September 23
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Events
- 1821: Greeks capture Tripolis during the War of Independence against Turkey
- 1995: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visits Patmos as part of the celebration of the 1,900 anniversary of the writing of the Book of Revelation by the Evangelist John.
Sports
- 2000: Pyrros Dimas wins gold in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympiad. It is the third consecutive Olympiad that Dimas wins gold, a feat accomplished previously only by Naim Suleimanoglu.