Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 17
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- 1913: The Florence Protocol was signed drawing the border between Greece and Albania. Northern Epirus was awarded to the newly-created Albanian state.
- 1989: Polish forward Krzysztof Warzycha played his first game in a Panathinaikos jersey against AEK
- 1997: A Russian-built Yakovlev 42, (Ukraine's Aerosweet) destined for Thessaloniki, Macedonia Airport, crashed on Pieria mountains after losing its orientation and contact with ground control. All 70 people on board died.
- 2003: The trial of the Revolutionary Organisation 17 November was completed as sentences were pronounced against the guilty.
- Births: Katina Paxinou, actress (1900), Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer (1949), Kostas Gatsioudis, javelin thrower (1973)
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