Τα δέκα πολυτελή αυτοκίνητα του τέως που σάπιζαν στο Τατόι 

Δέκα αυτοκίνητα – μια ιστορία. Τα υπερπολυτελή οχήματα που

 χρησιμοποιούσε η τέως βασιλική οικογένεια στο Τατόι και 

σάπιζαν επί χρόνια, αναγνωρίστηκαν ως «μνημεία» από το

 Κεντρικό Συμβούλιο Νεωτέρων Μνημείων.

Πρόκειται για Rolls Royce», MG και Fiat, που είχαν κυκλοφορήσει σε περιορισμένο

 αριθμό οχημάτων. Ιδίως οι «Rolls Royce» είναι τα οχήματα με τα οποία η τέως

 βασιλική οικογένεια συνήθιζε να μετακινείται σε επίσημες εκδηλώσεις και επετείους.

Το εσωτερικό τους, φτιαγμένο χειροποίητα, χαρακτηρίζεται από ποιότητα

 κατασκευής και πολυτέλεια, με ακριβά υλικά, όπως επενδύσεις ξύλου και

 δερμάτινες επενδύσεις καθισμάτων.

Τα αυτοκίνητα της τέως βασιλικής οικογένειας φυλάσσονται εντός του κτιρίου

 του Βουστασίου. Τα οκτώ από αυτά είναι επιβατικά βενζινοκίνητα αυτοκίνητα, ενώ 

τα άλλα δύο είναι ηλεκτροκίνητα τρίκυκλα που πιθανώς χρησιμοποιούνταν για τη

 μεταφορά μελών της βασιλικής οικογένειας σε μικρές αποστάσεις εντός των ορίων 

του κτήματος.

Τουλάχιστον τρία επιπλέον οχήματα βρίσκονται στην ευρύτερη έκταση του κτήματος, 

από τα οποία το ένα είναι φορτηγό και τα άλλα δύο οχήματα προσωπικού, ωστόσο 

αυτά δεν συμπεριλαμβάνονταν στην κήρυξη.

Κατά την πρόσφατη συνεδρίασή του, το Κεντρικό Συμβούλιο Νεωτέρων Μνημείων

 γνωμοδότησε κατά πλειοψηφία υπέρ του χαρακτηρισμού των αυτοκινήτων ως

 μνημείων, καθώς πρόκειται για αντικείμενα συνδεδεμένα με σημαντικά γεγονότα 

της σύγχρονης ελληνικής ιστορίας, ιδιαίτερης τεχνολογικής και αισθητικής αξίας

 και τα οποία εντάσσονται στο ίδιο χρονικό πλαίσιο με τα υπόλοιπα κηρυγμένα

 νεώτερα μνημεία του Τατοΐου.

Σημειώνεται ότι μέχρι σήμερα έχουν κηρυχθεί ως κινητά μνημεία στο Τατόι

 357 εικαστικά έργα (2010), αλλά και περίπου 2000 έργα τέχνης, αντικείμενα και

 παραδοσιακές φορεσιές (2013).

Ανακοίνωση του Συλλόγου Φίλων Κτήματος Τατοΐου

«Με ιδιαίτερη χαρά και ικανοποίηση πληροφορηθήκαμε ότι το ΚΣΝΜ του υπουργείου

 Πολιτισμού προχώρησε στον χαρακτηρισμό ως μνημείων των δέκα αυτοκινήτων

 που βρίσκονται στο βουστάσιο του πρώην Βασιλικού Κτήματος Τατοΐου.

Η απόφαση του χαρακτηρισμού λαμβάνεται σε μια κρίσιμη στιγμή για την 

κατάσταση των ιστορικών αμαξιών μιας και τα αμάξια παραμένουν ακίνητα στο

 βουστάσιο για περισσότερα από είκοσι χρόνια. Ενημερωτικά αναφέρουμε ότι τα 

αυτοκίνητα αυτά κινήθηκαν τελευταία φορά το 1994 στα πλαίσια της συντήρησής 

τους. Από τότε μέχρι σήμερα έχουν υποστεί σημαντικές φθορές στο εσωτερικό του

 βουστασίου τόσο από την υγρασία όσο και από τα ποντίκια.

Η ικανοποίηση όλων μας είναι πολύ μεγάλη μιας και το θέμα των αυτοκινήτων

 και του μη χαρακτηρισμού τους ως μνημεία είχε έρθει στην δημοσιότητα πριν από

 ένα περίπου χρόνο όταν ο Σύλλογος Φίλων Κτήματος Τατοΐου ανέδειξε το ζήτημα 

και ενημέρωσε τις υπηρεσίες του υπουργείου Πολιτισμού. Σχετικά δημοσιεύματα

 υπάρχουν στις πιο έγκριτες εφημερίδες την περίοδο εκείνη. Το υπουργείο

 Πολιτισμού κινητοποιήθηκε τότε άμεσα για τον χαρακτηρισμό και σήμερα έχουμε 

την θετική έκβαση αυτής της προσπάθειας.

Θα θέλαμε να επισημάνουμε για ακόμα μια φορά προς όλες τις αρμόδιες υπηρεσίες 

του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού ότι άμεσα θα πρέπει να κινηθούν όλες οι σχετικές

 διαδικασίες για τον χαρακτηρισμό ως μνημείων και των υπολοίπων ιστορικών 

αυτοκινήτων (ανάμεσα στα οποία και το φορτηγό Mercedes) που βρίσκονται

 στο πρώην Βασιλικό Κτήμα Τατοΐου σε πολύ κακή κατάσταση, καθώς και του 

συνόλου των βασιλικών αμαξών. Ο Σύλλογος Φίλων Κτήματος Τατοΐου στέκεται

 στο πλευρό όλων των υπηρεσιών του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού για να βοηθήσει

 με κάθε μέσο την συντήρηση των αυτοκινήτων και των αμαξών και την ασφαλή

 αποθήκευσή τους κάτω από ιδανικές συνθήκες».

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• 325 – The First Council of Nicea: The first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
• 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
• 526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.
• 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
• 794 – King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visits the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He is taken captive and beheaded.
• 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
• 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
• 1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
• 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship  Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
• 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
• 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
• 1521 – Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
• 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
• 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
• 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
• 1645 – The Manchurian Qing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents were massacred for ten days. 800,000 people were killed by the Qing troops.
• 1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
• 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
• 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
• 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
• 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
• 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
• 1882 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
• 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
• 1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
• 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
• 1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
• 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
• 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
• 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
• 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
• 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
• 1927 – Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
• 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
• 1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
• 1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
• 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
• 1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
• 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew.
• 1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
• 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
• 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• 1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
• 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
• 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
• 1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
• 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
• 2006 – Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
• 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
• 2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
• 2014 – More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.

Births[edit]

• 1315 – Bonne of Bohemia (d. 1349)
• 1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
• 1554 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian organist and composer (d. 1594)
• 1593 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian and critic (d. 1656)
• 1663 – William Bradford, English-American printer (d. 1752)
• 1664 – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect (d. 1714)
• 1706 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
• 1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
• 1759 – William Thornton, Virgin Islander-American architect, designed the United States Capitol (d. 1828)
• 1768 – Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, 4th First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1769 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
• 1772 – Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor, developed Congreve rockets (d. 1828)
• 1776 – Simon Fraser, American-Canadian explorer (d. 1862)
• 1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French author and playwright (d. 1850)
• 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (d. 1873)
• 1809 – Albert Newsam, American artist (d. 1864)
• 1818 – William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1881)
• 1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
• 1824 – Cadmus M. Wilcox, American general (d. 1890)
• 1830 – Hector Malot, French author (d. 1907)
• 1838 – Jules Méline, French politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (d. 1925)
• 1848 – Howard Vernon, Australian actor (d. 1921)
• 1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)
• 1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
• 1875 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (d. 1953)
• 1877 – Pat Leahy, Irish jumper (d. 1927)
• 1882 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Johnny Arthur, American actor (d. 1951)
• 1883 – Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
• 1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded the Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951)
• 1889 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
• 1894 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru (d. 1994)
• 1895 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B (d. 1937)
• 1897 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (d. 1983)
• 1897 – Malcolm Nokes, English hammer and discus thrower (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter (d. 1969)
• 1899 – John Marshall Harlan II, American jurist (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)
• 1908 – Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993)
• 1908 – James Stewart, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Gardner Fox, American author (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Annie M.G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Peter Copley, English actor (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Israel) (d. 1981)
• 1916 – Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic
• 1916 – Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Ondina Valla, Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Guy Favreau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 28th Minister of Justice for Canada (d. 1967)
• 1917 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic journalist and politician (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1919 – George Gobel, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
• 1920 – John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient
• 1920 – Betty Driver, English actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (d. 1947)
• 1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Hugh Beach, English general
• 1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 1924 – David Chavchavadze, London-born Russian-American CIA officer and author (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)
• 1925 – Chester Ludgin, American opera singer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (d. 2001)
• 1926 – George Hurst, Scottish-English conductor (d. 2012)
• 1926 – John Lucarotti, English-Canadian screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1927 – Bud Grant, American football player and coach
• 1927 – David Hedison, American actor
• 1927 – Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal
• 1929 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (d. 1973)
• 1929 – Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician
• 1930 – Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1982)
• 1931 – Paul R. Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d. 1987)
• 1932 – Bob Florence, American pianist and composer (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Constance Towers, American actress and singer
• 1935 – José Mujica, Uruguayan politician, 40th President of Uruguay
• 1935 – Mickey Rose, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
• 1938 – Marinella, Greek singer and actress
• 1938 – Alan Smithers, English physiologist and academic
• 1939 – Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1939 – John David Bingham Younger, Scottish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale
• 1940 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1969)
• 1940 – Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
• 1940 – Michel Vastel, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1941 – John Strasberg, American actor
• 1942 – Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
• 1942 – Lynn Davies, Welsh long jumper
• 1942 – Carlos Hathcock, American sergeant (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Simon Keswick, Scottish businessman
• 1943 – Albano Carrisi, Italian singer, actor, and winemaker (Al Bano and Romina Power)
• 1943 – Vernon Fougère, Canadian bishop (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Martin Honeysett, English illustrator
• 1943 – Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, English businessman and politician
• 1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (The Grease Band) (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Boudewijn de Groot, Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Keith Fletcher, English cricketer and manager
• 1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founded Red Bull GmbH
• 1944 – Kathrin Thomas, Welsh politician, Lord Lieutenant of Mid Glamorgan
• 1945 – Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick, English businessman
• 1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian intelligence officer
• 1946 – Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Sonny & Cher)
• 1946 – Robert Chua, Singaporean broadcaster, founded China Entertainment Television
• 1946 – Dave Despain, American journalist
• 1946 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1947 – John Corapi, American priest
• 1947 – Greg Dyke, English journalist
• 1949 – Robert Morin, Canadian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Mary Pope Osborne, American author
• 1949 – Michèle Roberts, English author and poet
• 1949 – Dave Thomas, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Andy Johns, English-American record producer (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Yvon Lambert, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Reinaldo Merlo, Argentinian footballer and coach
• 1951 – Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1951 – Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Thomas Woodcock, English genealogist
• 1952 – Tim Albery, English director and producer
• 1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and manager
• 1952 – Michael Wills, English politician, Minister of Justice for the United Kingdom
• 1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• 1953 – Norbert Siegmann, German footballer and manager
• 1953 – Sheila Watson, English priest and cleric
• 1954 – Guy Hoffman, American singer, drummer, and composer (Violent Femmes, Oil Tasters, and BoDeans)
• 1954 – Cindy McCain, American businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1954 – David Paterson, American politician, 55th Governor of New York
• 1954 – Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway, Scottish judge
• 1954 – Robert Van de Walle, Belgian martial artist
• 1955 – Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer and director
• 1955 – Vivienne Faull, English priest
• 1955 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer
• 1956 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
• 1956 – Dean Butler, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – William Michaelian, American author and poet
• 1956 – Douglas Preston, American author
• 1956 – Marlene Zuk, American biologist and ecologist
• 1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, Japanese politician, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan
• 1958 – Ron Reagan, American radio host
• 1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (The Go-Go's and Frosted)
• 1959 – Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Cowsills and Continental Drifters)
• 1959 – Daniel Darc, French singer-songwriter (Taxi Girl) (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Annabel Giles, Welsh-English radio and television host
• 1959 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and ukulele player (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (d. 1997)
• 1959 – Bronson Pinchot, American actor
• 1960 – John Billingsley, American actor
• 1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
• 1960 – Jay Schellen, American drummer (Hurricane, Asia, GPS, Circa, and World Trade)
• 1961 – Clive Allen, English footballer and manager
• 1961 – Owen Teale, Welsh actor
• 1962 – Mike Jeffries, American soccer player and coach
• 1963 – David Wells, American baseball player
• 1964 – Kōichirō Genba, Japanese politician, 80th Minister for Foreign Affairs for Japan
• 1964 – Edin Osmanović, Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1964 – Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist
• 1965 – Ted Allen, American television host and author
• 1965 – Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Dan Abrams, American journalist
• 1966 – Mindy Cohn, American actress
• 1966 – Emma Johnson, English clarinet player
• 1967 – Graham Brady, English politician
• 1967 – Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
• 1967 – Gabriele Muccino, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-Pakistani terrorist, conducted the World Trade Center bombing
• 1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
• 1968 – Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player and coach
• 1969 – Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and soldier
• 1970 – Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
• 1970 – Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist
• 1971 – Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper
• 1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1972 – Tina Hobley, English actress
• 1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor (The Conglomerate and Leaders of the New School)
• 1973 – Elsa Lunghini, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1973 – Juris Razgulajevs, Latvian figure skater
• 1975 – Pascal Denis, Canadian figure skater
• 1975 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
• 1975 – Juan Minujín, Argentinian actor
• 1975 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
• 1975 – Miriam Quiambao, Filipino actress, host, Miss Universe 1999 1st runner-up
• 1975 – Andrew Sega, American keyboard player and composer (Iris, Stromkern, and Five Musicians)
• 1975 – Mark Zupan, American rugby player and actor
• 1976 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1976 – Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
• 1977 – Matt Czuchry, American actor
• 1977 – Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer
• 1977 – Angela Goethals, American actress
• 1977 – Chad Muska, American skateboarder
• 1977 – Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1977 – Tiger Tyson, American porn actor and director
• 1978 – Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
• 1978 – Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter
• 1978 – Nils Schumann, German runner
• 1979 – Rick Edwards, English television host
• 1979 – Alessandro Hirata, Brazilian academic and jurist
• 1979 – Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer (Spitting Off Tall Buildings)
• 1979 – Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician, 35th Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
• 1979 – Jayson Werth, American baseball player
• 1980 – Austin Kearns, American baseball player
• 1980 – Agnes Kittelsen, Norwegian actress
• 1980 – Kassim Osgood, American football player
• 1980 – Cauã Reymond, Brazilian actor
• 1980 – Mantas Jankavičius, Lithuanian actor and singer
• 1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Sean Conlon, English singer-songwriter (Five)
• 1981 – Morgan Knabe, Canadian swimmer
• 1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
• 1981 – Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
• 1982 – Jack Anthony, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Candace Bailey, American actress
• 1982 – Sierra Boggess, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer
• 1982 – Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
• 1982 – Natalia Podolskaya, Belarusian singer
• 1982 – Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 – Aleksei Saks, Estonian figure skater
• 1983 – Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
• 1983 – Chad Connell, Canadian actor
• 1983 – Roger Huerta, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Matthew Langridge, English rower
• 1983 – Manchu Manoj, Indian actor
• 1983 – Michaela McManus, American actress
• 1983 – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer
• 1983 – Emma Williams, English actress
• 1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
• 1984 – Keith Grennan, American football player
• 1984 – Augusto Midana, Bissau-Guinean wrestler
• 1984 – Naturi Naughton, American singer-songwriter and actress (3LW)
• 1984 – Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Kenny Vasoli, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Starting Line, Person L, and Vacationer)
• 1985 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
• 1985 – Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
• 1986 – Robert Emms, English actor
• 1986 – Vitória Frate, Brazilian actress
• 1986 – Yon González, Spanish actor
• 1986 – Louisa Krause, American actress
• 1986 – Eilidh MacQueen, Scottish-Thai actress
• 1986 – Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 – Anthony Neely, American-Taiwanese singer
• 1986 – Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter
• 1987 – Fra Fee, Northern Irish actor and singer
• 1987 – Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer
• 1987 – Kristopher Van Varenberg, American actor
• 1987 – Julian Wright, American basketball player
• 1988 – Nathaniel Brown, American actor and director
• 1988 – Carla Humphries, American-Filipino actress
• 1988 – Robin Juhkental, Estonian singer-songwriter (Malcolm Lincoln)
• 1988 – Yusuf Kasal, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Miyu Nagase, Japanese singer and guitarist (Zone)
• 1988 – Trīna Šlapeka, Latvian tennis player
• 1989 – Tonia Couch, English diver
• 1991 – Mara Lopez, American-Filipino actress and surfer
• 1991 – Henrik Ojamaa, Estonian footballer
• 1991 – Emre Çolak, Turkish international footballer
• 1992 – Cate Campbell, Australian swimmer
• 1992 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1992 – Christian Antidormi, Australian actor
• 1992 – AJ Muhlach, Filipino actor and singer (XLR8)
• 1992 – Enes Kanter, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1993 – Devon Seron, Filipino actress
• 1994 – Frida Sandén, Swedish singer
• 1995 – Brandon Zibaka, English footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 685 – Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
• 1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
• 1285 – John II of Jerusalem (b. 1259)
• 1444 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380)
• 1503 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian banker and politician (b. 1463)
• 1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, discovered the Americas (b. 1451)
• 1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
• 1622 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1604)
• 1645 – Shi Kefa, Chinese general and calligrapher （b. 1601）
• 1648 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish son of Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1595)
• 1677 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Spanish-English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1612)
• 1713 – Thomas Sprat, English bishop (b. 1635)
• 1717 – John Trevor, English politician, 102nd Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1637)
• 1722 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
• 1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator (b. 1676)
• 1782 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
• 1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (b. 1720)
• 1812 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (b. 1732)
• 1834 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (b. 1757)
• 1841 – Joseph Blanco White, Spanish poet and theologian (b. 1775)
• 1873 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (b. 1814)
• 1880 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814)
• 1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1909 – Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (b. 1859)
• 1917 – Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
• 1917 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)
• 1925 – Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
• 1931 – Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (b. 1831)
• 1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish engineer (b. 1871)
• 1947 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Georgios Siantos, Greek politician (b. 1890)
• 1949 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (b. 1891)
• 1956 – Max Beerbohm, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Josef Priller, German pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1936)
• 1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1975 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1989 – John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Gilda Radner, American actress (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Roger Keith Coleman, American coal miner and murderer (b. 1958)
• 1996 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
• 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 – William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Lucy Gordon, English model and actress (b. 1980)
• 2011 – Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan terrorist, conducted the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Bob Bethell, American politician (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Geoffrey Evans, Irish serial killer (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (Bee Gees, The Rattlesnakes, and One World Project) (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Eugene Polley, American engineer, invented the remote control (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Andrew B. Steinberg, American lawyer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Flavio Costantini, Italian illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Ray Manzarek American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Doors, Rick & the Ravens, Manzarek–Krieger, and Nite City) (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Denys Roberts, English judge and politician (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Zach Sobiech, American singer (b. 1995)
• 2014 – Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Robyn Denny, English-French painter (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Barbara Murray, English actress (b. 1929)

«Τέσσερις μήνες  πλήρους στασιμότητας

«Πότε η κυβέρνηση θα προχωρήσει στην εκτέλεση των έργων;»

Γιατί δεν εγκαταστάθηκε το σύστημα καταγραφής σιεσμικών δονήσεων;

Και η κυρία Ράπτη καταλήγει:

Missing ‘My Fair Lady’ songs resurface, along with memories

Modal Trigger

Julie Andrews and Robert Coote in 1956's "My Fair Lady" at the Mark Hellinger Teatre. Rex Harrison is visible in the shadows at the rear center, as he leans against a pole and takes notes. Photo: Getty Images

 

 

Έριξε άγκυρα ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα κρουαζιερόπλοια Το μεγαλύτερο κρουαζιερόπλοιο που έχει ρίξει ποτέ άγκυρα στον Πειραιά κατέφτασε  στο λιμάνι. Το εντυπωσιακό Quantum of the Seas της εταιρίας Royal Carribean International (RCI) ξεκίνησε από τη Βαρκελώνη με προορισμό το Ντουμπάι και ο Πειραιάς είναι ένας από τους σταθμούς του.

Το κρουαζιερόπλοιο έκανε το παρθενικό του ταξίδι στις 2 Νοεμβρίου 2014. Το πιο hi-tech πλοίο του πλανήτη διαθέτει μεγέθη που εντυπωσιάζουν: Έχει μήκος 347 μέτρα, 2.090καμπίνες, με μέγιστη χωρητικότητα 4.905 επιβατών και πλήρωμα 1500 ατόμων.  

Τον καπετάνιο του πλοίου κ. Srecko «Felix» Ban αλλά και μέλη του πληρώματος υποδέχθηκε  η διοίκηση του ΟΛΠ Α.Ε., παρουσία του Αναπληρωτή υπουργού Ναυτιλίας Θοδωρή Δρίτσα, της υπουργού Τουρισμού κ. Έλενας Κουντουρά, του Πρέσβη των ΗΠΑ David Pearce του Γενικού Γραμματέα του ΕΟΤ Π. Λειβαδά, του Δημάρχου Πειραιά Ιωάννη Μώραλη, του εκπρόσωπου της εταιρίας RCI Ανδρέα Στυλιανόπουλου και παραγόντων της ναυτιλίας.

«Σας υποδεχόμαστε σε ένα λιμάνι 2.500 ετών ιστορίας, σε έναν καινούργιο Προβλήτα που φέρει το όνομα του Αθηναίου Ηγέτη Θεμιστοκλή, νικητή της Ναυμαχίας της Σαλαμίνας κατά της Περσικής Αυτοκρατορίας, αλλάζοντας έτσι τον ρου της ιστορίας για ολόκληρο το δυτικό κόσμο. Σας υποδεχόμαστε όμως και σε ένα ασφαλές και σύγχρονο λιμάνι, το λιμάνι του Πειραιά, το μεγαλύτερο λιμάνι κρουαζιέρας της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου, στο οποίο τα κρουαζιερόπλοια της Royal Caribbean International φιλοξενούνται με άριστη συνεργασία και παροχή ποιοτικών υπηρεσιών», τόνισε στις δηλώσεις του, ο πρόεδρος και διευθύνων σύμβουλο του ΟΛΠ Γιώργος Ανωμερίτης.

Στην ανταπάντηση του ο Πλοίαρχος κ. Srecko ευχαρίστησε τον ΟΛΠ Α.Ε. για την υποδοχή και την άψογη εξυπηρέτηση που έτυχε το πλοίο και οι επιβάτες του.

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• 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
• 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
• 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
• 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1085 – The Swedish town of Helsingborg is founded.
• 1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
• 1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.
• 1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
• 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
• 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
• 1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
• 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
• 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
• 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
• 1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
• 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian–Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
• 1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
• 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
• 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
• 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
• 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
• 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
• 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
• 1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
• 1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
• 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
• 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
• 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• 1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
• 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
• 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
• 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• 1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
• 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
• 1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
• 1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
• 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
• 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
• 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
• 1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
• 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
• 1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
• 1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
• 1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
• 1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
• 2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
• 2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
• 2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
• 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
• 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
• 2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
• 2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
• 2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
• 2014 – A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves four people dead and almost two dozen others injured.
• 2014 – The National September 11 Museum opens to the public.

Births[edit]

• 120 BC – Aurelia Cotta, Roman wife of Gaius Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC)

Albrecht Dürer

• 1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (d. 1528)
• 1527 – Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
• 1653 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1697)
• 1664 – Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)

Alexander Pope

• 1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
• 1755 – Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
• 1763 – Joseph Fouché, French politician (d. 1820)
• 1775 – Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician (d. 1840)
• 1780 – Elizabeth Fry, English philanthropist and reformer (d. 1845)
• 1790 – William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, French-English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household (d. 1858)
• 1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)
• 1799 – Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847)
• 1827 – William P. Sprague, American banker and politician (d. 1899)
• 1832 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (d. 1917)
• 1835 – František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian physician (d. 1884)
• 1843 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
• 1844 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (d. 1910)
• 1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
• 1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1853 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
• 1856 – José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (d. 1929)
• 1860 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
• 1861 – Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician (d. 1918)
• 1863 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)
• 1864 – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Hans Berger, German neurologist (d. 1941)
• 1878 – Glenn Curtiss, American engineer (d. 1930)
• 1880 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (d. 1969)
• 1884 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
• 1885 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (d. 1936)
• 1898 – Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (d. 1990)
• 1898 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
• 1898 – Carl Johnson, American long jumper (d. 1932)
• 1898 – John McLaughlin, American painter (d. 1976)
• 1901 – Manfred Aschner, German-Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Earl Averill, American baseball player (d. 1983)
• 1902 – Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect, designed the Ameritrust Tower (d. 1981)
• 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
• 1904 – Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1943)
• 1907 – John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
• 1909 – François-Albert Angers, Canadian economist (d. 2003)
• 1912 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Chen Dayu, Chinese artist (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Akiva Vroman, Dutch-Israeli geologist (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Cathleen Cordell, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Harold Robbins, American author (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (d. 1993)
• 1918 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (d. 1988)
• 1919 – George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Anthony Steel, English actor and singer (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Forrest White, American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and educator, designed OXO (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
• 1923 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach
• 1923 – Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Robert Creeley, American author and poet (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d, 2012)
• 1928 – Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (d. 1975)
• 1928 – Alice Drummond, American actress
• 1929 – Larance Marable, American drummer (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Robert Welch, British silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Tommy Bryant, American bassist (d. 1982)
• 1930 – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Billy Wright, American singer (d. 1991)
• 1932 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Maurice André, French trumpet player (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (d. 1993)
• 1934 – Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935 – Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Shot Williams, American singer (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboe player, composer, and conductor
• 1941 – Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Steeleye Span, The Watersons, Waterson:Carthy, Brass Monkey, and Blue Murder)
• 1941 – Bobby Cox, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 – Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, English photographer and politician
• 1941 – Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Isley Brothers)
• 1942 – David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
• 1942 – Danny Ongais, American race car driver
• 1943 – Vincent Crane, English pianist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster) (d. 1989)
• 1943 – Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter (The Animals)
• 1944 – Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, Iranian-English academic and politician
• 1944 – Marcie Blane, American singer
• 1944 – Janet Dailey, American author (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Mary Robinson, Irish politician, 7th President of Ireland
• 1945 – Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
• 1946 – Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Bill Champlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Chicago and Sons of Champlin)
• 1947 – Jonathan Hyde, Australian-English actor
• 1947 – Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (d. 1992)
• 1947 – İlber Ortaylı, Turkish historian
• 1948 – Elizabeth Buchan, English author
• 1948 – Jacqueline Davies, English judge
• 1948 – Denis MacShane, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1948 – Leo Sayer, English-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and academic
• 1949 – Denis O'Connor, Northern Irish police officer
• 1949 – Rosalind Plowright, English soprano
• 1950 – Will Hutton, English economist and journalist
• 1951 – Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician
• 1952 – Jonathan Phillips, Irish civil servant
• 1952 – Mr. T, American actor and wrestler
• 1954 – D. B. S. Jeyaraj, Sri Lankan-Canadian journalist
• 1954 – Janice Karman, American voice actress, singer, and producer
• 1954 – Marc Ribot, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bar Kokhba Sextet)
• 1955 – Paul Barber, English field hockey player
• 1955 – Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
• 1957 – James Bailey, American basketball player
• 1957 – Bruce Buffer, American ring announcer
• 1957 – Johann Carlo, American actress
• 1957 – Nadine Dorries, English nurse and politician
• 1957 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
• 1957 – Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
• 1958 – Muffy Calder, Scottish computer scientist
• 1958 – Michael Crick, English journalist and author
• 1958 – Naeem Khan, Indian-American fashion designer
• 1958 – Jefery Levy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Abdulla Yameen, Maldivian politician, 6th President of the Maldives
• 1960 – Mohanlal, Indian actor and producer
• 1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1960 – Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
• 1960 – Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
• 1960 – Jeffrey Toobin, American lawyer and author
• 1962 – David Crumb, American composer
• 1962 – Janey Robbins, American porn actress
• 1963 – Richard Appel, American screenwriter and producer
• 1963 – David Lonsdale, English actor
• 1963 – Pete Sandoval, Salvadoran-American drummer (Terrorizer and Morbid Angel)
• 1963 – Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (My Bloody Valentine, The Complex, and Primal Scream)
• 1963 – Dave Specter, American guitarist
• 1964 – Danny Bailey, English footballer and coach
• 1964 – Nancy Benoit, American wrestling manager (d. 2007)
• 1964 – Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
• 1965 – Josh Richman, American actor, writer, producer, and director
• 1966 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright
• 1966 – Tatyana Ledovskaya, Belarusian hurdler
• 1967 – Chris Benoit, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1967 – Blake Schwarzenbach, American singer and guitarist (Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, The Thorns of Life, and forgetters)
• 1968 – Lauren Hays, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1968 – Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Matthias Ungemach, German-Australian rower
• 1968 – Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
• 1969 – Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
• 1969 – Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
• 1969 – Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
• 1969 – George LeMieux, American lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler
• 1970 – Dorsey Levens, American football player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Carl Veart, Australian footballer and coach
• 1972 – Adriano Cintra, Brazilian singer, guitarist, and producer (CSS)
• 1972 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
• 1972 – Alesha Oreskovich, American model
• 1972 – Brett Tucker, Australian actor and singer
• 1973 – Stewart Cink, American golfer
• 1973 – Noel Fielding, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Havoc, American rapper and producer (Mobb Deep)
• 1974 – Fairuza Balk, American actress
• 1976 – Stuart Bingham, English professional snooker player
• 1976 – Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Aditi Gowitrikar, Indian model, actress, and physician, Mrs. World 2001
• 1976 – Deron Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (CKY, World Under Blood, and Foreign Objects)
• 1977 – Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
• 1977 – Michael Fuß, German footballer
• 1977 – Ricky Williams, American football player
• 1978 – Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Three Days Grace and Big Dirty Band)
• 1978 – Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player
• 1979 – Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian-Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Briana Banks, German-American porn actress and model
• 1979 – Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician
• 1979 – James Clancy Phelan, Australian author
• 1979 – Scott Smith, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter (The Basics)
• 1980 – Chris Raab, American actor and stuntman
• 1981 – Craig Anderson, American ice hockey player
• 1981 – Edson Buddle, American soccer player
• 1981 – Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
• 1981 – Maximilian Mutzke, German singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
• 1981 – Kaori Shimizu, Japanese voice actress
• 1982 – Brian Klemm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Suburban Legends and Big D and the Kids Table)
• 1983 – Līga Dekmeijere, Latvian tennis player
• 1983 – Deidson Araújo Maia, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Lorena Ayala, Dutch model
• 1984 – Brandon Fields, American football player
• 1984 – Sara Goller, German volleyball player
• 1985 – Kano, English rapper, producer, and actor
• 1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer-songwriter (Sugababes and Mutya Keisha Siobhan)
• 1985 – Marco Carta, Italian singer
• 1985 – Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
• 1985 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
• 1985 – Isa Guha, English cricketer
• 1985 – Lucie Hradecká, Czech tennis player
• 1985 – Marie McCray, American porn actress and model
• 1985 – Andrew Miller, American baseball player
• 1986 – Konstantinos Argyros, Greek singer
• 1986 – Myra, American singer and actress
• 1986 – Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer
• 1986 – Alexander Noyes, American drummer (Honor Society)
• 1986 – Eder Sánchez, Mexican race walker
• 1986 – Park Sojin, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer (Girl's Day)
• 1986 – Greg Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Claire Cashmore, English swimmer
• 1988 – Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (Kara)
• 1988 – Jonny Howson, English footballer
• 1988 – Kaire Leibak, Estonian triple jumper
• 1989 – Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1989 – Hal Robson-Kanu, English footballer
• 1991 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
• 1992 – Hutch Dano, American actor
• 1992 – Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer
• 1992 – Olivia Olson, American actress and singer
• 1993 – Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete
• 1994 – Tom Daley, English diver
• 1996 – Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player
• 1997 – Viktoria Petryk, Ukrainian singer

Deaths[edit]

• 987 – Louis V of France (b. 967)
• 1237 – Olaf the Black, Manx son of Godred II Olafsson
• 1254 – Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
• 1471 – Henry VI of England (b. 1421)
• 1481 – Christian I of Denmark (b. 1426)
• 1512 – Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452)
• 1524 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1443)
• 1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish-American explorer (b. 1496)
• 1607 – John Rainolds, English scholar and academic (b. 1549)
• 1639 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568)
• 1647 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
• 1650 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (b. 1612)
• 1664 – Elizabeth Poole, English-American settler, founded Taunton, Massachusetts (b. 1588)
• 1670 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
• 1690 – John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
• 1719 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
• 1724 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1742 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
• 1771 – Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
• 1786 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
• 1790 – Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (b. 1728)
• 1844 – Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
• 1862 – John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
• 1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
• 1894 – Émile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
• 1894 – August Kundt, German physicist (b. 1839)
• 1895 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1901 – Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1911 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer (b. 1857)
• 1915 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
• 1919 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
• 1920 – Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
• 1925 – Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (b. 1871)
• 1926 – Ronald Firbank, English author (b. 1886)
• 1929 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 – Marcel Jacques Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1935 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1940 – Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (b. 1888)
• 1949 – Klaus Mann, German-American author (b. 1906)
• 1952 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1956 – Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
• 1957 – Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
• 1964 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882)
• 1968 – Doris Lloyd, English-American actress (b. 1896)
• 1970 – E. L. Grant Watson, English-Australian biologist and author (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Raymond McCreesh, Irish activist (b. 1957)
• 1981 – Patsy O'Hara, Irish activist (b. 1957)
• 1983 – Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
• 1988 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
• 1995 – Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and producer (Zahara) (b. 1957)
• 1996 – Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Robert Gist, American actor and director (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
• 2000 – John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founded Herbalife (b. 1956)
• 2002 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Frank D. White, American politician, 41st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Howard Morris, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Spencer Clark, American race car driver (b. 1987)
• 2006 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909)
• 2006 – Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Billy Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Eddie Blazonczyk, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Otis Clark, American butler and preacher, survivor of the Tulsa race riot (b. 1903)
• 2012 – Roman Dumbadze, Georgian commander (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Constantine of Irinoupolis, American metropolitan (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Douglas Rodríguez, Cuban boxer (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Bill Stewart, American football player and coach (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist and academic (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Count Christian of Rosenborg (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Frank Comstock, American trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Mohammad Khaled Hossain, Bangladeshi mountaineer (b. 1979)
• 2013 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Bob Thompson, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (b. 1935)
• 2013 – David Voelker, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Poni Adams, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Tunku Annuar, Malaysian son of Badlishah of Kedah (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Evelyn Blackmon, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Johnny Gray, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Karl-Hans Kern, German politician (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)

Wednesday 20 May 11:30 BST

• Albania: Elhaida Dani - I'm Alive
• Armenia: Genealogy - Face the Shadow
• Russia: Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices
• Romania: Voltaj - All Over Again
• Hungary: Boggie Stamenoz - Beauty Never Lies
• Greece: Maria-Elena - One Last Breath
• Estonia: Elina Born & Stig Rasta - Goodbye to Yesterday
• Georgia: Nina Sublatti - Warrior
• Serbia: Bojana Stamenov - Beauty Never Lies
• Belgium: Loic Nottet - Rhythm Inside

 

 

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