Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 7
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- 1900: Almost 100 persons died as the steamship "Sarkia" sank off Andros.
- 1964: Georgios Plytas was elected Mayor of Athens.
- 1985: Kostis Stephanopoulos formed the Democratic Renewal Party (DI.ANA.). Ten New Democracy MPs followed him.
- 1986: Larisa defeated Ethnikos Piraeus 9-0, however the Hellenic Football Federation did not recognise the result of the match as Ethnikos fielded amateurs due to a footballers' strike.
- 1994: An Albanian court handed down jail sentences to five members of the Northern Epirus "Omonia Party" for "treason and collaboration with an outside power".
- 1999: A powerful earthquake (5.9 on the Richter scale) caused extensive damages and 86 fatalities in Attica. Turkish rescue units were among the first on the scene.
- Births: Elia Kazan, Greek-American film director and producer (1909).
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