Phantis:Selected anniversaries/March 9
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- 1941: The Italian Spring offensive against the Greek forces began.
- 1956: Archbishop Makarios III was seized at Nicosia Airport by the British colonial authorities in Cyprus and exiled to the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean.
- 1959: EOKA suspended their activity in response to the London-Zurich accords.
- 1971: Two Greek rivers, the Evros and the Pineios flooded causing damages to the produce in their respective areas.
- Births: Dimitris Horn, stage actor (1921)
- Deaths: Panagiotis Danglis, general and politician (1924).