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1907: Marinos Antypas, an advocate of agrarian reform, was assassinated in Thessaly.
1948: The Dodecanese officially became part of Greece.
1964: Fighting broke out in Mallia, Lemesos province, Cyprus between Cypriot National Guardsmen and Turkish Cypriot irregulars.
2004: Costas Karamanlis was elected Greek Prime Minister over Giorgos Papandreou. Karamanlis' New Democracy Party received 45.36% of the vote whereas Papandreou's PASOK received 40.55%. The Communist KKE was third with a 5.90% share of the vote.
Births: Giorgos Katsaros, composer (1934)
Deaths: Aristotle, philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great (322 BC), Marinos Antypas, labour organiser (1907)

The Art Gallery

The blowing up of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris - a painting by Nikiforos Lytras, 143x109 cm. Averoff Gallery.

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