Phantis:Selected anniversaries/October 28
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- 312: Constantine the Great was victorious over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge; his victory resulted in his becoming Western Augustus, or ruler of the entire Western Roman Empire.
- 1940: Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas replied with the single-word reply "no", when Mussolini demanded occupation rights to strategic Greek sites. Greece officially entered World War II.
- 1944: German soldiers, while on retreat, sabotaged and destroyed the bridge of Papadia, and the tunnel and bridge of Brallos.
- 1959: The electricity plant of Ptolemaida began its operations
- 1962: Giorgos Babaniotis broke the Greek Hammer throw record with a throw of 60.20m.
- Births: Spyros Kyprianou (1932), Cypriot politician and President; Poly Panou (1940), popular singer
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