Phantis:Selected anniversaries/July 27
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- 1973: EOKA B' abducted Christos Vakis, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Cyprus.
- 1976: Greek Cypriot, Stavros Sykopetritis, attempted to assassinate Bulent Ecevit in New York City. Ecevit was the Turkish PM who ordered the invasion of Cyprus two years earlier.
- 1996: Leonidas Kokkas won silver in weightlifting in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
- Births: Michail Stasinopoulos (1903), politician, President of Greece; Pavlos Sidiropoulos (1948), rock musician
- Deaths: Jenny Karezi (1992), actress