Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 8
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- 1907: Panepistimiou Street in Athens was paved.
- 1944: Lela Karayianni, leader of the "Bouboulina" resistance movement, was executed by the Germans.
- 1960: Crown Prince Constantine won gold at the Rome Olympiad in Dragon class sailing. His crew consisted of Odysseus Eskitzoglou and Giorgos Zaimis.
- Deaths: Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor (780), Lela Karayianni, resistance leader (1944)
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