• 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
• 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
• 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
• 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
• 1812 – War of 1812: Seventeen Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
• 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
• 1858 – Denver, Colorado, is founded.
• 1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
• 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
• 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
• 1931 – Al-Mina'a SC was founded in Iraq.
• 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
• 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
• 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
• 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot dead two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President upon Kennedy's death.
• 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
• 1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
• 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
• 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• 1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
• 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
• 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
• 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 1995 – A 7.3 M_W earthquake strikes Gulf of Aqaba between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia, the largest tectonic event in the area for many decades.
• 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
• 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.

Births[edit]

• 1515 – Mary of Guise (d. 1560)
• 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1610)
• 1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
• 1635 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672)
• 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760)
• 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American soldier and politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
• 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1784)
• 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824)
• 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794)
• 1728 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)
• 1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
• 1766 – Charlotte von Lengefeld, German author (d. 1826)
• 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and activist (d. 1810)
• 1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834)
• 1787 – Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1823)
• 1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)
• 1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893)
• 1819 – George Eliot, English journalist, author, and poet (d. 1880)
• 1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916)
• 1830 – Jhalkaribai, Indian soldier (d. 1858)
• 1845 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1875)
• 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter and academic (d. 1938)
• 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
• 1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)
• 1868 – John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
• 1869 – André Gide, French author and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955)
• 1873 – Alfred Bowerman, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1874 – Eugène Balme, French target shooter (d. 1914)
• 1875 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (d. 1960)
• 1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)
• 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934)
• 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919)
• 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general (d. 1922)
• 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969)
• 1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989)
• 1897 – Harry Wilson, English-American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
• 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)
• 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)
• 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
• 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator (d. 1942)
• 1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Ethel Smith, American organist (d. 1996)
• 1904 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach
• 1913 – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater
• 1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Mick Shann, Australian public servant (d. 1988)
• 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)
• 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Eugene Stoner, American weapons designers, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)
• 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, English priest and politician (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist
• 1930 – Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager
• 1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer
• 1932 – Ray Farabee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – John Bird, English actor and screenwriter
• 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic
• 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor
• 1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Roy Thomas, American author
• 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
• 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Youngbloods)
• 1942 – Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter
• 1945 – Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
• 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter (The Wailers Band and Bob Marley and the Wailers)
• 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman
• 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (Foghat) (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1949 – David Pietrusza, American historian and author
• 1949 – Andres Põder, Estonian archbishop
• 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
• 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
• 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (E Street Band, Steel Mill, and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
• 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club)
• 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager
• 1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (Propeller and Ruja) (d. 1994)
• 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
• 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Styx)
• 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
• 1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator
• 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host
• 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
• 1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
• 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor
• 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
• 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
• 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician
• 1960 – Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Carter USM)
• 1960 – Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Victoria Paris, American pornographic actress
• 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
• 1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
• 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
• 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
• 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian author
• 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator
• 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
• 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach
• 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer
• 1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1965 – Kristara Barrington, American pornographic actress
• 1965 – Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player
• 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager
• 1965 – Kristin Minter, American actress
• 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
• 1965 – Peter Safran, English-American producer and manager
• 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager
• 1966 – Mark Pritchard, English politician
• 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor and producer
• 1967 – Boris Becker, German-Swiss tennis player and coach
• 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and producer
• 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer programmer, created PHP
• 1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player
• 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
• 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
• 1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower
• 1971 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer
• 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist
• 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar
• 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
• 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015)
• 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
• 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach
• 1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer
• 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter (HIM)
• 1977 – Sydney Blu, Canadian DJ and producer
• 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hello Saferide)
• 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
• 1977 – Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1978 – Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer
• 1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Native Korean Rock)
• 1979 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
• 1979 – Eva Ódorová, Slovak table tennis player
• 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
• 1980 – David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach
• 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American businessman, founded Napster
• 1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
• 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
• 1981 – Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (A1)
• 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer
• 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
• 1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Steve Angello, Greek-Swedish DJ and producer (Swedish House Mafia)
• 1982 – Charlene Choi, Canadian-Hong Kong singer and actress (Twins)
• 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author
• 1982 – Fiona Glascott, Irish actress
• 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Sei Ashina, Japanese actress
• 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter (Trivium)
• 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
• 1984 – Eduard Folayang, Filipino mixed martial artist and wushu practitioner
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress and singer
• 1984 – Nathalie Nordnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 – Ava Leigh, English singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1985 – James Roby, English rugby player
• 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
• 1985 – Hande Doğandemir, Turkish actress
• 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter
• 1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
• 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
• 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, English-Swiss journalist and author
• 1988 – Suresh Guptara, English-Swiss author
• 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
• 1989 – Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Minehiro Kinomoto, Japanese actor
• 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
• 1989 – Valerie Weigmann, Filipino-German actress and host, Miss World Philippines 2014
• 1990 – Jang Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer (Infinite and Infinite H)
• 1991 – Diana Danielle, American-Malaysian actress
• 1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer and actress (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and High-King)
• 1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
• 1996 – Madison Davenport, American actress and singer
• 1996 – Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
• 2008 – Zeus, American dog (d. 2014)

Deaths[edit]

• 365 – Antipope Felix II
• 950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
• 1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
• 1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)
• 1392 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, English Duke (b. 1362)
• 1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1590)
• 1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
• 1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)
• 1794 – John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)
• 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
• 1819 – John Stackhouse, English botanist (b. 1742)
• 1875 – Henry Wilson, American colonel, journalist, and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
• 1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
• 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris Wheel (b. 1859)
• 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
• 1902 – Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)
• 1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu (b. 1837), Japanese shogun, 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate
• 1916 – Jack London, American journalist and author (b. 1876)
• 1917 – Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)
• 1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)
• 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
• 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
• 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Burt McKinnie, American golfer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1889)
• 1947 – George Knowles, Australian public servant (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Fakhri Pasha, Ottoman army and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919 (b. 1868)
• 1953 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (b. 1884)
• 1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)
• 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish-English author, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
• 1963 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (b. 1924)
• 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish female writer (b. 1936)
• 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1910)
• 1986 – William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
• 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English author, playwright, and composer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (INXS and Max Q) (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
• 2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Theo Barker, English historian (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Alberto Reynoso, Filipino basketball player (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Danielle Mitterrand, French activist, First Lady of France (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Frank Barsalona, American talent agent (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939)
• 2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Merle Barwis, American-Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1900)
• 2014 – Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Tamir Rice, American shooting victim (b. 2002)

Αρχαίος Ελληνικός πάπυρος με την Καινή Διαθήκη θα πωλούνταν στο eBay 

Ήταν τον περασμένο Ιανουάριο όταν ο Τζέφρι Σμιθ, ακαδημαϊκός

 που μελετά τον πρώιμο Χριστιανισμό από το Πανεπιστήμιο του

 Τέξας παρατήρησε κάτι ίσως παράξενο. Μία καταχώρηση στο

 eBay για έναν αρχαίο Ελληνικό πάπυρο με αποσπάσματα από το

 Ευαγγέλιο του Ιωάννη. Η τιμή εκκίνησης ήταν μόλις 99 ευρώ.

«Σκέφτηκα ότι αυτό δεν είναι κάτι που επιτρέπεται να πουλήσεις στο eBay», είπε 

στους New York Times ο δρ Σμιθ. «Απλά θα εξαφανιστεί σε μία ιδιωτική συλλογή», 

συνέχισε. Ο ίδιος ήταν εκείνος που επικοινώνησε με το κάτοχο του αρχαίου πάπυρου

 και τον παρακάλεσε να σταματήσει την διαδικτυακή δημοπρασία -πιθανότατα την

 πρώτη στο eBay για μία Ελληνική Καινή Διαθήκη σε πάπυρο, σχολιάζουν οι Times.

Η επιθυμία του έγινε δεκτή και έτσι ο δρ Σμιθ, στον οποίο ο ιδιοκτήτης του πάπυρου

 έδωσε τη δυνατότητα να τον μελετήσει, πρόκειται να παρουσιάσει τα αποτελέσματα

 της έρευνάς του.

Στο μέγεθος μίας πιστωτικής κάρτας το κομμάτι του πάπυρου χρονολογείται γύρω

 στο 250 με 350 μ.Χ και περιλαμβάνει από την μία πλευρά έξι γραμμές από το Ευαγγέλιο 

του Ιωάννη και ένα άγνωστο χριστιανικό κείμενο από την άλλη πλευρά. Αν η ανάλυση

 του δρ Σμιθ είναι σωστή, πρόκειται για έναν πάπυρο από έναν αχρησιμοποίητο

 κύλινδρο παρά για κώδικα τον οποίο προτιμούσαν οι πρώτοι Χριστιανοί, σε αντίθεση

 με τους Εβραίους και τους ειδωλολάτρες συγχρόνους τους.

Οι ειδικοί όμως υποστηρίζουν ότι η ανακάλυψη του αρχαίου ελληνικού πάπυρου με τον

 τρόπο που έγινε, φέρνει στην επιφάνεια μία ακόμα πτυχή, εκείνη που έχει να κάνει

 με την χρήση του διαδικτύου.  «Το γεγονός ότι ήρθε στο φως από το διαδίκτυο

 δείχνει την πραγματικότητα για όλους εμάς που ασχολούμαστε με τα χειρόγραφα και

 τα αρχαία αντικείμενα», λέει ο δρ Σμιθ που τονίζει ότι τα αντικείμενα τα οποία η

 επιστημονική κοινότητα μελετά και βραβεύεται, πλέον μπορεί να πωληθεί ακόμα και 

στο διαδίκτυο. Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι οι αρχαίοι ελληνική πάπυροι με την Καινή

 Διαθήκη είναι από τα πιο παλιά και σπάνια αντικείμενα που μπορεί να εντοπίσει

 κανείς, πράγμα που επιβεβαιώνεται από το γεγονός ότι έχουν βρεθεί μόλις 130 

αποκόμματα.

«Η ιστορία δεν ανήκει σε ένα άτομο», λέει από την πλευρά του ο Μπράις Τζόουνς που

 εξειδικεύεται στους παπύρους και προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει όσους πωλούνται μέσω

 διαδικτύου. Όπως τονίζει, οι πάπυροι θα πρέπει να είναι διαθέσιμοι για έρευνα και για 

να εκτεθούν στο κοινό.

Ποιος είναι ο ιδιοκτήτης του πάπυρου

Από την πλευρά τους πάντως και οι δύο ειδικοί επικοινώνησαν με το άτομο το οποίο 

θα πούλαγε μέσω διαδικτύου τον αρχαίο ελληνικό πάπυρο και οι δύο όμως αρνούνται

 να αποκαλύψουν την ταυτότητά του. Ο ίδιος φέρεται να τους έχει πει ότι τον 

ενόχλησαν συλλέκτες προσφέροντάς του παράλογα ποσά.

Αν και δεν είναι γνωστή η αρχική προέλευση του πάπυρου, σύμφωνα με τα στοιχεία

 που έδωσε ο δρ Σμιθ, αυτός πρέπει να ήρθε στην κατοχή του ιδιοκτήτη του πριν το

 1970 και έτσι είναι σε πλήρη συμμόρφωση με την σύμβαση της Unesco η οποία 

αναφέρει ότι τα πολιτιστικά αγαθά που αποκτήθηκαν νομίμως πριν από το 1970 δεν

 υπόκειται σε αξιώσεις επαναπατρισμού.

Σύμφωνα όμως με το κείμενο της καταχώρισης το οποίο αντέγραψε στο μπλογκ του

 δρ Τζόουνς, ο πωλητής αναφέρει ότι ο πάπυρος ανήκε στην ιδιωτική συλλογή 

του Harold R. Willoughby, ενός καθηγητή του πρώιμου Χριστιανισμού του

 πανεπιστημίου του Σικάγο ο οποίος πέθανε το 1962.

Όπως αναφέρει μάλιστα ο πωλητής στην καταχώριση, είναι συγγενής του καθηγητή

 και ανακάλυψε τον πάπυρο πρόσφατα όταν άνοιξε μία βαλίτσα με τα υπάρχοντα του

 Willoughby η οποία ήρθε στην κατοχή του 1990 και την οποία είχε καταχωνιάσει στη 

σοφίτα του.

Το απόσπασμα το οποίο περιβαλλόταν από γυαλί «έπεσε στην κυριολεξία από μία 

στοίβα γράμματα», αναφέρει ο πωλητής στην καταχώριση.

Ένα ακόμα στοιχείο που προκύπτει από την καταχώριση είναι το γεγονός ότι η 

τοποθεσία που έδωσε ο πωλητής ήταν το Νιου Χαμσάιρ.

Οι σημειώσεις του Harold R. Willoughby

Από την πλευρά τους πάντως οι επιστήμονες που μελέτησαν την έρευνα του δρ Σμιθ,

 υποστηρίζουν ότι πρόκειται για μία μεγάλη ανακάλυψη καθώς πρόκειται για μία 

περγαμηνή και όχι για έναν κώδικά.

Ένα ακόμα ιδιαίτερο στοιχείο που τονίζει μία άλλη ειδικός, η καθηγήτρια

 AnneMarie Luijendijk από το Πρίνστον είναι το γεγονός ότι και το κείμενο από το

 Ευαγγέλιο του Ιωάννη και το κείμενο που δεν έχει ακόμα αναγνωριστεί έχουν

 γραφτεί με τον ίδιο γραφικό χαρακτήρα και που δεν συνηθίζεται.

ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΜΟΥΣΧΟΥΡΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΑΣΑΛΙΑ

ΝΑΝΑ ΜΟΥΣΧΟΥΡΗ ΣΤΟ MEΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ

Οι Στίχοι του τραγουδιού

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• 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
• 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
• 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
• 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
• 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela.
• 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another island universe far outside of our own was first published in The New York Times.
• 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
• 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
• 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
• 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
• 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
• 1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child" (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the science-fiction television serial of the same name and the first episode of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
• 1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
• 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
• 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka.
• 1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave & mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
• 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
• 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
• 1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
• 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
• 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
• 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
• 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
• 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

Births[edit]

• 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
• 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
• 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
• 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
• 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1703)
• 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
• 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (d. 1720)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730)
• 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)
• 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)
• 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
• 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
• 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
• 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
• 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
• 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Albert Ranft, Swedish theater director and actor (d. 1938)
• 1859 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881)
• 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian-French painter and set designer (d. 1939)
• 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
• 1868 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
• 1871 – William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
• 1878 – Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
• 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
• 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor and singer (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
• 1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)
• 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
• 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian, author, and critic (d. 1999)
• 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
• 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Ceylonese civil servant (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986)
• 1907 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d. 2014)
• 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author (d. 2006)
• 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)
• 1916 – P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Paul Celan, Ukrainian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)
• 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author and poet
• 1924 – Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
• 1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)
• 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor
• 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author and educator (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
• 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
• 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
• 1928 – John Coleman, Australian footballer and coach (d. 1973)
• 1928 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer
• 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
• 1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
• 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French-American banker
• 1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
• 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
• 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
• 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
• 1937 – Graham Hearne, English lawyer and businessman
• 1938 – Patrick Kelly, English archbishop
• 1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• 1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager
• 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer
• 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
• 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
• 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach
• 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
• 1944 – Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director
• 1944 – James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and radio host
• 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
• 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
• 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
• 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
• 1946 – Bobby Rush, American soldier and politician
• 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host
• 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager
• 1949 – Tom Joyner, American radio host
• 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
• 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1949 – Jerry verDorn, American actor
• 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic
• 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic
• 1950 – Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1951 – David Rappaport, English-American actor (d. 1990)
• 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player
• 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author
• 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor
• 1953 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1954 – Pete Allen, English clarinet player and saxophonist
• 1954 – Ross Brawn, English engineer
• 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
• 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Other Ones)
• 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
• 1955 – Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author (Cats Laughing)
• 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
• 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician
• 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach
• 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor and singer
• 1959 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1960 – Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist
• 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
• 1961 – Nicolas Bacri, French composer
• 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
• 1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Lance King, American singer-songwriter and producer (Avian, Balance of Power, Shining Star, and Empire)
• 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese murderer (d. 2004)
• 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
• 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet
• 1965 – J. T. the Brick, American radio host
• 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer
• 1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
• 1966 – Hannes Vanaküla, Estonian seer and mage
• 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach
• 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1968 – Robert Denmark, English runner and coach
• 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
• 1968 – Anthony Sullivan, English rugby player
• 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
• 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Üllar Saaremäe, Estonian actor, singer, and director
• 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Zoë Ball, English radio and television host
• 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
• 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and author
• 1971 – Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
• 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player
• 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host
• 1971 – Sajid Khan, Indian actor and singer
• 1972 – Chris Adler, American drummer (Lamb of God and Blotted Science)
• 1972 – Veronica Avluv, American porn actress
• 1972 – Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian footballer
• 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler
• 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
• 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper
• 1976 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
• 1976 – Cüneyt Çakır, Turkish UEFA Elite association football referee
• 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
• 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1977 – David Lucas, English footballer
• 1978 – Ali Güneş, German-Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (The Killers) (d. 2012)
• 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter (The Kills, The Dead Weather, and Discount)
• 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Kelly Brook, English model and actress
• 1979 – Hiroaki Iwanaga, Japanese model and actor
• 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1979 – Ivica Kostelić, Croatian alpine ski racer
• 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean-American soldier and author
• 1980 – David Britz, American nanotechnologist and engineer
• 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
• 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
• 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
• 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• 1982 – Namthip Jongrachatawiboon, Thai actress
• 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1983 – Thomas Pridgen, American drummer (The Memorials, The Mars Volta, and Trash Talk)
• 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
• 1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer
• 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
• 1985 – Scott Brash, Scottish horse rider
• 1985 – Mike Tolbert, American football player
• 1986 – Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Luigi Scaglia, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Snooki, Chilean-American actress and author
• 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
• 1988 – Saab Magalona, Filipino actress and singer
• 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
• 1990 – Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer
• 1990 – Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
• 1991 – Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 – Go Eun-bi, South Korean singer (Ladies' Code) (d. 2014)
• 1992 – Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1995 – Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer
• 1995 – Carolyn Duchene, Instagram famous meme queen
• 1996 – Lia Marie Johnson, American actress
• 1996 – Nicholas McDonald, Scottish singer
• 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
• 1998 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
• 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
• 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
• 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
• 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)
• 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
• 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
• 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
• 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
• 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)
• 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
• 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
• 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
• 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
• 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
• 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1762)
• 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1923 – Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1956 – William von Wirén, Estonian sailor (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Paul Newlan, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1974 – victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
  • Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
  • Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
  • Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
  • Asrate Medhin Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
  • Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
• 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1982 – Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)
• 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-English pilot, author, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
• 1994 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
• 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (b. 1939)
• 1998 – Dan Osman, American rock climber (b. 1963)
• 2000 – Brian Rawlinson, English actor and writer (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Rayner Unwin, English publisher (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2001 – O. C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
• 2007 – Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
• 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Juzefas Jurgelevičius, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek born American painter (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress and author (b. 1937)
• 2010 – James Tyler, American lute player and composer (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Go Native, Irish race horse (b. 2003)
• 2013 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Marion Barry, American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Clive Palmer, English banjo player (The Incredible String Band) (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943)

 Χριστούγεννα;  8 παραμυθένιοι χειμωνιάτικοι προορισμοί της Ευρώπης  

Σου αρέσει ο χειμώνας; Αντέχεις το κρύο; Οι ομορφιές της  Ευρώπης είναι πανταχού παρούσες και.. παντός καιρού. Καλές οι καλοκαιρινές διακοπές, καλές οι ανοιξιάτικες αποδράσεις και τα φθινοπωρινά city breaks, σαν τα χειμερινά ταξίδια στην  Ευρώπη όμως, με φουλ εξοπλισμό κασκόλ - σκούφο - γάντια - πέδιλα του σκι (εντάξει, το τελευταίο είναι optional), δεν έχει!

Δε χρειάζεται να είναι ντε και καλά ακραίες οι καιρικές συνθήκες, η  Ευρώπη άλλωστε είναι φημισμένη για την ποικιλία της και υπάρχουν χώρες που εμφανίζουν πολύ πιο ήπιο χειμώνα από άλλες (βλ. Μεσόγειος).

Δικαίως μπορεί να σκέφτεσαι τα έξοδα που συνοδεύουν μια χειμερινή απόδραση, δεδομένου ότι, τα τελευταία χρόνια, όσο πάει και.. ξεχειλώνει η Χριστουγεννιάτικη περίοδος - και μαζί με αυτήν, ανεβαίνει στα ύψη το κόστος για αεροπορικά εισιτήρια και διαμονή.

Όμως μη σκας, εάν το budget σου είναι χαμηλό, δε χρειάζεται να διαγράψεις τους χειμωνιάτικους μήνες από το ταξιδιωτικό σου ημερολόγιο! Ας μην ξεχνάμε ότι χειμώνας δεν είναι μόνο Δεκέμβριος, αλλά είναι και τέλος Νοεμβρίου, Ιανουάριος, Φεβρουάριος και λίγο από Μάρτιο.

Δεν μπορείς να κάνεις χωρίς εορταστικούς στολισμούς, λαμπιόνια και χριστουγεννιάτικες αγορές; Οργάνωσε το ταξίδι σου οριακά γύρω από Χριστούγεννα και Πρωτοχρονιά, για παράδειγμα τέλος Νοεμβρίου ή μέσα Ιανουαρίου και θα έχεις δύο σε ένα: Χριστουγεννιάτικο κλίμα και οικονομικές τιμές!

Το TravelKiki σήμερα σε ταξιδεύει σε 8 πανέμορφους προορισμούς της  Ευρώπης που αξίζει να επισκεφθείς το χειμώνα!

1.  Άμστερνταμ, Ολλανδία

Γιατί να πας

Εάν δεν έχεις πάει, μην πιστεύεις ό,τι ακούς για το  Άμστερνταμ. Ναι, στο κέντρο της Ολλανδικής πρωτεύουσας θα περπατήσεις στα στενά της συνοικίας Red Light District, ναι, θα βρεις coffee shops όπου εκτός από καφέ πωλούνται και διαφόρων ανορθόδοξων ειδών βότανα, μπορούν όμως αυτά τα χαρακτηριστικά να περιγράψουν μια μεγαλειώδη πόλη όπως είναι το  Άμστερνταμ;

Όταν βρεις εισιτήρια, οργανώσεις το ταξίδι σου και φθάσεις τελικά στην πόλη, κάπου ανάμεσα σε ένα special δείπνο στο εσωτερικό ενός αυθεντικού, κανονικότατου κάστρου, σε μια μαγική κρουαζιέρα στο ποτάμι και στο τέταρτο μουσείο παγκόσμιας τέχνης που επισκέπτεσαι στη σειρά, θα διαπιστώσεις πως το  Άμστερνταμ είναι πολλά, πολλά (πολλά) περισσότερα!

Ο χειμώνας στο  Άμστερνταμ είναι αρκετά κρύος, εάν όμως ντυθείς καλά, δε θα έχεις πρόβλημα να περπατήσεις ή ακόμα και να διασχίσεις με ποδήλατο την πόλη πάνω-κάτω, περισσότερες από μία φορές την ημέρα.

Επιπλέον, τα περισσότερα από τα κορυφαία αξιοθέατα της πόλης είναι ανοιχτά όλο το χρόνο, ενώ τη χειμερινή περίοδο διοργανώνεται πληθώρα θεαμάτων και εορτασμών παντού στην πόλη. Κοινώς, ετοιμάσου να δοκιμάσεις τις ικανότητες σου στο πατινάζ στον πάγο!

Δεν πρέπει να χάσεις:

Τη μοναδική αυτή ιδιότητα του  Άμστερνταμ, να απευθύνεται εξίσου τόσο σε φοιτητοπαρέες με αυτοσκοπό την ξέφρενη διασκέδαση, σε ζευγαράκια που θέλουν να ρομαντζάρουν, όσο και σε οικογένειες με παιδιά, δεν τη συναντά κανείς συχνά.

Σε όποια κατηγορία και αν ανήκεις, στο  Άμστερνταμ θα βρεις τόσα πράγματα να κάνεις και να ευχαριστηθείς, που αποκλείεται να βαρεθείς!

Γραφικά κανάλια, πλατείες και πάρκα, μουσεία τέχνης παγκοσμίου κλάσεως όπως το Rijksmuseum, τοποθεσίες ιστορικής αξίας όπως το Anne Frank Huis, φανταστικά τοπία, όπως το καταπράσινο Vondelpark και το γαλήνιο Begijnhof, η λίστα είναι ανεξάντλητη!

Πού θα μείνεις

Δες όλες τις επιλογές διαμονής στο  Άμστερνταμ και κλείσε δωμάτιο τώρα!

2.  Ζυρίχη, Ελβετία

Γιατί να πας

Λες και έχει βγει από τα παραμύθια, η  Ζυρίχη είναι μακράν η ομορφότερη πόλη της Ελβετίας, κατά την ταπεινή μας γνώμη. Πώς θα μπορούσε να μην είναι; Χτισμένη στις όχθες ενός ποταμιού και μία λίμνης, με την αχτύπητη θέα των Άλπεων στο φόντο, η  Ζυρίχη είναι μια πόλη με όμορφη αρχιτεκτονική, στενά σοκάκια και μεσαιωνικές εκκλησίες. Και ενώ στην όψη θυμίζει κάτι από μεσαίωνα, στην ουσία όμως είναι μία μοντέρνα πόλη της εποχής, προσφέροντας τουριστικές υπηρεσίες άριστης ποιότητας.

Ο συνδυασμός αυτός πόλης και βουνού - και όχι όποιου κι όποιου βουνού, μιλάμε για τις Ελβετικές Άλπεις παρακαλώ - καθιστούν τη  Ζυρίχη έναν άκρως ειδυλλιακό προορισμό για το χειμώνα.

Συν τοις άλλοις, είναι η μητρόπολη της σοκολάτας και δεν μπορείς εύκολα να κλείσεις τα μάτια μπροστά σε αυτό το γεγονός!

Δεν πρέπει να χάσεις:

Ο Albert Einstein πήγε για να διδάξει στο πανεπιστήμιο της  Ζυρίχης. Ο James Joyce για να γράψει το έργο του "Ulysses", η Johanna Spyri τη "Χάιντι"και ο Richard Wagner σαν πολιτικός πρόσφυγας. Οι ντανταϊστές έκαναν στέκι τους το Cabaret Voltaire και δημιούργησαν ολόκληρο καλλιτεχνικό κίνημα. Εσύ;

Εσύ δε χρειάζεται να κάνεις τίποτα από όλα αυτά. Οδηγός σου θα είναι η σοκολάτα, οι - Χριστουγεννιάτικοι ή μη - πάγκοι με τοπικές λιχουδιές, λουκάνικα και ντόπιο κρασί, τα συναρπαστικά μουσεία, η υπέροχη και άκρως φωτογενής αρχιτεκτονική, το ανελέητο shopping αν το αντέχει η τσέπη σου και η θέα στη Λίμνη  Ζυρίχη που κόβει την ανάσα!

Και ας μην ξεχνάμε το σκι! Εάν είσαι φαν του είδους, μόλις προσγειώθηκες στο ιδανικό μέρος.

Πού θα μείνεις

Ρίξε μια ματιά στα ξενοδοχεία της  Ζυρίχης και θα βρεις σίγουρα αυτό που ψάχνεις!

3.  Ίνσμπρουκ,  Αυστρία

Γιατί να πας

Μετακινούμαστε ένα τσακ πιο ανατολικά και από τις Ελβετικές, περνάμε στις Αυστριακές Άλπεις. Και εάν η Ζυρίχη είναι το ιδανικό μέρος για σκι, το  Ίνσμπρουκ είναι ο παράδεισός του!

Το σκι είναι ο Νο. 1 λόγος για τον οποίο συνήθως οι ταξιδιώτες συρρέουν τους χειμερινούς μήνες στο Ίνσμπρουκ. Με μακρά παράδοση στο άθλημα - το ήξερες ότι το  Ίνσμπρουκ διοργάνωσε τους Χειμερινούς Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες το 1976; - και μια απίστευτη ποικιλία από χιονοδρομικά κέντρα, ξενοδοχεία και εγκαταστάσεις, όπως είναι φυσικό, με το πρώτο χιόνι, σκιέρς και λοιποί χειμερινοί αθλητές τρέχουν να βρουν μια θέση κάτω από τον.. αλπικό ήλιο!

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Σε περίπτωση που δεν το έχουμε κάνει αρκετά ξεκάθαρο, το  Ίνσμπρουκ είναι ένα κι ένα για σκι (ω ναι!). Πες όμως ότι για σένα δεν είναι η πρώτη προτεραιότητα το σκι, έχεις λόγο να επισκεφθείς το συγκεκριμένο προορισμό;

Απαντάμε: Φυσικά! Το  Ίνσμπρουκ είναι μια ιδιαίτερα όμορφη πόλη με εξαιρετικό ενδιαφέρον και πλούτο αξιοθέατων και δραστηριοτήτων. Ενδεικτικά, ξεκινάς από την Παλιά Πόλη (Altstadt), συνεχίζεις με ξενάγηση στο βασιλικό ανάκτορο Hofburg και καταλήγεις για φαγητό, ποτό , καφέ και βόλτες στη Maria-Theresien-Straße.

Έχεις παιδιά; Πρέπει οπωσδήποτε να επισκεφθείτε το ζωολογικό πάρκο Alpenzoo! Δεν έχεις; Και πάλι, πρέπει να πας! Εκτός από τα ζώα που θα έχεις την ευκαιρία να δεις από κοντά, αξίζει να μάθεις ότι το Alpenzoo πρωτοστατεί έμπρακτα σε Ευρωπαϊκά προγράμματα προστασίας ειδών υπό εξαφάνιση.

Fun fact: Είναι ένα από τα πιο ορεινά ζωολογικά πάρκα στην  Ευρώπη - γι'αυτό βούλωσαν τα αυτιά σου!

Πού θα μείνεις

Έκλεισες εισιτήρια; Ήρθε η ώρα να οργανώσεις και τη διαμονή σου στο  Ίνσμπρουκ!

4.  Βιέννη,  Αυστρία

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Στη  Βιέννη όσες φορές κι αν έχεις πάει, πάντα θα θες να ξαναπάς. Είναι αυτή η αίσθηση ζεστασιάς που σε γεμίζει, όταν θυμάσαι τις βόλτες στη Rathausplatz με ένα ποτήρι ζεστό κρασί στο χέρι, την τούμπα που έφαγες προσπαθώντας να κάνεις πατινάζ στον πάγο λίγο πιο πέρα, ενώ δίπλα σου 5χρονα παιδάκια κινούνταν με χάρη πρωταθλητή.

Τα strudel που καταβρόχθισες στα ιστορικά Café Central και Café Landtmann, εκεί που κάποτε άραζαν προσωπικότητες όπως ο Sigmund Freud. Οι βόλτες στη Stephansplatz και στα αυτοκρατορικά ανάκτορα και η δροσερή μπύρα που κατέβαζες σαν νεράκι τα βράδια στην πόλη, παρά το κρύο!

Πρόσθεσε σε αυτά το χιονισμένο τοπίο και τη γιορτινή ατμόσφαιρα που σίγουρα θα πετύχεις αν ταξιδέψεις μέχρι και τα μέσα Ιανουαρίου και η  Βιέννη αυτόματα μπαίνει στο πάνθεον των ομορφότερων χειμερινών προορισμών της  Ευρώπης!

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Όλα αυτά που αναφέραμε και ακόμη περισσότερα! Όρεξη να έχεις να περπατάς στην Innere Stadt, να ανακαλύπτεις μουσεία και γκαλερί, να περιπλανιέσαι σε αυτοκρατορικά ανάκτορα και να αναρωτιέσαι πώς στην ευχή γίνεται να ζει κάποιος σε ένα ολόχρυσο δωμάτιο (!!!)

Από το σπίτι του Freud και τα ανάκτορα της Σίσι, μέχρι το εκπληκτικό μουσείο Haus der Musik και τα μουσεία-μεγαθήρια του MuseumsQuartier (υπολόγισε ένα τη μέρα, οποιοδήποτε άλλο σενάριο απλά δεν είναι εφικτό), στη  Βιέννη τα αξιοθέατα είναι αμέτρητα, οι ομορφιές ατελείωτες και η διάθεση για εξερεύνηση αστείρευτη!

Πού θα μείνεις

Σε όποιο από τα ξενοδοχεία της  Βιέννης σου ταιριάζει! Δες τα όλα εδώ.

5.  Λισαβόνα, Πορτογαλία

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Η  Λισαβόνα, συχνά παραμελημένη ως ταξιδιωτικός προορισμός, επισκιαζόμενη από άλλες διασημότερες Ευρωπαϊκές γειτόνισσες, είναι για σένα που δεν αντέχεις το πολύ το κρύο. Και για σένα, που δεν μπορείς με τίποτα τα τεράστια τουριστικά κύματα!

Με μια διάχυτη ήρεμη ατμόσφαιρα, γαλήνια αύρα και χαλαρή διάθεση, η  Λισαβόνα με τους επτά της λόφους και το παραμυθένιο της κάστρο, παραμένει αυθεντική, γοητευτική και γνήσια πανέμορφη.

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Στη  Λισαβόνα θα δεις, θα ακούσεις, θα φας, θα νιώσεις.

Θα δεις πανέμορφα τοπία και κτίρια ύστερο-γοτθικής πορτογαλικής αρχιτεκτονικής (το είδος λέγεται αλλιώς και Estilo Manuelino). Θα ακούσεις μουσική που ονομάζεται Fado, είναι παραδοσιακή πορτογαλική και μάλλον θα σου προκαλέσει μια γλυκιά μελαγχολία. Θα φας ζεστή σουπίτσα caldo verde, νοστιμότατο bacalhau και χοιρινό rojoes a moda do minho όπως δεν το έχεις φάει ποτέ.

Θα νιώσεις σαν το σπίτι σου!

Πάρε μαζί σου άνετα παπούτσια, ρούχα σε στρώσεις και ένα χάρτη για τα μέσα συγκοινωνίας στην πόλη - γιατί αποκλείεται να χάσεις τη βόλτα με το τραμ - και είσαι έτοιμος!

Πού θα μείνεις

Δες όλα τα ξενοδοχεία στη  Λισαβόνα και φέτος το χειμώνα δες την.. πορτογαλικά!

6.  Πράγα, Τσεχία

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..γιατί πολύ απλά,  Πράγα είναι μόνο μία!

Πολλά μπορεί να πει κανείς για την  Πράγα, ενώ αν προσπαθούσαμε να απαριθμήσουμε όλα τα αξιοθέατα της πόλης, θα έπρεπε να γράψουμε βιβλίο.

Αυτό που δίνει στην πρωτεύουσα της Τσεχίας την ιδιαίτερη γοητεία της, ο λόγος που ωθεί χιλιάδες ταξιδιώτες από όλον τον κόσμο να αναζητούν φθηνά αεροπορικά εισιτήρια για  Πράγα, είναι η φοβερή ιστορία που την ακολουθεί.

Τα τελευταία 1,100 χρόνια, η  Πράγα έχει περάσει τα πάντα, από εξεγέρσεις και εισβολές, μέχρι πλημμύρες και φωτιές. Έχοντας επιβιώσει από όλα αυτά, η πόλη διατηρεί έναν εξαιρετικά πολυδιάστατο πλούτο από αξιοθέατα, άριστα δείγματα αρχιτεκτονικής, ιστορίας και κουλτούρας που την κάνουν ασυναγώνιστη.

Πρόσθεσε σε αυτά την ασυναγώνιστη Τσεχική κουζίνα και τους φιλικούς κατοίκους - είναι σίγουρο ότι θα βρεις παρέες αμέσως - , βάλε και μια Χριστουγεννιάτικη νότα που θα "πιάσεις"με την άφιξή σου από Νοέμβριο μέχρι και Ιανουάριο και ιδού ο φετινός προορισμός σου!

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Η  Πράγα με τη γοητευτική Παλιά Πόλη και το Αστρονομικό Ρολόι, τη θρυλική γέφυρα του Καρόλου και το μνημειώδες Κάστρο της, είναι ό,τι πρέπει για μια χειμερινή απόδραση με στυλ, άποψη και χαρακτήρα - και χαμηλό κόστος!

Θα ξεκινήσεις από τη μοντέρνα πόλη και, πριν το καταλάβεις, θα έχεις φτάσει να περιπλανιέσαι στα σοκάκια της παλιάς. Θα περιπλανηθείς στην παλιά Εβραϊκή Συνοικία και θα ξαναγυρίσεις στην Παλιά Πόλη, για να δεις το σόου που δίνει το Αστρονομικό Ρολόι στην πλατεία.

Θα κάνεις βόλτα με την άμαξα και την άλλη μέρα θα φορέσεις τα πιο άνετα παπούτσια σου, θα διασχίσεις τη Γέφυρα του Καρόλου και θα εξερευνήσεις την αχανή συνοικία του Κάστρου. Θα ανέβεις στο λόφο Petřín, θα σκαρφαλώσεις στην κορυφή του "Πύργου του Άιφελ της  Πράγας"και θα παρατηρήσεις τα αστέρια μέσα από τηλεσκόπιο, στο παρατηρητήριο του Štefánik!

Και τέλος, θα περιπλανηθείς με τις ώρες μέσα στα στενά της πόλης, χωρίς να ξέρεις ακριβώς πού βρίσκεσαι - και χωρίς να σε νοιάζει!

Πού θα μείνεις

Εσύ πού θα μείνεις στην  Πράγα; Από ξενοδοχεία και B&Bs έως ενοικιαζόμενα και studios, θα είναι δύσκολο να διαλέξεις!

7.  Βουδαπέστη, Ουγγαρία

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Τι πάει να πει δεν έχεις πάει  Βουδαπέστη; Εάν δεν έχεις κάνει ακόμη αυτό το ταξίδι, τώρα είναι η ώρα! Η Βουδαπέστη είναι κι αυτή ένας ταξιδιωτικός προορισμός που απευθύνεται σε ένα αρκετά ευρύ ταξιδιωτικό κοινό.

Χτισμένη αμφιθεατρικά στις όχθες του Δούναβη, ενδείκνυται για ρομαντικές αποδράσεις, οικογενειακά ταξίδια και low-budget ολιγοήμερες εξορμήσεις.

Ιστορία, πολιτισμός, αρχιτεκτονική και φυσική ομορφιά συναντούνται στην πρωτεύουσα της Ουγγαρίας και τη φέρνουν ομόφωνα στη λίστα με τους καλύτερους προορισμούς μας, χειμώνα-καλοκαίρι.

Το χειμώνα όμως, η πόλη ντύνεται στα λευκά και αποκτά μια ιδιαίτερη αίγλη που κερδίζει "πόντους". Ντύσου καλά και ετοιμάσου για περπάτημα στις πιο όμορφες γειτονιές της  Ευρώπης!

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Στη  Βουδαπέστη, αν και είναι μια μικροσκοπική πόλη, όσες μέρες κι αν περάσεις δεν είναι αρκετές.

Θα ξεκινήσεις από τη Βούδα και θα ανέβεις στο Λόφο του Κάστρου, να δεις το βασιλικό ανάκτορο και να επισκεφθείς την Εθνική Πινακοθήκη. Θα κάνεις ένα θερμό λουτρό και θα πάρεις το τελεφερίκ για να γυρίσεις.

Θα συνεχίσεις στην άλλη όχθη, στην Πέστη, για να θαυμάσεις όμορφη νεογοτθική αρχιτεκτονική και να εξερευνήσεις την Εβραϊκή Συνοικία της  Βουδαπέστης, με συνταρακτικά μνημεία και πολύ ενδιαφέροντα μουσεία.

Θα πιεις καφέ στην Πλατεία των Ηρώων και φυσικά θα περάσεις μια βόλτα από το Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών, για να δεις αριστουργήματα του είδους.

Και θα βγάλεις πολλές, άπειρες φωτογραφίες!

Πού θα μείνεις

Στη Βούδα ή στην Πέστη, δες όλα τα ξενοδοχεία στη  Βουδαπέστη!

8.  Σάλτσμπουργκ,  Αυστρία

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Εάν σου αρέσει η ιδέα να περπατάς ανάμεσα σε κάστρα, μεσαιωνικά κτίρια, μπαρόκ παλάτια και καθεδρικούς, τότε στο  Σάλτσμπουργκ θα είσαι στο στοιχείο σου. Εάν απολαμβάνεις ιδιαίτερα όλα αυτά όταν είναι πασπαλισμένα με γενναίες δόσεις χιόνι, τότε μην ψάχνεις παραπέρα, εδώ είναι ο δικός σου προορισμός για φέτος το χειμώνα!

Εξαιρετικά δημοφιλής προορισμός και όχι αδίκως, το  Σάλτσμπουργκ θα σε μαγέψει. Δεν είναι άλλωστε τυχαίο ότι είναι η πόλη που ενέπνευσε το Mozart να δημιουργήσει τις μεγαλύτερες συνθέσεις του, καθώς και ο τόπος γυρισμάτων του θρυλικού έργου "The Sound of Music", με τη Julie Andrews.

Σου αρέσουν τα παραμύθια και τα βλέπεις όλα ρόδινα; Μην ακούς τι σου λένε οι φίλοι σου, παράμεινε στον κόσμο σου και ταξίδεψε στην  Αυστρία. Στο  Σάλτσμπουργκ, μπορείς να συνεχίσεις να πετάς στα σύννεφα ανενόχλητος!

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Πάρε χαρτί και μολύβι και σημείωνε: Θα ξεκινήσεις στην Παλιά Πόλη και θα περπατήσεις πλάι στο ποτάμι, πριν χαθείς στα μεσαιωνικά της σοκάκια. Μουσεία τέχνης, φρούρια και οχυρά, αλλά και ιστορικές τοποθεσίες, θα τις βρεις στο δρόμο σου χωρίς να καταβάλεις ιδιαίτερη προσπάθεια.

Όταν νιώσεις ότι πήρες τη μεσαιωνική γεύση που ήθελες, μπορείς να προχωρήσεις στη νέα πόλη του Σάλτσμπουργκ, αφού πρώτα απολαύσεις μία κούπα ζεστή σοκολάτα σε ένα από τα υπέροχα γραφικά καφέ που θα συναντήσεις.Σάλτσμπουργκ,  Αυστρία" width="590" />

Απαραίτητοι σταθμοί το ανάκτορο Mirabell και οι κήποι του - μη χάσεις τη Μαρμάρινη Αίθουσα, είναι πολύ πιθανό να πετύχεις κάποια συναυλία, από αυτές που οργανώνονται συχνά-πυκνά εκεί.

Πού θα μείνεις

Ψάχνεις να οργανώσεις τη διαμονή σου στο  Σάλτσμπουργκ; Δες όλες τις διαθέσιμες επιλογές και διάλεξε αυτή που σου ταιριάζει!

ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΜΟΥΣΧΟΥΡΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΑΣΑΛΙΑ

ΑΠΟΨΕ ΝΑΝΑ ΜΟΥΣΧΟΥΡΗ ΣΤΟ MEΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ

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• 380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
• 1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
• 1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
• 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
• 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
• 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
• 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
• 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
• 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
• 1877 – Anna Sewell's classic animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
• 1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
• 1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
• 1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
• 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
• 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• 1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
• 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
• 1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
• 1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
• 1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. Three hundred fifty-three people would die as a result of the storm.
• 1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• 1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
• 1963 – In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
• 1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
• 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
• 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
• 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
• 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
• 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• 1976 – The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
• 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
• 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

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• 1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester (d. 1284)
• 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (d. 1465)
• 1420 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English knight (d. 1473)
• 1583 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (d. 1641)
• 1594 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1651)
• 1615 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, German son of Magdalene of Bavaria (d. 1690)
• 1630 – Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (d. 1718)
• 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 1677)
• 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)
• 1690 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
• 1712 – Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (d. 1789)
• 1712 – Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (d. 1782)
• 1713 – Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (d. 1784)
• 1713 – Laurence Sterne, Irish clergyman and author (d. 1768)
• 1724 – Maria Amalia of Saxony (d. 1760)
• 1729 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (d. 1800)
• 1745 – Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1792)
• 1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, author, and educator (d. 1857)
• 1784 – Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
• 1801 – Ludwig Bechstein, German author and poet (d. 1860)
• 1806 – William Webb Ellis, English clergyman, created Rugby football (d. 1872)
• 1811 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1890)
• 1812 – Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (d. 1848)
• 1815 – Grace Darling, English lighthouse keeper (d. 1842)
• 1826 – Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (d. 1890)
• 1833 – Antoine Labelle, Canadian priest (d. 1891)
• 1849 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright and author (d. 1924)
• 1857 – Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (d. 1937)
• 1859 – Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (d. 1934)
• 1864 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (d. 1901)
• 1867 – Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (d. 1916)
• 1867 – Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (d. 1917)
• 1869 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Julius Martov, Russian politician (d. 1923)
• 1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (d. 1953)
• 1876 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect, designed Canberra (d. 1937)
• 1877 – Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)
• 1877 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (d. 1941)
• 1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1951)
• 1882 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (d. 1938)
• 1884 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer (d. 1915)
• 1885 – Christian Wirth, German SS officer (d. 1944)
• 1886 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (d. 1973)
• 1887 – Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (d. 1960)
• 1887 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (d. 1955)
• 1888 – Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist and author (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Daniel McVey, Australian public servant (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Charles F. Hurley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
• 1894 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1897 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mobster (d. 1962)
• 1899 – Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Larry Siemering, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Kirby Grant, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (d. 1975)
• 1912 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Joan Sanderson, English actress (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Charles Schneeman, American soldier and illustrator (d. 1972)
• 1912 – Barbara Sheldon, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Howard Duff, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (d. 2010)
• 1919 – David Kossoff, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1921 – John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator
• 1925 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish opera tenor (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist
• 1929 – George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1978)
• 1930 – Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician
• 1931 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
• 1933 – John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (d. 1998)
• 1935 – Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain
• 1935 – Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland
• 1935 – Mordicai Gerstein, American author, illustrator, and director
• 1938 – Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO
• 1938 – David Newell, American television actor
• 1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1938 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (d. 1959)
• 1940 – Paul Tagliabue, American lawyer and businessman
• 1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian author and educator
• 1941 – Pete Best, English drummer and songwriter (The Beatles and Lee Curtis and the All-Stars)
• 1941 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, and The Blues Brothers) (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian, actor, and singer (The Humblebums)
• 1942 – Marlin Fitzwater, American journalist, 17th White House Press Secretary
• 1942 – Andrew Stunell, English politician
• 1943 – Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit
• 1943 – Richard Tee, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Stuff) (d. 1993)
• 1943 – Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Incredible String Band)
• 1944 – Candy Darling, American model and actress (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian academic and diplomat, 9th Foreign Minister of Nigeria
• 1944 – Dan Glickman, American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1945 – Lee Michaels, American singer and keyboard player (The Sentinals)
• 1946 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
• 1946 – Penny Jordan, English author (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Tony Clarkin, English guitarist/songwriter (Magnum)
• 1947 – Dwight Schultz, American actor
• 1947 – Dave Sinclair, English keyboard player (Caravan, Hatfield and the North, The Wilde Flowers, Matching Mole, and The Polite Force)
• 1948 – Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic
• 1948 – Steve Yeager, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Shane Bourne, Australian comedian, actor, and television host
• 1949 – Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician
• 1949 – Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic
• 1949 – Linda Tripp, American civil servant
• 1950 – Roscoe Born, American actor
• 1950 – Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2015)
• 1950 – Stanley Livingston, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician
• 1951 – Chet Edwards, American businessman and politician
• 1951 – Margaret Mountford, Irish lawyer and businesswoman
• 1951 – Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player
• 1952 – Rachel Chagall, American actress
• 1952 – Norbert Haug, German journalist and businessman
• 1952 – Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Jim Sheridan, Scottish politician
• 1953 – Glenn Withrow, American actor
• 1954 – Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Margaret Wetherell, British social psychologist
• 1955 – Ian Botham, English cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster
• 1955 – Clem Burke, American drummer (Blondie, Ramones, The Adult Net, and The Romantics)
• 1955 – Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Culture
• 1955 – Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1955 – Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer and author
• 1956 – Sven Grünberg, Estonian singer-songwriter
• 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress and producer
• 1957 – Edward Stourton, English journalist and author
• 1958 – Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1958 – Alain Chabat, French actor and director
• 1958 – Margaret Curran, Scottish academic and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1959 – Todd Brooker, Canadian skier and sportscaster
• 1960 – Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer (Strength in Numbers)
• 1960 – Amanda Wyss, American actress
• 1961 – Carlos Carnero, Spanish politician
• 1961 – Arundhati Roy, Indian author and activist
• 1962 – John Kovalic, English author and illustrator
• 1962 – John Squire, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Stone Roses and The Seahorses)
• 1962 – Paul Thorburn, German-Welsh rugby player and manager
• 1962 – Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1962 – Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer
• 1964 – Garret Dillahunt, American actor
• 1964 – Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack and Another Animal)
• 1964 – Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show host
• 1965 – Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress and singer
• 1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor and actor
• 1967 – Henrik Brockmann, Danish singer-songwriter (Royal Hunt and Evil Masquerade)
• 1967 – Cal Eldred, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Todd Beamer, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
• 1968 – Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1969 – David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician
• 1969 – Rob Nicholson, American bass player and songwriter (Cryptic Slaughter and Danzig)
• 1970 – Doug Brien, American football player
• 1970 – Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1970 – Ashley Ward, English footballer
• 1971 – Brandon Molale, American actor
• 1971 – Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner
• 1971 – Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 – Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer
• 1974 – Dave Aizer, American television host and producer
• 1974 – Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer (Xtatik)
• 1974 – Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician
• 1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American author
• 1976 – Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
• 1977 – Colin Hanks, American actor
• 1977 – Olle Kärner, Estonian orienteer
• 1977 – Celaleddin Koçak, German-Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer
• 1979 – Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Beth Phoenix, American wrestler
• 1982 – Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player
• 1982 – Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player
• 1982 – Damla Günay, Turkish archer
• 1983 – Dean Ashton, English footballer
• 1983 – Lars Eckert, German rugby player
• 1983 – Meredith Henderson, Canadian actress and producer
• 1983 – André Laurito, German footballer
• 1983 – José López, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 – Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer
• 1984 – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier
• 1984 – Wolf Hudson, American porn actor and director
• 1985 – Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer
• 1985 – Tony Hunt, American football player
• 1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player
• 1990 – Sarah Hyland, American actress
• 1990 – Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 – Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater
• 1993 – Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter
• 1993 – Joe Pigott, English footballer
• 1994 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
• 1994 – Reece Mastin, English-Australian singer-songwriter
• 2003 – Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealand meningococcal disease survivor

Deaths[edit]

• 654 – Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (b. 596)
• 835 – Muhammad al-Jawad, Muslim religious leader born in Medina, 9th of the Twelve Imams (b. 811)
• 1072 – Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
• 1265 – Magnus Olafsson, Manx king
• 1326 – Hugh Despenser the Younger, English courtier (b. 1296)
• 1468 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402)
• 1531 – Johannes Oecolampadius, theologian and reformer from Electorate of the Palatinate (b. 1482)
• 1572 – John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (b. 1510)
• 1583 – René de Birague, French cardinal (b. 1506)
• 1615 – Sethus Calvisius, composer and theorist born in Thuringia (b. 1556)
• 1650 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1566)
• 1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikhs from Amritsar (b. 1621)
• 1722 – Johann Adam Reincken, Dutch-German organist and composer (b. 1623)
• 1741 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (b. 1688)
• 1770 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (b. 1685)
• 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1703)
• 1781 – James Caldwell, American minister (b. 1734)
• 1793 – Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French politician, French Minister of Finance (b. 1723)
• 1801 – Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (b. 1725)
• 1807 – Joseph Brant, American tribal leader (b. 1742)
• 1848 – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779)
• 1870 – Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1846)
• 1885 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (b. 1837)
• 1890 – August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1816)
• 1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840)
• 1920 – Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (b. 1857)
• 1920 – Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1870)
• 1929 – Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1841)
• 1936 – Lucio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
• 1943 – Doris Miller, American soldier and chef, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 1948 – Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (b. 1864)
• 1956 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (b. 1920)
• 1957 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1886)
• 1958 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1959 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (b. 1875)
• 1961 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress and singer (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939)
• 1964 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Louis Fratto, American gangster (b. 1908)
• 1968 – D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (b. 1942)
• 1973 – John Neihardt, American author and poet (b. 1881)
• 1980 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
• 1980 – George Raft, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist and academic (b. 1936)
• 1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Sinan Alaağaç, Turkish football player (b. 1960)
• 1987 – Jehane Benoît, Canadian author and journalist (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1934)
• 1990 – Fred Shero, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1990 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Bülent Arel, Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music (b. 1919)
• 1991 – Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter (KISS) (b. 1950)
• 1991 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibari-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen and Ibex) (b. 1946)
• 1993 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Eduard Ole, Estonian painter (b. 1898)
• 1996 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish soldier and poet (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Barbara, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Hilary Minster, English actor (b. 1944)
• 2001 – Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (La Bouche) (b. 1967)
• 2002 – John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Snowflake, Spanish gorilla (b. 1964)
• 2003 – Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (b. 1923)
• 2004 – James Wong, Chinese actor and songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Pat Morita, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2006 – George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Casey Calvert, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights) (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Kenny MacLean, Scottish-Canadian bass player and songwriter (Platinum Blonde) (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Chan Hung-lit, Chinese actor and director (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Abe Pollin, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Jun Ross, Filipino basketball player (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican boxer and singer (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Tony Leblanc, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Jimmy Stewart, American baseball player and manager (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Ernie Warlick, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (b. 1980)
• 2013 – Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
• 2013 – June Keithley, Filipino actress and journalist (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)

 τα 5  ελληνικά νησιά που μπορούν να ξετρελάνουν τους ξένους

H  Εύβοια, η  Κάρπαθος, η  Ζάκυνθος, η Θάσσος και η  Νάξος είναι τα 5 ομορφότερα και πιο υποτιμημένα νησιά της  Ελλάδας, σύμφωνα με την ιστοσελίδα EscapeHere, που προτείνει προορισμούς διακοπών σε ολο τον κόσμο.

1.  Νάξος | Σύμφωνα με το άρθρο, εάν κανείς θέλει να έχει μουσική εμπειρία από την  Ελλάδα, πρέπει να κατευθυνθεί στη Νάξο, ένα νησί γνωστό για τη μουσική του παράδοση. Ενώ το νησί διαθέτει όμορφες παραλίες αλλά και πλούσια ιστορία, η μουσική του νησιού ξεχωρίζει. Αφθονες βραδιές με ζωντανή παραδοσιακή μουσική.

2.  Θάσος | Ενδείκνυται για όσους αναζητούν διακοπές στην παραλία. Το νησί προσφέρεται για δραστηριότητες στη φύση και διαθέτει επιλογές περιπέτειας όλο το χρόνο, παρότι είναι περισσότερο γνωστό για την ποδηλασία βουνού.

3.  Ζάκυνθος | Μια ευκαιρία απόδρασης για όσους είναι ευαισθητοποιημένοι στην προστασία του περιβάλλοντος να γίνουν εθελοντές στην προστασία της θαλάσσιας χελώνας. Το νησί προσφέρεται για χαλάρωση αλλά δεν προσφέρει πολλές επιλογές σε νυχτερινή διασκέδαση και πολιτισμό.

4.  Κάρπαθος | Για όσους επιθυμούν να γνωρίσουν την ελληνική παράδοση και την ιστορία. Οι κάτοικοι εξακολουθούν να φορούν παραδοσιακά ρούχα και να μένουν σε παραδοσιακές οικίες.

5.  Εύβοια | Χαρακτηρίζεται ως αγαπημένος προορισμός των Αθηναίων ενώ, όπως αναφέρει το άρθρο, διαθέτει πληθώρα ευκαιριών ξεκούρασης και αρχιτεκτονικών μνημείων. Τους καλοκαιρινούς μήνες το νησί είναι γεμάτο Έλληνες ταξιδιώτες, και οι ξένοι ταξιδιώτες μπορούν να διασκεδάζουν παρέα.