Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 31
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- 1934: Jim Londos beat Joe Savoldi in a one-fall match in Chicago. The crowd of 20.000 was one of the largest to watch a wrestling match
- 1969: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece purged Antonis Brillakis and Babis Drakopoulos.
- 1996: Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over the uninhabited Imia islands.
- Births: Traianos Dellas, footballer (1976), Elena Paparizou, singer (1982)
- Deaths: Alexander Ypsilantis, revolutionary (1828), Georgios Kondilis, general, politician (1936), Kostas Moundakis, Cretan musician (1991)
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