Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 24
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- 1779: Saint Kosmas Aitolos was hanged by Ottoman authorities near Berat, Albania.
- 1926: Pavlos Kountouriotis was restored to the Presidency of Greece following the ouster of Theodoros Pangalos.
- 2007:53 people died as huge forest fires, fanned by gale-force winds, raged out of control in the Peloponnese and other parts of the country.
- Deaths: Michael V, Byzantine emperor (1042), Saint Kosmas Aitolos, travelling preacher and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church (1779).