Phantis:Selected anniversaries/February 21
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- 1915: Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos resigned after a series of disagreements - mostly focused around entry into World War I - with King Constantine I.
- 1941: Seven Italian aircraft were downed over Greece in a single day during World War II.
- 1985: Publisher Nikos Momferatos of the daily paper Apogevmatini and his driver were killed in Kolonaki. The Revolutionary Organisation 17 November assumed responsibility.
- 1993: Turkish PM, Turgut Ozal, accused Greece of "chauvinism" in relation to FYROM's use of the name "Macedonia".
- Births: Olympia Snowe, Greek-American politician (1947), Angelos Dionysiou, singer (1957)
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