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'''[[May 22]]'''
 
'''[[May 22]]'''
*[[1453]]: A lunar eclipse occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantines took it as a bad omen since an old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
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*[[1453]]: Byzantines saw the lunar eclipse that occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege as a bad omen. An old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
 
*[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], heroine of the Greek [[War of Independence]], was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
 
*[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], heroine of the Greek [[War of Independence]], was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was 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 died five days later.
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*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died 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.
 
*Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).
 
*Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).

Revision as of 13:14, May 22, 2007

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