February 24

Events

391: Emperor Theodosius I outlaws paganism.
1931: Athenagoras becomes Archbishop of North and South America.
1948: American General James Van Fleet arrives in Greece to assist the national forces against the Democratic Army of Greece in the Greek Civil War.
1975: An attempted coup d'etat against the Karamanlis government is foiled. As many of the officers involved were arrested in the middle of the night, this goes down in history as the "Pyjamas coup d'etat".
1981: An earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale) strikes NE of Peloponnesus near Athens.