Phantis:Selected anniversaries/April 6
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- 648 BC: The ancient Greeks recorded an eclipse of the sun for the first time.
- 1870: Greek police and soldiers attacked the Arvanitakis gang. All the British and Italian hostages, held by the gang, were killed in the operation.
- 1896: Commencement of the first modern Olympic Games. By the Julian calendar, the games commenced on March 25 - the national holiday of Greece - as a symbolic gesture.
- 1941: During World War II, Greek PM Alexandros Korizis personally rejected a German demand for unconditional surrender.
- 1985: The Greek Parliament accepted the proposal of the PASOK government to amend the constitution.
- Births: Christos Sartzetakis, former President of Greece (1929)
- Deaths: Adamantios Korais, Greek intellectual (1833), Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (1995)