Phantis:Selected anniversaries/June 29
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- 1850: The Patriarch of Constantinople recognised the independent Church of Greece.
- 1875: Charilaos Trikoupis published his famous article "Who is to blame?" ("Τις πταίει;") in Athens daily "Times" ("Καιροί") concerning the decadence of the government. The public outcry that followed brought down the Dimitrios Voulgaris government.
- 1917: Greece entered World War I.
- 1917: Eleftherios Venizelos declared King Constantine's abolition of the 1915 Parliament unconstitutional. He controversially brought back the 1915 Parliament which went down in history as "The Parliament of the Lazaroi".
- 2002: A bomb that detonated in the hands of Savvas Xeros started a chain reaction of arrests of Novermber 17th members.