April 17
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Events
- 1944: Communist resistance group ELAS attack and annihilate EKKA, a republican resistance group. EKKA leader, Dimitrios Psaros, is captured and executed.
Births
- 1910: Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, politician, writer
Deaths
- 1944: Dimitrios Psaros, resistance leader
- 1974: Sotiris Spatharis, master of the "shadow theatre" (Karagiozis)
- 1985: Takis Miliadis, comic