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Ohi Day commemorates the rejection by the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on 28 October 1940 and the subsequent Hellenic counterattack against the invading Italian forces at the mountains of Pindus during the Greco-Italian War and Greek resistance during the Axis occupation.
Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Russian-Greek lawyer and politician, Governor of Greece (b. 1776) 1873 – George Ormerod, English historian and author (b. 1785) 1897 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818) 1900 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
2002 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (b. 1903) 2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian footballer and actor (b. 1916) 2003 – Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and historian (b. 1919) 2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist and engineer (b. 1920)
1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter; 1935 – Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist; 1935 – Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (d. 2017) 1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author [15] (d. 2021) 1937 – Alma Powell, American audiologist (d. 2024) [16] [17]
Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer.. The Greeks, as early as the time of Homer, appear to have been familiar with the division of the year into the twelve lunar months but no intercalary month Embolimos or day is then mentioned, with twelve months of 354 days. [1]
The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919.However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for the months.In modern Romania and Moldova, the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well.
Tsiknopempti (Greek: Τσικνοπέμπτη, romanized: Tsiknopémpti [t͡sik.noˈpem.pti]) is part of the traditional celebrations of Apókries (Απόκριες), [1] the Greek Carnival season. Tsiknopempti occurs on the second to last Thursday before Lent and can be translated as Charred Thursday or Smoky Thursday. It centers on the ...