Phantis:Selected anniversaries/July 19
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- 1826: Georgios Karaiskakis became commander in chief of Greek revolutionary forces in Roumeli.
- 1972: Bishop Demetrius of Imvros and Tenedos was elected Ecumenical Patriarch.
- 1993: The wreckage of an ancient Greek ship was spotted off the coast of Marseille, France.
- 1994: The oldest wreckage of a classical ancient Greek ship (ca 450 BC) was found off the coast of Kyra-Panagia in the Northern Sporades.
- 2004: The tramway reappearred in Athens after an absence of 44 years.
- Births: Georgios Iakovou, Cypriot politician (1938)
- Deaths: Stratis Myrivilis, author (1969)
