Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 20
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- 325 BC: Alexander's fleet, consisting of 150 ships under the command of Admiral Nearchus from Crete, set sail from the port of Matala, in the mouth of the Indus river, to return to Persia.
- 1897: A Peace treaty was signed ending the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
- 1923: Patriarch Meletius IV resigned the Ecumenical throne amid growing political pressure.
- 1942: Resistance members belonging to PEAN blew up the offices of the "National Socialist Patriotic Organisation" killing 43 Germans and 23 Greek collaborators.
- 1951: NATO accepted Greece and Turkey as new members.
- Deaths: Giorgos Seferis (1971), poet; Alexandros Kotzias (1992), writer
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