Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 7
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- 1837: The modern city of Sparta was re-established in the same location as the ancient city.
- 1919: The first Greek units landed in Odessa, Russia, as part of the Ukraine Expedition, in the Allies' effort to stem the tide of Bolshevism.
- 1931: The mutilated corpse of builder Dimitrios Athanasopoulos was found. This, one of the most heinous crimes in Greek annals, was later discovered to be the work of Athanasopoulos' wife and his mother-in-law.
- Births: Yiannis Papaioannou, composer, music teacher (1910), Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (1934).
- Deaths: Emmanuel Roidis, writer (1904), Napoleon Lapathiotis, poet (1944), Leon Karapanagiotis, reporter, newspaper manager (Ta Nea) (2006)
