Events
1770 : Greek forces under Skyloyiannis Mavromichalis are overwhelmed, after a heroic resistance, by the Turks at Melipyrgos , Messinia , during the "Orlov Events ".1911 : A major earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) strikes Thera and the surrounding area.1919 : The Battleship Georgios Averof enters Smyrna harbour with 50,000 Greeks wildly cheering on the quay.1944 : The village of Drosopigi in Florina prefecture , Macedonia , Greece, is totally destroyed by German occupation troops.1946 : Panagiotis Poulitsas forms a government.1968 : In the Panathenaic Stadium , before 80,000 fans, AEK defeat Slavia Prague 89-82 and win the European Cup-winners Cup of Basketball.1995 : Greek Minister of Defence , Gerasimos Arsenis , declares that further Turkish intervention in Cyprus would constitute "Causus belli" for Greece.2012 : 77-year old pensioner, Dimitris Christoulas, shoots himself dead in Syntagma Square Athens , not far from the Hellenic Parliament . Christoulas feared the austerity measures would leave him "scavenging for food in garbage cans".
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