Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 17
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- 1960: Cyprus was accepted into the UN.
- 1961: Adnan Menderes was hanged in the Prince's Islands. Among the accusations brought against the former Turkish PM at his trial, was his tolerance of the Istanbul Pogrom against the Greek minority.
- 1965: Stephanos Stephanopoulos was asked to form a government after Elias Tsirimokos failed to get a vote of confidence in Parliament.
- Births: Demis Nikolaidis, football player, AEK FC President (1973)
- Deaths: Spiro Agnew, Greek-American Vice-President of the United States (1996).
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