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• 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
• 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
• 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
• 1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
• 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
• 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
• 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
• 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
• 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
• 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
• 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
• 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
• 1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
• 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
• 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
• 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
• 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
• 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
• 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• 1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
• 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
• 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
• 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
• 1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
• 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
• 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• 1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
• 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
• 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
• 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• 1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
• 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
• 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
• 1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
• 1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
• 1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
• 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
• 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
• 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
• 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
• 1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
• 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
• 2001 – Mountain climbing: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
• 2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
• 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

Births[edit]

• 15 BC – Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19)
• 1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• 1522 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
• 1544 – William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603)
• 1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682)
• 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736)
• 1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769)
• 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793)
• 1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
• 1803 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist (d. 1866)
• 1809 – Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton, British Poor Law Commissioner (d. 1874)
• 1810 – Charles Clark, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
• 1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
• 1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868)
• 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
• 1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Rowntree, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1925)
• 1854 – John Riley Banister, American police officer (d. 1918)
• 1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940)
• 1863 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1868 – Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
• 1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo, American judge (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Jan Smuts, South African politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
• 1875 – Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961)
• 1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972)
• 1879 – H. B. Reese, American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956)
• 1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and academic (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
• 1887 – Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
• 1891 – William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Kathleen Hale, English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
• 1899 – Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)
• 1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954)
• 1902 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d. 2004)
• 1903 – Milo Burcham, American pilot (d. 1944)
• 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1909 – Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Joe Abreu, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Audrey Brown, English runner (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Peter Ellenshaw, American special effects designer (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian opera singer (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Maria Michi, Italian actress (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
• 1924 – Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Philip Pearlstein, American painter
• 1925 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 – William Trevor, Irish author and playwright
• 1930 – Hans-Martin Linde, German flute player and author
• 1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor
• 1932 – James Anderton, English police officer
• 1932 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright
• 1933 – Jane Byrne, American politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Réal Giguère, Canadian television host
• 1933 – Robert C. Hastie, Welsh politician
• 1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Christopher Staughton, English lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Barry Rose, English organist and conductor
• 1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director and screenwriter
• 1935 – Rusty York, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet
• 1937 – Timothy Brown, American football player and actor
• 1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Roger Peterson, American pilot (d. 1959)
• 1937 – Archie Shepp, American saxophonist and composer
• 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – David Viscott, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1996)
• 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Traveling Wilburys)
• 1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English academic and politician
• 1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and academic
• 1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer
• 1942 – Lázár Lovász, Hungarian hammer thrower
• 1942 – Hannu Mikkola, Finnish race car driver
• 1942 – Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese politician
• 1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor
• 1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress (Labelle)
• 1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Steven Norris, English politician
• 1945 – Richard Ottaway, English lieutenant and politician
• 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
• 1946 – Tansu Çiller Turkish economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1946 – Irena Szewińska, Russian-Polish sprinter
• 1946 – Jeremy Treglown, English author, critic, and academic
• 1947 – Albert Bouchard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1947 – Mike De Leon, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
• 1947 – Waddy Wachtel, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
• 1948 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1948 – James Cosmo, Scottish actor
• 1949 – Hubert Birkenmeier, German-American soccer player and coach
• 1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor
• 1949 – Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician and academic
• 1950 – Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Vivian Ramsey, English engineer and judge
• 1950 – Larry Seidlin, American judge
• 1950 – Terry Scott Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer (Daniel Amos, Swirling Eddies, and Lost Dogs)
• 1952 – Sybil Danning, Austrian actress
• 1953 – Nell Campbell, Australian-American actress and singer
• 1953 – Alfred Molina, English actor and producer
• 1953 – Klaus-Günter Stade, German footballer
• 1953 – Richard Wilson, English sculptor
• 1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1955 – David Leonard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Richard B. Bernstein, American historian and educator
• 1956 – Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Cameo and Black Ivory)
• 1956 – Dominic Grieve, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1956 – Michael Jackson, Irish archbishop
• 1956 – Zaid Shakir, American author and scholar
• 1958 – Chip Ganassi, American racing driver and team owner
• 1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• 1960 – Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)
• 1960 – Doug Jones, American actor
• 1960 – Paul McCreesh, English conductor
• 1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English-French actress
• 1961 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Alain Lemieux, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1962 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer (d. 2012)
• 1962 – Stephen Otter, English police officer
• 1962 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Lois Ayres, American porn actress
• 1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver
• 1963 – Michael Chabon, American author
• 1963 – Joe Dumars, American basketball player
• 1963 – Rich Rodriguez, American football player and coach
• 1964 – Liz McColgan, Scottish schoolteacher and Olympic runner
• 1964 – Adrian Moorhouse, English swimmer
• 1964 – Isidro Pérez, Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1965 – Jens Becker, German bass player (Grave Digger, Running Wild, and X-Wild)
• 1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Eric Cantona, French footballer, manager, and actor
• 1966 – Ricky Craven, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1966 – Russell Kun, Nauruan lawyer and politician
• 1967 – Dana Ashbrook, American actor
• 1967 – Andrey Borodin, Russian-English economist and businessman
• 1967 – Eric Close, American actor
• 1967 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2011)
• 1967 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1967 – Steven Shane McDonald, American bass player and actor (Redd Kross, Off!, and Green and Yellow TV)
• 1967 – Bruno Putzulu, French actor
• 1967 – Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor
• 1968 – Mo Willems, American author and illustrator
• 1969 – Jacob Rees-Mogg, English politician
• 1969 – Rich Robinson, American guitarist and songwriter (The Black Crowes)
• 1970 – Tommy Page, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Greg Berlanti, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Joanna Wiśniewska, Polish discus thrower
• 1973 – Rodrigo, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1973 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer, dancer, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Bartolo Colón, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1973 – Shirish Kunder, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Dermot O'Leary, English radio and television host
• 1973 – Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer and manager
• 1974 – Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor
• 1974 – Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Magnus Manske, Wikipedian
• 1974 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Marc Gagnon, Canadian speed skater
• 1975 – Giannis Goumas, Greek footballer and coach
• 1975 – Maria Lawson, English singer
• 1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Italian-American singer and keyboard player (Modwheelmood, SONOIO, Blindoldfreak, and Nine Inch Nails)
• 1976 – Catherine Cox, New Zealand-Australian netball player
• 1976 – Bob Maesen, Belgian canoe racer
• 1977 – Prince Poppycock, American tenor
• 1977 – Kym Valentine, Australian actress
• 1978 – Elijah Burke, American wrestler
• 1978 – Brian Ching, American soccer player and coach
• 1978 – Bryan Greenberg, American actor and singer
• 1978 – Johan Holmqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1978 – Jo Joyner, English actress
• 1978 – Brad Penny, American baseball player
• 1979 – Amelia Cooke, American actress
• 1979 – Manuel Cortez, Portuguese-German actor and photographer
• 1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• 1979 – Kareem McKenzie, American football player
• 1979 – Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Jason Babin, American football player
• 1980 – Owen Benjamin, American comedian and actor
• 1980 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1980 – Jenn Korbee, American singer and actress (Hi-5)
• 1980 – Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Billy L. Sullivan, American actor
• 1981 – Sayaka Ando, Japanese model
• 1981 – Nic Hill, American director and producer
• 1981 – Marketa Janska, Czech model
• 1981 – Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Jerod Mixon, American actor
• 1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 – DaMarcus Beasley, American soccer player
• 1982 – Rian Wallace, American football player
• 1983 – Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 – Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist
• 1983 – Ricky Mabe, Canadian actor and director
• 1983 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)
• 1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress
• 1984 – Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Brodney Pool, American football player
• 1984 – Ryan Wieber, American director and special effects designer
• 1985 – Tim Bridgman, English race car driver
• 1986 – Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor (Ballas Hough Band)
• 1986 – Giannis Kondoes, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
• 1987 – Jimena Barón, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1987 – Déborah François, Belgian actress
• 1987 – Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Aiko Orgla, Estonian footballer
• 1987 – Matt Prior, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Monica Lin Brown, American sergeant
• 1988 – Kimberley Crossman, New Zealand actress and dancer
• 1988 – Billy Gilman, American singer
• 1989 – Andrew Jordan, English race car driver
• 1989 – Sam Kessel, Swedish actor
• 1989 – Adel Taarabt, Moroccan footballer
• 1990 – Catalina Artusi, Argentinian actress
• 1990 – Joey Logano, American race car driver
• 1990 – Yuya Matsushita, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
• 1991 – Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer (Cute and ZYX)
• 1992 – Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
• 1992 – Travis T. Flory, American actor
• 1992 – Ryan Leonard, English footballer
• 1992 – Rachel Victoria, Canadian actress
• 1993 – Oliver Davis, American actor
• 1993 – Rait-Riivo Laane, Estonian basketball player
• 1994 – Cayden Boyd, American actor
• 1994 – Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein
• 2001 – Darren Espanto, Filipino-Canadian singer

Deaths[edit]

• 1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083)
• 1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297)
• 1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335)
• 1425 – Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1362)
• 1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French commander (b. 1396)
• 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
• 1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563)
• 1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561)
• 1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
• 1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
• 1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
• 1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician (b. 1723)
• 1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
• 1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
• 1915 – John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
• 1941 – Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed the Lenin's Mausoleum and Kazansky railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Thomas N. Heffron, American silent film director (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 – John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Avraham Arnon, Belarusian-Israeli educator (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 1972 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 – Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 – Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1981 – A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds and Dillard & Clark) (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1992 – Joan Sanderson, English actress (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish-American actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Kurt Schork, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Rachel Kempson, English-American actress (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900)
• 2005 – Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Vivian Liberto, American author (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Jesús Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican murderer (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Rob Knox, English actor (b. 1989)
• 2008 – Dick Martin, American actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Jimmy McGriff, American organist (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Ray Alan, English ventriloquist (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Tapen Chatterjee, Indian actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Paul Gray, American bass player and songwriter (Slipknot and Unida) (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert, American businessman and activist (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Petr Muk, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Barbara New, English actress (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Huguette Clark, French-born American painter and philanthropist (b. 1906)
• 2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari Indian-Pakistani politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Klaas Carel Faber Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American journalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Jacqueline Harpman, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mark McConnell, American drummer (Madam X and Blackfoot) (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Ndombe Opetum, Congolese singer-songwriter (TPOK Jazz) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Lee Rich, American production manager and producer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist and historian (b. 1932)
• 2013 – John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Mark Selbee, American kick-boxer (b. 1969)
• 2014 – John Vasconcellos, American politician (b. 1932)

Eurovision Song Contest: Sweden's Mans Zelmerlow wins

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Swedish singer Mans Zelmerlow has triumphed at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, beating Russia's Polina Gagarina.

Zelmerlow won with his upbeat pop track Heroes, which was accompanied by innovative animated visuals.

Italy were third, followed by Belgium. Australia finished fifth in the country's first Eurovision appearance.

The UK's 1920s-influenced swing act Electro Velvet finished 24th out of the 27 participants with five points.

A record number of countries took part, including Australia - which was invited to compete for the first time to mark the event's 60th anniversary.

The top of the leaderboard:

• 1. Sweden. Mans Zelmerlow - Heroes. 365 points
• 2. Russia. Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices. 303
• 3. Italy. Il Volo - Grande Amore. 292
• 4. Belgium. Loic Nottet - Rhythm Inside. 217
• 5. Australia. Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again. 196

The bottom of the leaderboard:

• 24 - UK. Electro Velvet (above) - Still In Love With You. 5 points
• 25 - France. Lisa Angell - N'oubliez Pas. 4
• =26 - Austria. The Makemakes - I Am Yours. 0
• =26 - Germany. Ann Sophie - Black Smoke. 0

Electro Velvet said: "Obviously it is disappointing to finish on the right hand side of the board, but we have had the most amazing, brilliant, unforgettable time being part of this unique competition in this special year.

"We put our hearts and souls into representing our country and would like to thank everyone back at home and around the world that got behind us.

"It really means a lot and of course we also want to congratulate Sweden and Mans Zelmerlow on their well-deserved victory."

Zelmerlow was the bookmakers' favourite throughout the build-up to this year's contest.

"I'm so happy and I want to say thank you for voting for me," he told the crowd. "I want to say we are all Heroes, no matter who we love, who we are or what we believe in - we are all heroes."

It was Sweden's sixth Eurovision win - meaning they are now just one victory behind the contest's record holders Ireland, who have won seven times.

The result also means the annual extravaganza will be held in Sweden next year - just three years after it last hosted the show.

This year's contest was held in the Austrian capital's Wiener Stadthalle following Conchita Wurst's win last year.

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But this year, the hosts, along with Germany, finished with zero points - the first time since 2003 that any country has drawn a blank.

Russian contestant Gagarina was beaten by Zelmerlow after being neck-and-neck for much of the voting.

Italian pop opera trio Il Volo, who have enjoyed chart success around the world, finished third. Belgium's 19-year-old Loic Nottet managed fourth.

And it was a respectable night for Guy Sebastian, one of Australia's biggest pop stars, who came fifth after being sent to represent his country.

After the show, Eurovision organisers revealed there had been irregularities with the votes from the juries in Macedonia and Montenegro.

The points awarded by each country are normally determined by a combination of a jury and a public vote.

A statement said: "The jury results of FYR Macedonia and Montenegro for the grand final have been excluded after consultation of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the contest's independent voting observer, and upon the decision of the executive supervisor and the chairman of the reference group.

"In both countries, televoting applied for 100%. The exclusion of two juries will be further discussed in the next reference group meeting in June."

Around 200 million viewers were thought to have tuned in to the event on television, and it was screened live in China for the first time.

Μεγάλος νικητής της Eurovision ο  Σουηδός - οι δεσμοί του με την Ελλάδα 

Μεγάλος νικητής του 60ού διαγωνισμού της Eurovision 

αναδείχθηκε ο Σουηδός  Μονς Σέλμερλοβ.

O Σέλμερλοβ με το τραγούδι του-εκστρατεία κατά του bullying που πέρασε 

μικρός, αλλά και τη δυνατή και πρωτότυπη σκηνική του παρουσία κατάφερε να 

περάσει μπροστά από τα υπόλοιπα φαβορί.

Για αρκετή ώρα πήγαινε στήθος με στήθος με τη Ρωσία, ενώ λίγο πίσω ακολούθησε

 και η Ιταλία, αλλά τελικά κατάφερε και επικράτησε και μάλιστα με μεγάλη διαφορά.

H Σουηδία εμφανίστηκε στη 10η θέση και ο εκπρόσωπός της έχει δεσμούς με 

την Ελλάδα, αλλά και μια συγκλονιστική ιστορία ζωής. Ο Σουηδός Μονς

 Σέλμερλοβ, στο παρελθόν, δούλευε σε μπαρ της Ρόδου, ενώ έχει πέσει θύμα

 bullying και επέζησε από τσουνάμι.

O ίδιος κατά την ομιλία του πριν τραγουδήσει ξανά το τργούδι του ως μεγάλος 

νικητής δεν μπορούσε να συγκρατήσει τα δάκρυά του.

Η εκπρόσωπος της Ρωσίας Polina Gagarina, που ήρθε δεύτερη, έχει κι αυτή 

στενούς δεσμούς με την Ελλάδα, ενώ έχει ζήσει αρκετά χρόνια στη χώρα μας.

Τρίτοι πλασαρίστηκαν με το τραγούδι «Grande Amore» και την Αφροδίτη της

 Μήλου στο φόντο οι Il Volo από την Ιταλία, που εμφανίστηκαν 27οι.

Καταποντίστηκε η Ελλάδα στη Eurovision -Στη 19η θέση με 23 βαθμούς

Εξερεύνηση του βυθού της Σουδας -Τι κρύβει το ναυάγιο «Pier Luigi»

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• 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
• 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
• 1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
• 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
• 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
• 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
• 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
• 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the South American Wars of Independence.
• 1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
• 1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
• 1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
• 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
• 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
• 1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
• 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
• 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
• 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
• 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
• 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
• 1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
• 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
• 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
• 1961 – Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• 1961 – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
• 1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
• 1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
• 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
• 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
• 1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
• 1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
• 1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
• 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• 1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
• 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
• 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
• 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
• 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
• 2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
• 2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
• 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• 2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
• 2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.

Births[edit]

• 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of Song (d. 1085)
• 1334 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (d. 1398)
• 1458 – Mahmud Begada Indian sultan (d. 1511)
• 1572 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1632)
• 1606 – Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
• 1661 – Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and philosopher (d. 1737)
• 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island (d. 1776)
• 1749 – Gregorio Funes, Argentinian clergyman and academic (d. 1829)
• 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1841)
• 1791 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1841)
• 1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1873)
• 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (d. 1897)
• 1845 – Lip Pike, American baseball player and manager (d. 1893)
• 1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (d. 1900)
• 1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
• 1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (d. 1924)
• 1852 – William Muldoon, American wrestler (d. 1933)
• 1856 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
• 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (d. 1944)
• 1865 – John Mott, American evangelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
• 1867 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (d. 1950)
• 1869 – Mathilde Verne, English pianist and teacher (d. 1936)
• 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer and actor (d. 1954)
• 1878 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (d. 1949)
• 1879 – Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1964)
• 1879 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, English-New Zealand illustrator (d. 1960)
• 1879 – William Stickney, American golfer (d. 1944)
• 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
• 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian activist (d. 1945)
• 1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American miner and labor leader (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (d. 1968)
• 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1889 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (d. 1941)
• 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (d. 1978)
• 1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (d. 1971)
• 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Binnie Barnes, English-American actress and singer (d. 1998)
• 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet and academic (d. 1963)
• 1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Marie Menken, American actress, director, and painter (d. 1970)
• 1912 – Princess Deokhye of Korea (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (d. 1957)
• 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (d. 1965)
• 1916 – Brian Dickson, Canadian politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
• 1917 – Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Kitty Kallen, American singer
• 1924 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (d. 1974)
• 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician
• 1925 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1926 – William Bowyer, English painter
• 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (d. 2009)
• 1926 – David Wynne, English sculptor
• 1927 – Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1984)
• 1929 – Warren Frost, American actor
• 1929 – Ann Robinson, American actress
• 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Georgy Grechko, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1931 – Aili Jõgi, Estonian activist
• 1931 – Irwin Winkler, American director and producer
• 1932 – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (d. 1996)
• 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2003)
• 1932 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
• 1932 – Steve Rossi, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Romuald Klim, Belarusian hammer thrower (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• 1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer
• 1933 – Jógvan Sundstein, Faroese politician, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1935 – John Ffowcs Williams, Welsh engineer and academic
• 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player (d. 2011)
• 1935 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian author
• 1935 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Tom Phillips, English painter
• 1938 – Raymond Carver, American author and poet (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Margaret Forster, English author
• 1938 – Malcolm Innes of Edingight, Lord Lyon King of Arms of Scotland (from 1981–2001)
• 1938 – Geoffrey Robinson, English politician
• 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
• 1940 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer
• 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova
• 1942 – Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1943 – John Palmer, English keyboard player (Family, Eclection, and Blossom Toes)
• 1943 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
• 1944 – Digby Anderson, English journalist and philosopher
• 1944 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1944 – John Bunnell, American police officer, television host, and actor
• 1944 – Charlie Harper, English singer-songwriter, (U.K. Subs)
• 1944 – Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic
• 1944 – Frank Oz, English-American puppeteer, voice actor, and director
• 1946 – Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian race car driver
• 1946 – David A. Hargrave, American game designer, created Arduin (d. 1988)
• 1947 – Mitch Margo, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Tokens)
• 1947 – Karen Valentine, American actress
• 1947 – Catherine G. Wolf, American computer scientist
• 1948 – Marianne Elliott, Northern Irish academic, author and historian
• 1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scorpions)
• 1948 – Bülent Arınç, Turkish politician
• 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Caribbean-American author
• 1949 – Joe Unger, American actor
• 1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, English painter and illustrator
• 1951 – Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American businessman
• 1952 – Nick Fotiu, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1952 – David Jenkins, Trinidadian-Scottish runner
• 1952 – Al Sarrantonio, American author
• 1952 – Gordon H. Smith, American politician
• 1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright
• 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator
• 1954 – Murali, Indian actor (d. 2009)
• 1955 – Alistair Burt, English politician
• 1955 – Connie Sellecca, American actress
• 1956 – Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
• 1956 – Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese wrestler
• 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer and producer (d. 2010)
• 1956 – David P. Sartor, American composer and conductor
• 1957 – Alastair Campbell, English journalist and author
• 1957 – Edward Lee, American author
• 1957 – Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Hillary B. Smith, American actress
• 1958 – Katerina Batzeli, Greek politician
• 1958 – Zahida Manzoor, English businesswoman
• 1958 – Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jam and The Style Council)
• 1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1959 – Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
• 1959 – Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
• 1962 – Ric Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1963 – George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, screenwriter, and producer
• 1963 – Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
• 1964 – Ivan Bella, Slovak colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1964 – David Shaw, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1964 – Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish actor
• 1965 – Yahya Jammeh, Gambian colonel and politician, President of the Gambia
• 1966 – Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
• 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
• 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster
• 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth, Eidolon, and King Diamond)
• 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Stacy London, American journalist and author
• 1970 – Sandra Dopfer, Austrian tennis player
• 1970 – Joey Eischen, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Lindsay Greenbush, American actress
• 1970 – Sidney Greenbush, American actress
• 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Octavia Spencer, American actress
• 1970 – Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
• 1971 – Stefano Baldini, Italian runner
• 1971 – Marco Cappato, Italian politician
• 1971 – Justin Henry, American actor
• 1972 – Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer (Tha Dogg Pound)
• 1973 – Al-Saadi Gaddafi, Libyan footballer
• 1973 – Demetri Martin, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1973 – Molly Sims, American model and actress
• 1974 – Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer (Home Cookin' and I Am)
• 1974 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1974 – Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer
• 1976 – Tarik Glenn, American football player
• 1976 – Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
• 1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
• 1976 – Sandra Nasić, German singer (Guano Apes)
• 1976 – Erki Pütsep, Estonian cyclist
• 1976 – Marcelo José da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
• 1976 – Miguel Zepeda, Mexican footballer
• 1977 – Karthi, Indian actor
• 1977 – Andre Anis, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
• 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
• 1979 – Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
• 1979 – Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1979 – Sam Sodje, English-Nigerian footballer
• 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
• 1980 – Jae Hee, South Korean actor
• 1980 – Joe King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fray)
• 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
• 1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 – Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
• 1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Polish footballer
• 1982 – Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan runner
• 1982 – Jason Kubel, American baseball player
• 1982 – Stacey Pensgen, American figure skater and meteorologist
• 1982 – Luke Webster, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Tiago Cardoso Fonseca Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Aleksandr Petrov, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Luke Ball, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – A.J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
• 1984 – Kostas Martakis, Greek singer and actor
• 1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player
• 1984 – Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter and actress (M2M)
• 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model and actress, Miss World 2005
• 1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress (2B)
• 1985 – Demba Ba, French footballer
• 1985 – Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
• 1985 – Alexis Texas, American porn actress
• 1985 – Tuğba Daşdemir Kocaağa, Olympian Turkish female skier competing in the alpine disciplines
• 1986 – Lauren Crace, English actress
• 1986 – Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
• 1986 – Neon Hitch, English singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
• 1986 – Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Moritz Stehling, German footballer
• 1988 – Elle Fowler, American blogger
• 1988 – JJ Hamblett, English singer (Union J)
• 1988 – Dávid Škutka, Slovak footballer
• 1988 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
• 1989 – Karel Tammjärv, Estonian skier
• 1990 – Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Bo Dallas, American wrestler.
• 1991 – Jillian Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1994 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast
• 1995 – Gabby Soleil, American actress

Deaths[edit]

• 615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)
• 675 – Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 652)
• 709 – Aldhelm, English-Latin bishop, poet, and scholar (b. 639)
• 992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
• 1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
• 1261 – Pope Alexander IV (b. 1185)
• 1452 – John Stafford, English archbishop
• 1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
• 1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
• 1595 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (b. 1567)
• 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
• 1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
• 1667 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish politician, 5th Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (b. 1620)
• 1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1600)
• 1693 – Madame de La Fayette, French author (b. 1634)
• 1741 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
• 1786 – Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
• 1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
• 1797 – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1719)
• 1805 – William Paley, English priest and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1849 – Benjamin D'Urban, English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (b. 1777)
• 1895 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman scholar, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator, and historian (b. 1822)
• 1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
• 1912 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
• 1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
• 1930 – Randall Davidson, Scottish archbishop (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
• 1937 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1939 – Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1873)
• 1942 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (b. 1902)
• 1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Marcel Petiot, French doctor and serial killer (b. 1897)
• 1951 – Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet (b. 1887)
• 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (b. 1913)
• 1957 – Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)
• 1968 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 – Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1974 – Ulvi Uraz, Turkish theater and film actor and director (b. 1921)
• 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli scientist, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1979 – John Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
• 1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Larry J. Blake, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1983 – Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Jean Rougeau, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Black Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish poet, novelist, playwright (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Chester Bowles, American politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Élie Bayol, French racing driver (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and politician (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Bradley Nowell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sublime) (b. 1968)
• 2000 – Nicholas Clay, English actor (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American singer and guitarist (The Mars Volta and De Facto) (b. 1976)
• 2003 – Sloan Wilson, American author (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
• 2005 – Graham Kennedy, Australian actor and game show host (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter, graphic artist, and draughtsman (b. 1909)
• 2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Laurie Bartram, American actress and dancer (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian and director (b. 1931)
• 2008 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman, founded Simplot (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Camu Tao, American rapper and producer (The Weathermen) (b. 1977)
• 2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
• 2010 – Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Alan Hickinbotham, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African tenor (b. 1975)
• 2010 – Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (b. 1965)
• 2011 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1944)
• 2012 – R. Dilip, Indian actor (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Keith Gardner, Jamaican sprinter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – William Hanley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Peter D. Sieruta, American author and critic (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Beatrice Sparks, American therapist and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Lou Watson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Tyrone Brunson, American singer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Gene Burns, American radio host (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Mahendra Karma, Indian politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Marshall Lytle, American bass player and songwriter (Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars) (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1953)
• 2013 – T. M. Soundararajan, Indian singer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jimmy Wray, Scottish politician (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Lewis Yocum, American surgeon (b. 1947)
• 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Lee Chamberlin, American actress (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Bertha Gilkey, American activist (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
• 2014 – Toaripi Lauti, Tuvaluan politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Matthew Saad Muhammad, American boxer (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (b. 1929)

Πωλητήριο σε εντυπωσιακό, ιταλικό κάστρο του 14ου αιώνα

Ένα εντυπωσιακό ιταλικό κάστρο, που κάποτε ανήκε στον Πάπα και αποτελεί δημοφιλή προορισμό για… τραπέζια γάμων και επιδείξεων μόδας, έβαλε πωλητήριο με την τιμή να ανέρχεται στα 5,12 εκατ. ευρώ!

Το 700 ετών Castello di Tavoleto χρησιμοποιούνταν κάποτε από τον Πάπα και τους ευγενείς της Ούμπρια, προτού πωληθεί σε ιδιώτη το 1960, ο οποίος το ανακαίνισε πλήρως και το διατήρησε στη σημερινή του κατάσταση.

«Στο κάστρο βασιλεύει η αρμονία και αποκαλύπτεται η ισορροπία της φύσης σε κάθε γωνιά του» αναφέρει η εταιρεία που έχει αναλάβει την πώλησή του. 

Το κάστρο βρίσκεται σε απόσταση 12 μιλίων από τις πόλεις Rimini, Riccione και Cattolica στη Romagnola Riviera και μόλις μία ώρα από την πολυσύχναστη πόλη της Ανκόνα.

 Ο Ομάρ Σαρίφ πάσχει από Αλτσχάιμερ

Ο χολιγουντιανός ηθοποιός Ομάρ Σαρίφ πάσχει από τη νόσο

 του Αλτσχάιμερ και αγωνίζεται να θυμηθεί τις πιο διάσημες

 ταινίες του, όπως έχει αποκαλύψει ο γιος του.

Ο 83χρονος, αιγυπτιακής καταγωγής, ηθοποιός, του οποίου η φήμη εκτοξεύτηκε

 το 1962, όταν πρωταγωνίστησε στον Λόρενς της Αραβίας και αργότερα το 1965 

στον Δόκτωρα Ζιβάγκο, χτυπήθηκε από την ασθένεια τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια.

Ο γιος του, Τάρεκ Ελ-Σαρίφ, αποκάλυψε πως ο πατέρας του έχει αποσυρθεί από 

την υποκριτική λόγω της ασθένειας, καθώς πλέον συγχέει τα ονόματα των πιο

 διάσημων ταινιών και έχει ξεχάσει που γυρίστηκαν.

Μιλώντας στην ισπανική εφημερίδα «El Mundo», ο γιος του Ομάρ Σαρίφ δήλωσε: 

«Ο πατέρας μου έχει Αλτσχάιμερ. Είναι δύσκολο να προσδιοριστεί σε ποιο στάδιο είναι.

 Το προφανές είναι ότι ποτέ δεν θα βελτιωθεί και θα.. χειροτερεύει».

«Υπάρχουν στιγμές της ημέρας, που είναι καλύτερα και άλλες που αισθάνεται

 σύγχυση. Ξέρει ποιος είναι, αλλά δεν καταλαβαίνει για ποιο λόγο οι άνθρωποι τον

 αναγνωρίζουν και τον χαιρετάνε. Όταν κάποιος τον πλησιάζει στον δρόμο, συχνά

 νομίζει ότι είναι κάποιος που τον ήξερε και τον έχει ξεχάσει, ενώ μπορεί απλά να

 είναι ένας θαυμαστής».

Όπως λέει ο γιος του, ο Ομάρ Σαρίφ γνωρίζει ότι είναι ένας διάσημος ηθοποιός.

 «Η απώλεια της μνήμης επηρεάζει πάνω από όλα συγκεκριμένα πράγματα, 

λεπτομέρειες, όπως την επίσκεψή του σε κάποιο μέρος ή την συμμετοχή του σε

 μία ταινία. Θυμάται για παράδειγμα, ότι έπαιξε στον Δόκτωρ Ζιβάγκο αλλά έχει

 ξεχάσει πότε γυρίστηκε».

Αρνείται ότι είναι άρρωστος

Ο Eλ-Σαρίφ, το μόνο παιδί από τον γάμο του ηθοποιού με την Φατέν Χαμάμα, 

ομολογεί ότι ο πατέρας του δεν αποδέχεται ότι είναι άρρωστος και αρνείται να κάνει

 τις ασκήσεις για να επιβραδύνει τη νόσο. Αποκάλυψε μάλιστα ότι ο πατέρας του

 ρωτάει συχνά για τη μητέρα του, ξεχνώντας ότι αυτή πέθανε τον Ιανουάριο.

Σε συνέντευξή του το 2013 ο Σαρίφ παραδέχθηκε ότι είχε την τάση να ξεχνάει

 πολλά πράγματα, αλλά το παρουσίασε ως κάτι θετικό, διότι, όπως είπε, αυτό 

σημαίνει πως δεν στέκεται στο παρελθόν και σκέφτεται το παρόν.

Τότε, ο εκπρόσωπός του απέρριψε τους ισχυρισμούς ότι ο ηθοποιός έπασχε από

 Αλτσχάιμερ, αλλά από υπερκόπωση.

Μάλιστα το 2009 ο Ομάρ Σαρίφ έπαιξε στην γαλλική ταινία I Forgot To Tell You,

 έναν πάσχοντα του Αλτσχάιμερ.

Κατά την προετοιμασία για τον ρόλο της ταινίας, που περιγράφει τη φιλία 

μεταξύ ενός ηλικιωμένου άνδρα και μιας νεαρής κοπέλας, είχε επισκεφτεί

 πολλά νοσοκομεία με ασθενείς που έπασχαν από Αλτσχάιμερ για να μάθει για 

την ασθένεια.

Φλώρινα: Η πρώτη κατασκευή Αεροπλάνου