March 14

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Events

1489: The last Lusignan queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells the island to the Venetians.
1942: The Axis powers impose upon Greece a "loan" for their expenses in occupying the country. The loan was estimated in 1993 to be equivalent to US $9 billion of that time. The Axis powers promised to repay the loan "in the future".
1957: Evagoras Pallikaridis is hanged in the Central Jail of Lefkosia.
1969: April 21 becomes a national holiday.
1998: PM Costas Simitis announces the devaluation of the drachma by 14%.

Births

1772: Georgakis Olympios, revolutionary
1939: Stavros Xarchakos, composer
1944: Mariza Koch, singer

Deaths

1957: Evagoras Pallikaridis, EOKA fighter, aged 19.

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