Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 11
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- 1801: Ali Pasha ordered the execution by drowning of Kyra-Frosini.
- 1930: Kostis Palamas became President of the Athens Academy.
- 1944: Allied airplanes bombarded the harbour of Piraeus.
- 1979: Yiangos Pesmazoglou left the Centrist Democratic Union to form the Democratic Socialist Party (KODISO)
- Births: Theodosius I, Byzantine emperor (347), Georgios Iakovidis, painter (1853), Nikos Kavvadias, writer (1910)
- Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Stauracius (812), Constantine IX, Byzantine emperor nicknamed "Monomachos" (1055), King Constantine I exiled monarch of Greece (1923), Grigorios Xenopoulos, writer (1951).
Recent days: January 10 - January 9