Phantis:Selected anniversaries/April 10
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- 1821: Patriarch Gregory V was hanged on the Central outside porte of the Patriarchate by the Turks.
- 1821: The island of Psara joined the Greek War of Independence.
- 1896: Spiros Loues won the marathon in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
- 1924: The first Greek train robbery was recorded near Larisa.
- 1932: Nikos Angelakis became the first - and so far, only - player to score six goals in a Greek League game as Aris defeated Apollon Athens 6-1.
- Births: Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus (1941)
- Deaths: Ezekias Papaioannou, Cypriot politician chairman of AKEL (1988), Archbishop Seraphim of Athens and all Greece (1998), Former Archbishop Iakovos Koukouzis of North and South America (2005).