Phantis:Selected anniversaries/November 9
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- 1866: The holocaust of Arkadi took place.
- 1931: A Greek monk discovered the icon of Panagia of Sumela in Trapezus, Asia Minor.
- 1940: After the complete failure of the invasion of Greece by the Italian military, Mussolini replaced General Prasca with General Ubaldo Soddu, his former Vice-Minister of War.
- 1995: Greek police disarmed and arrested an Ethiopian who had hijacked an Olympic Airlines airplane, just before takeoff, and was holding a stewardess hostage.
- Births: Spiro Agnew (1918), Greek-American Vice-President of the United States; Mary Linda 1935), singer; Zisis Vryzas (1973), footballer
- Deaths: Constantine VII "Porfyrogenitos" (959), Byzantine emperor.
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