Phantis:Selected anniversaries/June 27
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- 1637: Ecumenical Patriarch Cyril Lucaris was executed by the Ottoman authorities.
- 1913: Greek forces liberated Kavala during the Second Balkan War.
- 1962: Greek-American Spyros Skouras resigned as head of 20th Century Fox.
- 1969: Michail Stasinopoulos was forced by the Junta to resign his position as President of the Council of the State. After the restoration of democracy, Stasinopoulos served as President of Greece.
- 2001: The record-breaking 4 billion drachma transfer of Michalis Konstantinou from Iraklis to Panathinaikos was finalised.
- Births: Yiannis Poulopoulos (1942), singer
- Deaths: George Papadopoulos (1999), Junta strongman