Phantis:Selected anniversaries/September 13
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- 1916: Eleftherios Venizelos left for Thessaloniki with 300 of his followers to take charge of the National Defence Movement.
- 1921: The Battle of the Sakarya ended with the withdrawal of the Greek Army.
- 1986: A powerful earthquake (6.2 on the Richter scale) rocked Kalamata causing extensive damage and five fatalities.
- 1995: In an agreement between the two countries, FYROM would remove the Vergina Star from flag and amend constitution, Greece would lift the embargo imposed.
- 1996: First TV debate in Greek political history as Costas Simitis took on Miltiades Evert prior to the general elections.
- Births: John II Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1087), Constantine Karatheodoris, mathematician (1873), Tzannis Tzannetakis, politician, Prime Minister (1927)
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