Phantis:Selected anniversaries/July 3

July 3

• 1821: A Greek force under Markos Botsaris defeated the Turks at the Battle of Komboti, near Arta.
• 1960: Athens daily "To Vima" announced it would no longer print two obsolete diacritics of the Greek language: the grave accent ("vareia") and the iota subscript ("ypogegrammeni").
• 2002: Greek police located the main hideout of the Revolutionary Organisation 17 November.
• 2006: FIFA suspended the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF), European champions Greece and its member clubs, from international competition because of government interference in the sport.
• Births: Stavros Niarchos (1909), shipping magnate; Sotiris Kyrgiakos (1979), footballer

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