Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 16
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- 1943: The village of Kommeno, Arta prefecture, was destroyed by the Germans. 317 of its inhabitants were slain.
- 1960: Cyprus was officially proclaimed a republic with Archbishop Makarios III as president and Dr Fazil Kucuk as vice-president.
- 1974: Morphou was occupied by Turkish troops.
- 1974: Andreas Papandreou returned to Greece.
- Births: Andreas Stamatiadis (1935), footballer
- Deaths: Spyros Skouras (1971), Greek-American President of 20th Century Fox; Viki Moscholiou (2005), singer