Phantis:Selected anniversaries/May 17
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- 1944: The Greek government-in-exile met with representatives of the various guerrila movements in Lebanon.
- 1999: The Revolutionary Organisation 17 November launched a rocket attack on the German Ambassador's residence in retaliation for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- 2000: Stephen Saunders, the British defense attache was murdered by the Revolutionary Organisation 17 November while stopped in traffic in Filothei.
- Births: Napoleon Zervas, Greek resistance leader (1891), Viki Moscholiou, singer (1943), Stratos Apostolakis, footballer (1964)
- Deaths: Panagis Tsaldaris, politician and Prime Minister (1936), Ioannis Georgiadis, fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist (1960)
