία 47 χρόνια που δεν εποπτεύεται από την FIBA και απαρτίζεται από 24 ομάδες.

2002: ανοίγει και πάλι τις πύλες της στον κόσμο, η Βιβλιοθήκη της Αλεξάνδρειας. Περισσότεροι από 3.000 εκλεκτοί προσκεκλημένοι παρίστανται στα εγκαίνια, που λαμβάνουν χώρα με κάθε μεγαλοπρέπεια. Για την κατασκευή της νέας βιβλιοθήκης χρειάστηκαν 12 χρόνια και περισσότερα από 220 εκατομμύρια δολάρια.

2003: κυκλοφορεί στην αγορά για τις εκδόσεις των Windows XP και Windows 2000 το iTunes.

2003: πεθαίνει σε ηλικία 77 ετών ο Ούγγρος Laszlo Papp, ο πρώτος πυγμάχος που κατέκτησε 3 συνεχόμενα ολυμπιακά μετάλλια (1948, 1952, 1956). Υπήρξε επίσης ο πρώτος πυγμάχος από το ανατολικό μπλοκ που έγινε επαγγελματίας.

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Οι Κόκκινες Μύτες και το ΚΔΑΠ Σχολείο στο Σύννεφο παρουσιάζουν για πρώτη φορά στη Βέροια το τρίμηνο εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα

«Γνωριμία με τις Τέχνες του Τσίρκο»

Ανοιχτή εκδήλωση ενημέρωσης για το πρόγραμμα:

Σάββατο 20 Οκτωβρίου 11:00πμ στο χώρο του Σχολείου:

Ισοκράτους & Πανός στις Εργατικές Κατοικίες, Βέροια

ομιλία για τους μεγάλους: Θετικές επιδράσεις της ενασχόλησης με τις τέχνες του Τσίρκο στις μαθησιακές δυσκολίες
παιχνίδι για τα παιδιά με ζογκλερικά, ακροβατικά, κλόουν μουσική και χορό!

Το ΚΔΑΠ «Σχολείο στο Σύννεφο» σε συνεργασία με την ομάδα παιδικής ψυχαγωγίας «Κόκκινες Μύτες» παρουσιάζει για πρώτη φορά στη Βέροια το τρίμηνο εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα βιωματικών εργαστηρίων «Γνωριμία με τις Τέχνες του Τσίρκου» για παιδιά.

Τα εργαστήρια θα πραγματοποιούνται σε εβδομαδιαία βάση κάθε Σάββατο πρωί στις 11:00πμ στις εγκαταστάσεις του ΚΔΑΠ, Ισοκράτους & Πανός στις Εργατικές Κατοικίες και θα έχει διάρκεια 1,5 ώρας. Απευθύνεται σε παιδιά ηλικίας 6-13 χρονών και ο μέγιστος αριθμός ατόμων είναι τα 20.

Τα παιδιά θα έχουν τη δυνατότητα να γνωρίσουν και να εξασκηθούν πάνω στα ζογκλερικά (juggling), τα ακροβατικά εδάφους και την ισορροπία (acrobalance), τα ξυλοπόδαρα, την τέχνη του κλόουν, το θεατρικό παιχνίδι και την προετοιμασία μικρής παράστασης.

Για την έναρξη του προγράμματος και τη γνωριμία με το κοινό της Βέροιας θα πραγματοποιηθεί ανοιχτή ενημερωτική εκδήλωση

Δύο λόγια για το project:

Του τρίμηνο project «εισαγωγή των Τεχνών του Τσίρκο στην εκπαίδευση» της ομάδας «Κόκκινες Μύτες» βασίζεται στην παραδοχή ότι η εκπαίδευση στις τέχνες του Τσίρκο έχει πολλαπλά οφέλη για τον μαθητή και τη μαθήτρια σε πολλά επίπεδα ανάπτυξης τους. Επιστημονικές έρευνες έχουν αποδείξει ότι η μεθοδική ενασχόληση με τις τέχνες του τσίρκο έχουν ως αποτέλεσμα τη βελτίωση των σχολικών επιδόσεων και γνωστικών δεξιοτήτων ακόμα και την ψυχική ενδυνάμωση και την ανάπτυξη της προσωπικότητας. Οι μαθητές που συμμετείχαν σε ανάλογα προγράμματα στο πλαίσιο της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας έδειξαν μεγαλύτερη ανταπόκριση στην επικοινωνία, πιο έντονη ενσυναίσθηση και συναισθηματική ανθεκτικότητα σε σχέση με άλλους που δεν συμμετείχαν σε τέτοια προγράμματα. Οι τέχνες του Τσίρκο, ως ξεχωριστό και διακριτό κομμάτι των παραστατικών τεχνών λειτουργούν τόσο αναπτυξιακά όσο και θεραπευτικά για τα παιδιά και αντιμετωπίζουν με μεγαλύτερη επιτυχία τυχόν ελλείμματα και μαθησιακές δυσκολίες. Αυτό συμβαίνει διότι ένα παιδί που θα ασχοληθεί με το τσίρκο θα κληθεί να συνεργαστεί, να ρισκάρει, να συντονίσει τη δράση και τις κινήσεις του, να πειθαρχήσει, να θέσει πολύ άμεσους και απτούς στόχους, να εμπιστευτεί, να δουλέψει σκληρά και να αφοσιωθεί μέσω ενός αντικειμένου που αποφεύγει τις αρνητικές προσλαμβάνουσες των παιδιών από τα κοινά μαθήματα (Bolton, 2004, p. Abstract).

Δύο λόγια για τις Κόκκινες Μύτες:

Οι Κόκκινες Μύτες είναι η πιο «φρέσκια» και δυναμική ομάδα παιδικής ψυχαγωγίας και διοργάνωσης παιδικών εκδηλώσεων της Θεσσαλονίκης. Στον μόλις ένα χρόνο παρουσίας της στη Βόρεια Ελλάδα έχει ήδη συνεργαστεί με τους Δήμους Θεσσαλονίκης, Καλαμαριάς, Νεάπολης-Συκεών, Παύλου Μελά, Κορδελιού-Ευόσμου, τη ΧΑΝΘ, το Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών, την Κεντρική Δημόσια Βιβλιοθήκη της Βέροιας, τον Εμπορικό Σύλλογο Βέροιας και το Φεστιβάλ Ροδάκινου.

Δυο λόγια για το ΚΔΑΠ Σχολείο στο Σύννεφο

Το Σχολείο Στο Σύννεφο είναι ένα σχολείο διαφορετικό, ένα σχολείο φτιαγμένο με αγάπη και όνειρα για τα παιδιά… στο πιο ψηλό Σύννεφο. Το ΚΔΑΠ Σχολείο Στο Σύννεφο είναι ένας νέος χώρος στην Βέροια στην περιοχή Εργατικές Κατοικίες για παιδιά ηλικίας 5-12 ετών. Σκοπός του είναι η δημιουργική απασχόληση των παιδιών, η σωστή αξιοποίηση ελεύθερου χρόνου, ο σχεδιασμός κατάλληλων προγραμμάτων ώστε να είναι προσαρμοσμένα στα ενδιαφέροντα και τις ανάγκες του κάθε παιδιού με εξατομικευμένα και ομαδικά προγράμματα με βιωματικό χαρακτήρα.

Η παιδαγωγική ομάδα και οι συνεργάτες μας είναι πτυχιούχοι παιδαγωγικών σχολών και εξειδικευμένοι στην δημιουργική απασχόληση παιδιών με αγάπη για τα παιδιά και το αντικείμενο τους .

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Article 23

October 16, 2018, 12:01 am

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"Πελότα"
Ενθουσιαμένο το κοινό στην πρεμιέρα

Το θερμό χειροκρότημα του κοινού απέσπασε η πρωτότυπη σουρεαλιστική κωμωδία του Κρίτωνα Ζαχαριάδη με τον αινιγματικό τίτλο "Πελότα". Ο Δημήτρης Χατζηθεοδοσίου δίνει ρεσιτάλ ερμηνείας, ενσαρκώνοντας πάνω από 8 χαρακτήρες επί σκηνής, σε ένα έργο με καταιγιστική δράση και ανατρεπτικό φινάλε. Οι παραστάσεις συνεχίζονται, κάθε Τετάρτη στις 20.00!

Λίγα λόγια για το έργο

Ο Στέφανος 42 ετών, αποφασίζει να αφήσει την πόλη του, την πατρίδα του και να κάνει το μεγάλο βήμα. Να πάει στη Γαλλία και να κυνηγήσει τα όνειρα του. Εκεί όμως τα 8 συν 9 άτομα που γνωρίζει, του αλλάζουν τρόπο σκέψης και ζωή ώστε στο τέλος να τον κυνηγούν αυτά.
Εργάζεται σε καμπαρέ; Είναι καθηγητής σχεδίου μόδας; Αποκτά φίλους; Εμπιστεύεται; Τραγουδάει; Ερωτεύεται; Απατά; Συνωμοτεί; Πετυχαίνει;
Πότε πετυχαίνει κανείς τελικά, Όταν πει ότι το προσπάθησε; Όταν επιτύχει το στόχο του; Ή όταν ερωτεύεται και τα εισιτήρια βρίσκονται ακόμα κάτω από την Πελότα;
Δεν καταλάβατε τίποτα ακόμη;
Μια πρωτότυπη κωμωδία όπου ένας ηθοποιός υποδύεται συνολικά 9 συν 8 χαρακτήρες!
Ίσως οι παρακάτω πληροφορίες σας βοηθήσουν…

Official trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQm_9dIJBoU

*Τι σημαίνει Πελότα

πελότα < γαλλική pelote ( βελονοθήκη, μαξιλαράκι, κουβάρι, μπαλάκι)
πελότα < ιταλική pelota ( βελονοθήκη) < ισπανική pelota ( μπάλα, βόλι ,σφαίρα, όρχις, μπαλόνι, βελονοθήκη, συκοφάντης )

Πελότα: αρνητικός , υβριστικός χαρακτηρισμός: ( Ίσα μωρή__________ , συν: Ίσα μωρή κουφάλα )

Συντελεστές
Κείμενο – Σκηνοθεσία : Ζαχαριάδης Κρίτωνας
Βοηθός Σκηνοθέτη: Χρυσανθοπούλου Πέλη
Οργάνωση Παραγωγής: Σπυριδάκη Ραλλού
Μουσική Επιμέλεια - Σύνθεση: Γκατζόφλιας Χάρης
Art Photography: Ιωαννίδου Μαρία , Μουδέλη Χριστίνα
Video Art: Καντόρος Αλέξανδρος
Ήχος – Φώτα: Ατακτίδης Ανέστης
Make-up : Βαλασιάδου Έφη, Κλειούση Μαρία Μαγδαληνή, Παλάνη Ανθή, Χατζή Ελένη
Graphic Design: Free Line
Σχεδιασμός Αφίσας: Παπασταύρου Λευτέρης

Ερμηνεία: Δημήτρης Χατζηθεοδοσίου

Παραστάσεις
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October 16, 2018, 12:03 am

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October 16th: On this Day

1951, 18 year old Richard Penniman, who was already using the stage name Little Richard made his first recordings for RCA Camden at the studios of Atlanta radio station WGST.

1956, Frankie Laine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Woman In Love', the singers fourth and final UK No.1. Laine had the nicknames Mr. Rhythm and Old Leather Lungs.

1961, Decca records released 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline. The ballad, composed by Willie Nelson gave Cline a No.2 country hit in 1962. Nelson originally wrote the song for country singer Billy Walker, but Walker turned it down. The song's eventual success helped launch Nelson as a performer as well as a songwriter. It spent 21 weeks on the chart for Cline, and eventually became one of her signature tunes.

1962, The first night of a two month Motown Records package tour started in Washington DC, featuring Marvin Gaye The Supremes, Mary Wells, The Miracles and 12 year old Stevie Wonder.

1965, The Beatles recorded 'Day Tripper' at Abbey Road studio's London in three takes, they then added vocals and other overdubs, completing the song before the end of the day.

1967, Folk singer Joan Baez was arrested, along with 123 others, for blocking the entrance to an Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California.

1969, Record company executive and founder of the Chess record label Leonard Chess died of a heart attack aged 52. Home to John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, Jimmy Reed and Sonny Boy Williamson.

1969, Bobbie Gentry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again,' the singers only UK No.1.

1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival split up following the failure of their most recent album, 'Mardi Gras'. After limited success as a solo act and some legal hassles with Fantasy Records, John Fogarty would have two big hits in 1985, 'Center Field' and 'Rock and Roll Girls'. John's brother Tom Fogarty died in September, 1990 and the surviving members have been touring as Creedence Clearwater Revisited.

1976, One Hit Wonders Rick Dees and his Cast Of Idiots went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Disco Duck, (part one)'. Dees was a US TV and radio presenter, the song became a No.6 hit in the UK.

1976, Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key Of Life', went to No.1 on the US album chart, (the working title was Let's See Life the Way It Is). Featuring the tracks 'Sir Duke', 'I Wish', 'Pastime Paradise' and 'Isn't She Lovely', it was Wonder's third US No.1 and became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed album of Wonder's career.

1982, Culture Club appeared on UK TV's Top Of The Pops performing 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me'. They were booked on the show thanks to Shakin' Stevens being ill and not able to appear. The song became a major hit after their memorable performance on the music TV show.

1986, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Robert Cray joined other artists on stage in St Louis, for Chuck Berry's 60th birthday concert, as featured in the film 'Hail Hail! Rock & Roll'.

1988, Whitney Houston had her third UK No.1 single with 'One Moment In Time.' The song was recorded to celebrate the Seoul Olympic Games of 1988.

1992, Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary (of his recording debut) tribute concert took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Guest performers include Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Ronnie Wood and Dylan himself.

2001, Two security guards were sacked after refusing to allow Bob Dylan into his own concert. Dylan who had demanded that security on his 'Love and Theft' tour should be tighter than ever didn't have a pass when he arrived backstage.

2006, CBGB, the legendary New York punk club credited with discovering Patti Smith and Ramones, closed after a final gig by Smith herself. Blondie and Talking Heads also found fame after performing at the club, which helped launch US punk music. The venue first opened in December 1973, its full name CBGB OMFUG standing for "country, bluegrass, blues and other music for uplifting gormandizers".

2007, French rock star Bertrand Cantat was freed from jail after serving half of an eight-year sentence for killing his actress girlfriend. Cantat, singer with Noir Desir, was jailed for the manslaughter of Marie Trintignant after a violent row in a Lithuanian hotel in July 2003. She died after spending days in a coma.

2007, Madonna signed a ground-breaking recording and touring contract with concert promoter Live Nation becoming the first major star to choose an all-in-one agreement with a tour company over a traditional record contract. The deal reported to be worth $120m (£59m) over 10 years, would give Live Nation rights to all her music-related projects - including new albums, tours, merchandise, websites, DVDs, sponsorship, TV shows and films.

2010, Auburn University graduate student Justin Havird named a new species of fish, Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini, because the fish's pectoral fin reminded him of the double-neck guitar used by Jimmy Page. 'I'm a big Led Zeppelin fan, and I was listening to them while I was working on the fish,' Havird said. 'The structure that makes this species unique just reminded me of the guitar that Jimmy Page played'.

2015, Patti Smith was said to be moved to tears after a fan returned a bag of stolen goods to the singer, 36 years after they went missing. They included a shirt worn for a 1978 Rolling Stone cover shot and a bandana given to her by her late brother. The items went missing in June 1979 when a truck, which was carrying $40,000 in amplifiers, guitars and other musical equipment, was stolen from outside a hotel after Smith and her band played a show at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.


October 16th: Born on this day

1923, Born on this day, Bert Kaempfert, songwriter, producer, (1961 US No.1 single 'Wonderland By Night'), Presley and Sinatra covered his songs, produced the first recorded Beatles session. He died on 21st June 1980.

1937, Born on this day, Emile Ford, US singer, 1959 UK No.1 single with The Checkmates, 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For''

1938, Born on this day in Koln, Germany, Nico (Christa Paffgen), singer with The Velvet Underground, whose first album, the only one to feature her, was one of the most influential of all time on aspiring musicians. Nico died on 18th July 1988 from a brain haemorrhage, while on holiday in Ibiza. She had hit her head after falling off her bicycle as a result of a minor heart attack.

1942, Born on this day, Dave Loveday, from English Merseybeat band The Fourmost who had the 1964 UK No.6 single 'A Little Loving'.

1943, Born on this day, Fred Turner, bass, vocals, Bachman Turner Overdrive, (1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet').

1945, Born on this day, Roger Hawkins, American drummer best known as part of the studio backing band known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama. He played on many hits including, Percy Sledge (When a Man Loves a Woman), Aretha Franklin (Respect,, Wilson Pickett (Mustang Sally, The Staple Singers, Johnnie Taylor, Cat Stevens, Duane Allman, Joe Cocker, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Bobby Bland, Traffic and Willie Nelson.

1947, Born on this day, American musician and songwriter Bob Weir, best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. The group released more than 140 albums during their career, the majority of them recorded live in concert.

1952, Born on this day, Cordell Mosson, American bassist who was a member of Parliament-Funkadelic. Mosson died of liver failure on April 18, 2013.

1953, Born on this day, Tony Carey, Rainbow, (1981 UK No.3 single 'I Surrender').

1959, Born on this day, British musician and actor Gary Kemp with Spandau Ballet who became one of the most successful groups to emerge during the New Romantic era and have produced a number of international hits during the 80s including 'True', 'Gold' and 'Through the Barricades.'

1962, Born on this day, Michael Balzary, (Flea), bass, vocals, Red Hot Chili Peppers(1994 UK No.9 single 'Give It Away' and 1992 UK No.26 single 'Under The Bridge', 2002 UK No.1 album By The Way).

1965, Born on this day, Simon Bartholomew from English group The Brand New Heavies, who had the 1994 UK No.13 single with their version of 'Midnight At The Oasis'.

1969, Born on this day, Wendy Wilson, vocals, Wilson Phillips, daughter of Beach Boy Brian Wilson, (1990 US No.1 & UK No.6 single 'Hold On').

1977, Born on this day, John Mayer, US singer, songwriter, 2003 Grammy award winner for 'Our Body Is A Wonderland', 2004 US No.1 single 'Daughters').

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October 16, 2018, 12:05 am

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On This Day in History

October 16, 2018

Historical Events

1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia

1900 Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, agreeing to maintain territorial integrity of China and support 'open door' policy called for by US Secretary of State

1934 Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March

1962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba

1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope John Paul II

1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges

More Historical Events

Famous Birthdays

David Ben-Gurion
(1886 - 1973)

Günter Grass
(1927 - 2015)

Michael Collins
(1890 - 1922)

Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)

More Famous Birthdays

Famous Deaths

Joachim von Ribbentrop
(1893 - 1946)

Marie Antoinette
(1755 - 1793)

More Famous Deaths

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