A look back through the Famagusta Gazette archives, focusing on events from this day in history in the Mediterranean region.
The Kalavryta massacre, or the Holocaust of Kalavryta, was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, Axis-occupied Greece, by the 117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) during World War [Read More]
1969: The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three [Read More]
World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, [Read More]
On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others. 39 of those killed were police officers, [Read More]
Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O’Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. British, Empire and Commonwealth forces attacked Italian forces of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo [Read More]
1969: Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history. All 85 passengers and 5 crew on board died in [Read More]
Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States was [Read More]
On December 6, 2017, then-U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and ordered the planning of the relocation of Israel’s U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to [Read More]
1914: The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the [Read More]
1917: After drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Finnish Senate headed by P. E. Svinhufvud submitted to the Parliament of Finland a proposal for the form of government of the Republic of Finland and issued [Read More]
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