Phantis:Selected anniversaries/March 15
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- 1905: Cretan revolutionaries declare Union ("Enosis") with Greece.
- 1989: Menios Koutsogiorgas resigned from the PASOK government in the aftermath of the Bank of Crete scandal.
- 1995: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November launched a rocket attack against the TV studios of MEGA during the evening news broadcast.
- 2007: Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed a tripartite inter-state agreement in Athens, opening the way for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, connecting the western Black Sea with the Mediterranean.
- Births: Kostas Nestoridis, ace footballer (1930)
- Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Romanus II (possibly poisoned by his wife Theophano) (963), Aristotle Onassis, shipping tycoon (1975), Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister (2006)