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*[[1770]]: [[Sir Edward Codrington]], British admiral at the [[Battle of Navarino]]
 
*[[1770]]: [[Sir Edward Codrington]], British admiral at the [[Battle of Navarino]]
 
*[[1903]]: [[Nikolaos Zachariadis]], Communist leader
 
*[[1903]]: [[Nikolaos Zachariadis]], Communist leader
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*[[1935]]: [[Theodoros Angelopoulos]], film director
  
 
==Deaths==
 
==Deaths==

Revision as of 12:57, November 19, 2008

Events

  • 1941: The Germans enter Athens during World War II.
  • 1952: the Cypriot National Assembly ratifies the union of Greece and Cyprus.
  • 1956: A RAF Douglas Dakota is destroyed on the ground by a bomb thought to have been placed by EOKA fighters.
  • 2007: Employment minister Savvas Tsitouridis resigned after weeks of government criticism that followed the discovery that a state pension fund had overpaid € 4.8 million (US$6.4 million) for state bonds.

Births

Deaths