Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 27
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- 1922: King Constantine I abdicated the throne.
- 1923: The Italian forces that had occupied Corfu evacuated the island. Greece was forced to pay an indemnity to the Italian government.
- 1932: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) striked Chalkidiki. 161 persons were killed.
- 1941: The resistance movement EAM (National Liberation Front) was founded by several leftist groups.
- 1953: The first Soviet Ambassador took up his post in Athens.
- 2000: Anastasia Kelesidou won silver at the Sydney Olympiad in the discus throw.
- 2000: Michalis Mouroutsos won gold at the Sydney Olympiad in Tae kwon-do.
- Births: Archbishop Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (1927); Nikos Anastasiadis (1946), Cypriot politician.
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