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==Events==
 
==Events==
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*[[322 BC]]: [[Demosthenes]] commits suicide before he could be handed over to the [[Macedon]]ians.
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*[[1687]]: Patriarch [[Dionysius IV of Constantinople]] is removed from office.
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*[[1863]]: [[King George I|Prince George of Denmark]] arrives in [[Piraeus]]. He will reign on the throne of Greece for the next 50 years.
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*[[1909]]: A movement in the Greek Navy against the [[Military Association]] is violently put down.
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*[[1914]]: A powerful earthquake (6.0 on the Richter scale) strikes [[Thebes]], [[Boeotia]] and the surrounding area.
 
*[[1931]]: Metropolitan of [[Kition]], [[Nikodimos Milonas]], calls for protests throughout [[Cyprus]] against British policies on the island.
 
*[[1931]]: Metropolitan of [[Kition]], [[Nikodimos Milonas]], calls for protests throughout [[Cyprus]] against British policies on the island.
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*[[1941]]: 250 inhabitants of [[Kerdylia]], [[Serres prefecture|Serres]] are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the killing of a single German soldier.
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*[[1949]]: "Radio Free Greece" announces the cessation of all hostilities on the part of the communist [[Democratic Army of Greece]]. The [[Greek Civil War]] is officially over.
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*[[2005]]: A powerful earthquake (6.0 on the Richter scale) strikes [[Samos]] and the surrounding area.
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*[[2017]]: PM [[Alexis Tsipras]] visits the White House and holds a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump.
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===Sports===
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*[[1967]]: [[Christos Papanikolaou]] breaks the Greek record in the [[pole vault]] with 5.30m.
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*[[2007]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] qualify for Euro 2008 by defeating Turkey 1-0 in Istanbul.
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==
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*[[1860]]: [[Dionysios Lavrangas]], composer
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*[[1913]]: [[George Polk]], US correspondent murdered in Greece
 
*[[1955]]: [[Georgios Alogoskoufis]], economist, politician
 
*[[1955]]: [[Georgios Alogoskoufis]], economist, politician
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==Deaths==
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*[[322 BC]]: [[Demosthenes]], Athenian orator.
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*[[1952]]: [[Philippos Kourantis]], footballer
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*[[1955]]: [[Dimitrios Maximos]], banker, PM of Greece
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*[[1981]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]], first Greek woman to cabinet Minister.
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*[[1992]]: [[Orestes Laskos]], poet and theatrical writer.
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*[[1999]]: [[Mema Stathopoulou]], actress
  
 
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