Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 10
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- 976: Basil II became emperor at age 18. History will come to know him as the "Bulgar-slayer".
- 1927: Clashes broke out in Athens between followers of the Julian calendar and followers of the Gregorian calendar.
- 1941: The Greek First Division liberated Kleisoura.
- 1957: EOKA fighter Fotis Pittas was arrested by the British.
- 1983: Greece devalued the drachma by 15.5%
- Births: Jenny Vanou, popular Elafro singer (1945)
- Deaths: John I Tzimisces, Byzantine emperor (976), Dimitrios Voulgaris, politician and Prime Minister of Greece (1878), Dimitris Myrat, stage actor (1991).