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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 | ||
+ | *[[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
- 1748: Adamantios Korais, Greek intellectual
- 1770: Sir Edward Codrington, British admiral at the Battle of Navarino
- 1903: Nikolaos Zachariadis, Communist leader
- 1935: Theodoros Angelopoulos, film director
Deaths
- 1864: Ioannis Makrygiannis, hero of the Greek War of Independence.
- 1941: Penelope Delta, writer (suicide)
- 2007: Marios Tokas, songwriter