Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 30
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- 1923: Italian forces bombarded and occupied Corfu in retaliation for the death of a kidnapped Italian general by bandits. 20 Greeks died in the bombardment.
- 1930: The future Patriarch Athenagoras was appointed Archbishop of North and South America, a diocese deeply divided along political lines.
- 1974: An unsuccessful attempt was made on the life of Dr. Vasos Lyssaridis, a Cypriot politician.
- Births: Lakis Chalkias (1943), singer; Queen Anna Maria of Greece (1946)