Phantis:Selected anniversaries/July 20
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- 1974: Turkey invaded Cyprus.
- 1995: Turkish-Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktash, threatened to declare union of the militarily-occupied northern part of Cyprus with Turkey, should the Republic of Cyprus join the European Union.
- Births: King George II (1890); Charilaos Florakis (1914), politician; Aliki Vougiouklaki (1934), actress
- Deaths: Dimitrios Vikelas (1908), author, first President of the International Olympic Committee; Kostas Karyotakis (1928), poet; Panagiotis Pipinelis (1970), politician, Prime Minister; Michalis Kritikopoulos (2002), footballer