August 14

Events

1954: Communist Nikos Ploumbidis is executed by firing squad for espionage.
1974: Turkish military launch the second phase ("Attila 2") of their invasion of Cyprus resulting in the occupation of one-third of the island's territory. 200,000 Greeks are displaced from their homes.
1996: Solomos Spirou Solomou is shot dead by Turkish troops at Derynia, Cyprus - he climbed on a flagpole, to lower the raised Turkish flag.
2003: The island of Lefkada is rocked by a powerful earthquake (6.4 on the Richter scale).
2005: Helios Airways Flight 522 air disaster