Difference between revisions of "June 4"

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1878: Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1959: Greece rejected a Soviet note urging that no missile bases be established on Greek soil.
1977: Greece releases five British plane-spotters imprisoned for spying; they were released after 10 weeks in jail. {BBC)
1992: Bavarian Greeks petition their local government to convince the German government not to recognise FYROM as "Macedonia".
1993: FYROM reject Slobodan Milosevic's initiative to settle their dispute with Greece by being known as "Slavic Macedonia"
1993: Greece claims that she lost $2.6 billion on account of the EU embargo against Yugoslavia.

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 *[[1878]]: [[Cyprus Convention]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] cedes [[Cyprus]] to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
 *[[1959]]: [[Greece]] rejected a Soviet note urging that no missile bases be established on Greek soil.
-*[[1977]]: Greece releases five British plane-spotters imprisoned for spying; they were released after 10 weeks in jail.
+*[[1977]]: Greece releases five British plane-spotters imprisoned for spying; they were released after 10 weeks in jail.  {[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_2527000/2527187.stm BBC])
 *[[1992]]: Bavarian Greeks petition their local government to convince the German government not to recognise FYROM as "Macedonia".
 *[[1993]]: FYROM reject Slobodan Milosevic's initiative to settle their dispute with [[Greece]] by being known as "Slavic Macedonia"