Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 29
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- 1823: Lord Byron arrived in Messolonghi.
- 1924: The Municipal Police Force was established in Athens.
- 1940: As the situation on the Albanian Front got worse for the Italian forces, Mussolini replaced General Ubaldo Soddu with General Ugo Cavallero.
- 1953: Greece replaced the oka with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight.
- 1966: Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Kotzamanis were found guilty of "grievous bodily injuries" in the Grigorios Lambrakis trial in Thessaloniki. All the other accused are unanimously acquitted.
- 1998: The governments of Greece and Cyprus decided to proceed with the installation of Russian made antiballistic missiles S-300 in Crete, ignoring Turkey's strong objections and reactions.
- Births: Elias Sapanis, footballer (1973)
- Deaths: Photius II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1935)
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