Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 4
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- 1865: The Hymn to Freedom was established as the National Anthem of Greece.
- 1936: Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas declared a state of emergency and began to rule by decree.
- 1972: Vasilis Papageorgopoulos broke the Greek record for the 100m with 10.22.
- Births: Giorgos Zografos (1936), singer and actor, Nikos Liberopoulos, footballer (1975).
- Deaths: Panourgias Panourgias (1834), War of Independence hero; Nikiforos Vrettakos (1991), poet