Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 28
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- 1826: Andreas Miaoulis defeated the Turco-Egyptian fleet at the Battle of Araxos and supplied the besieged at Messolonghi.
- 1974: Archbishop Makarios III declared a 3-day mourning period, throughout Cyprus, over the death of his political opponent Georgios Grivas.
- Deaths: Anastasios Metaxas, architect, Olympic athlete (1937), Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece (2008).
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