Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 25
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- 1829: Richard Church resigned as Commander in Chief of Greek revolutionary forces.
- 1898: 700 Greeks and 15 Britons were slain by Turkish irregulars at Heraklio, Crete.
- 1972: Vasilis Lymperis' death sentence was carried out; Vasilis Lymperis was the last person to be executed in Greece.
- 1993: Vandals destroyed the Greek cemetery of Neochori in Istanbul.
- Births: Yiannis Fertis, actor (1938)
- Deaths: Yiannis Gionakis, actor (2002)