Phantis:Selected anniversaries/February 9
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- 474: Zeno I ascended to the Byzantine throne.
- 1950: Martial law, imposed as a result of the Greek Civil War, was lifted throughout Greece.
- 1976: The European Common Market accepted the application of Greece for full membership.
- 1995: Four members of the Northern Epirus "Omonia Party" were released from prison by the Albanian authorities.
- Births: Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine emperor (1404); Katerina Stanisi, singer (1957); Angelos Charisteas, footballer (1980).
- Deaths: Dionysios Solomos, poet (1857); Miltiades Ewert, politician (2011).
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