Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 5
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- 1912: Greece used, for the first time, airplanes to drop bombs at Bizani
- 1940: Colonel Mardohaios Frizis (Μαρδοχαίος Φριζής), a Greek Jew , was killed near Premeti during the Greek-Italian confrontation. He was the first high ranking officer to fall in battle in World War II.
- 1969: A pacemaker was implanted for the first time in a heart patient in Greece.
- 1981: Adultery was decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery was revoked.
- Births: George Savalas, Greek-American actor (1926), Nikos Kourkoulos, actor (1934)
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