Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 29
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- 1983: Greece reformed family law giving women equal rights.
- 2000: Marina Varsamidou smashed Christina Panagou's 13 year old 400m indoors record with 53.54
- 2006: Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis played against Roger Federer in the mens' final of the Australian Open. Baghdatis took the first set but eventually lost 3-1 sets.
- Births: Aleka Kanellidou, singer (1945), Athina Roussel Onassis, heiress to the Aristotle Onassis fortune (1985).
- Deaths: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek PM during World War II (1941).
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