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*[[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.
 
*[[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.
 
*[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], heroine of the Greek [[War of Independence]], is shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
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*[[1922]]: [[Petros Protopapadakis]] forms a government.
 
*[[1925]]: [[Constantine VI of Constantinople|Constantine VI]] resigns as [[Patriarch of Constantinople]].
 
*[[1925]]: [[Constantine VI of Constantinople|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.
 
*[[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.
 
*[[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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*[[2011]]: Parliamentary elections take place in [[Cyprus]]. The [[Democratic Rally]] wins 34.27% of the vote and 20 seats in the [[House of Representatives of Cyprus|House of Representatives]]. The governing [[AKEL]] party comes in second with 32.67% of the vote and 19 seats.
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*[[2016]]: The [[Democratic Rally]] wins the parliamentary elections in [[Cyprus]] with 30.68% of the vote. The elections were marked by a very high abstention rate (32.6% of all voters) as voters elect, for the first time, eight parties in the [[Cyprus House of Representatives]] including the far-right ELAM.
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===Sports===
 
===Sports===
 
*[[1960]]: [[Kostas Sfikas]] breaks the Greek record in the [[triple jump]] with 15.45m.
 
*[[1960]]: [[Kostas Sfikas]] breaks the Greek record in the [[triple jump]] with 15.45m.
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*[[1994]]: [[Niki Xanthou]] breaks the Greek women's record in the [[long jump]] with a jump of 6.67m. The old record - 6.64m by [[Charoula Lambrou]] - had stood for 15 years.
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*[[2013]]: [[Apollon Limassol FC|Apollon]] defeat [[AE Limassol FC|AEL]] 2-1 in extra time to win the all-[[Limassol]] final of the [[Cyprus Football Cup]].
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==

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