January 9

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Events

1938: Crown Prince Paul of Greece marries Princess Frederika in Athens.
1956: EOKA fighter, Kyriakos Matsis, is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.
1965: The Greek government officially announces that 4,000 Greeks were forced to leave Istanbul during 1964 - the year of the Cyprus crisis.
1979: Greek television begins broadcasting in color using the French system SECAM. It will later be replaced by the German PAL

Births

1944: Michalis Violaris, popular singer

Deaths

1853: Theophilos Kairis, educator
1876: Samuel Gridley Howe, philhellene

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