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1792: Ali Pasha attacks Souli but is repelled. Souliote leader, Lambros Tzavelas, is killed in the battle.
1872: Epameinondas Deligeorgis forms a government.
1903: Bulgarian nationalists revolt in Macedonia. This revolt would go down in history as the "Elias Day" ("Ilin Den") revolt as it took place on the feast day of the Prophet Elias.
1930: PM Eleftherios Venizelos inaugurates the underground station of Omonia Square.
1938: A strong earthquake (6.0 on the Richter scale) strikes Oropos in northern Attica, killing 18 persons.
1974: Turkey invades Cyprus.
1995: Turkish-Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, threatens to declare union of the militarily-occupied northern part of Cyprus with Turkey, should the Republic of Cyprus join the European Union.

2008: Stella Papadopoulou breaks the Greek women's record for the hammer throw with 72.10m.

1792: Lambros Tzavelas, Souliote leader
1908: Dimitrios Vikelas, author, first President of the International Olympic Committee.
1928: Kostas Karyotakis, poet - a suicide
1970: Panagiotis Pipinelis, politician, Prime Minister
1989: Yiannis Tsarouchis, painter
2002: Michalis Kritikopoulos, footballer

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 ==Deaths==
+*[[1792]]:  [[Lambros Tzavelas]], [[Souli]]ote leader
 *[[1908]]: [[Dimitrios Vikelas]], author, first President of the International Olympic Committee.
 *[[1928]]: [[Kostas Karyotakis]], poet - a suicide