Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 4
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- 1887: Charilaos Trikoupis won the national elections in Greece.
- 1924: Eleftherios Venizelos returned to Athens after 38 months of exile.
- 1930: The Agrarian Bank of Greece commenced operations under Konstantinos Gontikas.
- 1941: Swimmer Georgios Ivanof of Iraklis Salonica, was executed during the German occupation. To honor his memory, the club named its basketball court Ivanofio (Ιβανόφειο) after him.
- 1956: Newly-appointed PM, Constantine Karamanlis, formed a new party called the National Radical Union (ERE).
- Births: Kostas Frantzeskos, footballer (1969)
- Deaths: Nikolaos Gyzis, painter (1901), Spiros Markezinis, economist, politician and historian (2000)