Phantis:Selected anniversaries/May 22 - Revision history

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 *[[1453]]: Byzantines saw the lunar eclipse that occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege as a bad omen. An old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
 *[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]] was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
 *[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died five days later.
 *[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.

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 *[[1453]]: Byzantines saw the lunar eclipse that occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege as a bad omen. An old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
 *[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]] was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
 *[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died five days later.
 *[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.

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 *[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
 *Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).
-*Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]); [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] ([[1958]]).
+*Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]] ([[1825]]); [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] ([[1958]]).
 <span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[May 21]] - [[May 20]]</span>
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 *[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
 *Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).
-*Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]), [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] in the [[1930s]] ([[1958]]).
+*Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]); [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] ([[1958]]).
 <span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[May 21]] - [[May 20]]</span>
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 *[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]] was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
 *[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died five days later.
-*[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively sold piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
+*[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
 *Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).
 *Deaths: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]]([[1825]]), [[Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer]], colonial governor of [[Cyprus]] in the [[1930s]] ([[1958]]).
 <span style="font-size:11px; padding-top:3px;">Recent days: [[May 21]] - [[May 20]]</span>
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 '''[[May 22]]'''
-*[[1453]]: A lunar eclipse occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantines took it as a bad omen since an old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
+*[[1453]]: Byzantines saw the lunar eclipse that occured while [[Constantinople]] was under siege as a bad omen. An old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
 *[[1825]]: [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], heroine of the Greek [[War of Independence]], was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
-*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in [[Thessaloniki]]. He died five days later.
+*[[1963]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died five days later.
 *[[2006]]: The 19th century painting '''''The Naughty Grandchild''''' by [[Nikiforos Lytras]] became the most expensively sold piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
 *Births: [[Ploutis Servas]], [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] politician, founder of [[AKEL]] ([[1907]]), [[Fanis Christodoulou]], [[basketball]] player ([[1965]]).