Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 3
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- 1850: The British imposed a blockade on Greece during the Pacifico incident.
- 1914: The Great Powers recognised Greek sovereignty over the newly-liberated Aegean islands except for Imvros and Tenedos which were to remain under Turkish rule.
- 1945: General Nikolaos Plastiras formed a government in the midst of the post-World War II crisis. His greatest achievement was the Varkiza Agreement.
- 1956: Constantine Karamanlis established the National Radical Union (Ethnike Rizospastike Enosis) political party.
- 1980: The 5-day work week was established for the public sector in Greece.
- Births: Alexandros Diomedes, economist, politician and Prime Minister (1875), Evgenios Spatharis, master of the shadow theatre (Karagiozis) (1924), Nikos Alefantos, football player and coach (1939), Angelos Basinas, Panathinaikos footballer (1976).
- Deaths: Dimitrios Ypsilantis, revolutionary (1832), Alexandros Papadiamantis, writer (1911), Georgios Drosinis, writer, poet (1951).