Phantis:Selected anniversaries/November 5
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- 1821: First lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, Sir Thomas Maitland, expelled all Greek refugees to prevent residents of the islands from giving assistance to the Greek War of Independence.
- 1901: Students ransacked the offices of Athens daily "Acropolis" in protest over the newspaper's publication of the Bible translated into modern Greek. The events surrounding the Bible's translation in 1901 would go down in history as "Ta Evangelika".
- Births: Laurentis Maheritrsas, musician, singer (1956), Michalis Hadjiyiannis, singer (1978).
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