Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 4
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- 1865: The Hymn to Freedom is established as the National Anthem of Greece.
- 1936: Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas declares a state of emergency and rules by decree.
- Births: Giorgos Zografos (1936), singer and actor.
- Deaths: Panourgias Panourgias (1834), War of Independence hero; Makarios I (1865), Archbishop of Cyprus; Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople (1878); Nikiforos Vrettakos (1991), poet