Phantis:Selected anniversaries/March 7
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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)