November 5

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Events

  • 1821: First lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, Sir Thomas Maitland, expels all Greek refugees to prevent residents of the islands from giving assistance to the Greek War of Independence.
  • 1901: Students ransack the offices of Athens daily "Acropolis" in protest over the newspaper's publication of the Bible translated into modern Greek. The events surrounding the Bible's translation in 1901 would go down in history as "Ta Evangelika".
  • 1959: The last German war criminal being held in Greece is released from prison and deported to W. Germany.

Births

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