January 9

Events

1921: The First Battle of Inonu commences.
1938: Crown Prince Paul of Greece marries Princess Frederika in Athens.
1948: The Hellenic Parliament passes Law 518 annexing the Dodecanese islands.
1956: EOKA fighter, Kyriakos Matsis, is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.
1965: The Greek government officially announces that 4,000 Greeks were forced to leave Istanbul during 1964 - the year of the Cyprus crisis.
1979: Greek television begins broadcasting in color using the French system SECAM. It will later be replaced by the German PAL.
2015: Cyprus Airways ceases operations after the EU rules they cannot receive any further state aid.