** Quadratus of Athens

** Athens, in the mysteries of Agrae.

** The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

** The U. S. Embassy in Athens, Greece comes under mortar fire.

** Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.

** General Grivas and his 10, 000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros ; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens.

** The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens, Greece.

** TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group.

** Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.

** Athens gets hit by a major blizzard which blankets the entire city for days, causing widespread havoc.

** Chiara Zorzi, regent of Athens

** Francesco II Acciajuoli, last Duke of Athens

** Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens ( d. 1311 )

** Ruins of Athens

** Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, Athens

** Temple of Olympian Zeus ( Athens )

** Competitions for tragedy are instituted at the City Dionysia festival in Athens.

** Cimon, major political figure in Athens and the son of Miltiades ( approximate date ) ( b. 510 BC )

** Eurymedon of Athens, general

** Eupolis of Athens, poet

** Hyperbolus of Athens, orator and statesman

** Apollodorus of Athens, Greek scholar and grammarian ( d. c. 120 BC )

** March 1 – Sulla captures Athens from the Pontic army, removing the tyrant Aristion.

** a peculiar pattern of dysarthria ( slurred speech, sometimes characterised by explosive variations in voice intensity despite a regular rhythm ).

** " My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs " – ( a transcript of a speech Richard Stallman gave about Emacs, Lisp, and Lisp machines )

** The Voice-provides speech synthesis & enhanced sound effects

** Phonetic transcription, the representation specifically of speech sounds

** New York Times Co. v Sullivan ( 376 US 254 1964 ): The United States Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing political figures cannot be censored.

** Nelson Mandela makes his " I Am Prepared to Die " speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.

** In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours ( which are true ) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

** Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ).

** In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a " Total War " against the Allies.

** British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivers her famous ' The lady's not for turning ' speech.

** President Kennedy delivers a revealing speech: The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association

** Adolf Hitler makes his first public political speech, in Austria.

** Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise speech.

** In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.

** WWII: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his " Stab in the Back " speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

** Swami Vivekananda delivers an inspiring speech on his paper at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

** Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan ( present day-Bangladesh ), delivers his famous speech in the Racecourse Field in Dhaka, calling on the masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** President Eisenhower delivers his " Chance for Peace " speech to the National Association of Newspaper Editors.

** In broad Cockney, and to some extent in general popular London speech, a vocalised is entirely absorbed by a preceding: i. e., salt and sort become homophones ( although the contemporary pronunciation of salt would prevent this from happening ), and likewise fault-fought-fort, pause-Paul's, Morden-Malden, water-Walter.

** Contempt for or negligence of exercising freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

** On the First Crusade, includes Guibert's version of Pope Urban's speech and impressions of Peter the Hermit.

** Edward Teller gives a now-famous speech on plasma stability in magnetic bottles at the Princeton Gun Club.