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322 BC: Demosthenes committed suicide before he could be handed over to the Macedonians.
1863: Prince George of Denmark arrived in Piraeus to reign on the throne of Greece for the next 50 years.
1931: Metropolitan of Kition, Nikodimos Milonas, called for protests throughout Cyprus against British policies on the island.
1941: 250 inhabitants of Kerdylia, Serres prefecture were executed by the Germans in retaliation for the killing of a single German soldier.
1949: "Radio Free Greece" announced the cessation of all hostilities on the part of the communist Democratic Army of Greece. The Greek Civil War was officially over.
Births: Dionysios Lavrangas (1860), composer; Georgios Alogoskoufis (1955), economist, politician
Deaths: Demosthenes (322 BC), Athenian orator; Orestes Laskos (1992), poet and theatrical writer; Mema Stathopoulou (1999), actress