Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 27

537: Hagia Sophia was rededicated in Constantinople by Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Such was the splendour of the new church that the emperor exclaimed: "I have bested you, Solomon!"
1834: Municipalities were formed, in Greece, for the first time.
1944: PM Georgios Papandreou submitted his resignation in the midst of the post-World War II December crisis ("Δεκεμβριανά"). Winston Churchill left Athens for London.
1947: A law was passed by the Centrist Sophoklis Venizelos government outlawing the Communist Party of Greece and the National Liberation Front (EAM). Furthermore, the law criminalised the teaching and spreading of Communism and forbade the publication of any communist newspaper or magazine.
1963: Student rallies took place in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of Enosis between Greece and Cyprus.
Births: Achilleas Karamanlis, politician (1929), Thanasis Polykandriotis, composer of Laika music (1947), Haris Alexiou, singer (1950)

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