Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 22
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- 1940: The Submarine Papanikolis, under the command of Lt.Cdr. Iatridis, sank the Italian sailing vessel Antonietta by ramming in the Adriatic.
- 1940: The Greek 3rd Division liberated Chimara during World War II.
- 1946: Exiled Metropolitan Makarios of Kyrenia - the future Archbishop Makarios II of Cyprus - returned to Cyprus to a tumulteous welcome.
- 1953: Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos brought up the Cyprus matter, for the first time, in a conversation with Anthony Eden. He was rebuffed by the British PM with the words "There is no Cyprus matter".
- 1966: The "apostate" government of Stephanos Stephanopoulos fell as the National Radical Union party withdraw their support.
- 1978: By law, the "sea flag" (nine stripes with a white cross on the upper-left quadrant) was established as the one and only flag of the Greek nation.
- Births: Emmanuel Olisadebe, former PAO footballer (1978).
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