November 27

Events

1914: Damaging earthquakes strike Lefkada.
1919: The Treaty of Neuilly is signed; Greece acquires Thrace from Bulgaria.
1921: Meletios Metaxakis, Archbishop of North and South America, is elected Ecumenical Patriarch. Meletios was labeled a Venizelist.
1925: Theodoros Pangalos tries to assert his authority by holding a publicly held hanging execution; Drakakos and Zafeiropoulos were executed for embezzling public monies.
1940: Maria Callas makes her first professional performance in the National Opera House, playing Beatrice in "Boccaccio".
1940: The Battle of Pogradec commences.
1999: Kakhi Kakhiasvili wins 3 gold metals at 94 kg the World Weightlifting Championship games held in Athens.
2004: The relics of Saint Gregory Nazianzenus are returned to Constantinople by the Roman Catholic Church.

1963: The players of PAOK walk off the pitch when the Bulgarian referee denies them an obvious penalty against Olympiakos. Olympiakos are awarded the match 2-0 (forfeit).