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*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in [[Thessaloniki]]. He will die five days later.
 
*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in [[Thessaloniki]]. He will die five days later.
 
*[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively sold piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
 
*[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively sold piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
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*[[1960]]: [[Kostas Sfikas]] breaks the Greek record in the [[triple jump]] with 15.45m.
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==

Revision as of 07:42, August 29, 2009

Events

  • 1453: A lunar eclipse occurs while Constantinople is under siege by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantines take it as a bad omen since an old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing.
  • 1825: Laskarina Bouboulina, heroine of the Greek War of Independence, is shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
  • 1925: Constantine VI resigns as Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • 1947: The Truman Doctrine was enacted as US Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
  • 1963: MP Grigoris Lambrakis is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in Thessaloniki. He will die five days later.
  • 2006: The 19th century painting The Naughty Grandchild by Nikiforos Lytras became the most expensively sold piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.

Sports

Births

Deaths