- 1941: The Germans entered Athens during World War II.
- 1952: the Cypriot National Assembly ratified the union of Greece and Cyprus.
- Births: Adamantios Korais, Greek intellectual (1748), Sir Edward Codrington, British admiral at the Battle of Navarino (1770)
- Deaths: Ioannis Makrygiannis, hero of the Greek War of Independence (1864)
