Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 16
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- 1992: Andreas Papandreou was acquitted by a 7-6 vote of a Special Court of the Bank of Crete scandal. His cohorts, Dimitris Tsovolas and Giorgos Petsos, were found guilty.
- 1996: PM Andreas Papandreou retired from office due to poor health.
- 2005: A wave of extreme weather conditions (thunderstorms, snowfall and 10 Beaufort gales) cost the lives of two persons: a football fan, 55-year-old Stamatis Georgioudakis, crushed by a metal door in Xanthi Stadium and a passenger of a snow-plough who was electrocuted when his vehicle got tangled with a severed live wire at the Chalkida - Edipsos National Highway.
- Births: Archbishop of Athens and all Greece Christodoulos (1939).
- Deaths: Dimitris Horn, actor (1998).
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