Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 11
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- 1801: Ali Pasha ordered the execution by drowning of Kyra-Frosini.
- 1930: Kostis Palamas became President of the Athens Academy.
- 1944: Allied airplanes bombarded the harbour of Piraeus.
- 1979: Yiangos Pesmazoglou left the Centrist Democratic Union to form the Democratic Socialist Party (KODISO, Greek: ΚΟΔΗΣΟ)
- 1989: "Greece has transformed into an immense madhouse," states the President of the Hellenic Republic, Constantine Karamanlis, when talking about the political situation in Greece. (Η Ελλάδα μεταβλήθηκε σε ένα απέραντο φρενοκομείο)
- Births: Theodosius I, Byzantine emperor (347), Georgios Iakovidis, painter (1853), Nikos Kavvadias, writer (1910)
- Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Stauracius (812), Constantine IX, Byzantine emperor nicknamed "Monomachos" (1055), King Constantine I exiled monarch of Greece (1923), Grigorios Xenopoulos, writer (1951).
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