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*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]]). | ||
*Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]), [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] in the [[1930s]] ([[1958]]). | *Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]), [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] in the [[1930s]] ([[1958]]). | ||
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<span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[May 21]] - [[May 20]]</span> | <span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[May 21]] - [[May 20]]</span> | ||
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Revision as of 13:15, May 22, 2007
- 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.
- 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.
- Births: Ploutis Servas, Cypriot politician, founder of AKEL (1907), Fanis Christodoulou, basketball player (1965).
- Deaths: Laskarina Bouboulina(1825), Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer, colonial governor of Cyprus in the 1930s (1958).
