Phantis:Selected anniversaries/February 22
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- 1897: Cretans battled against Turks in Ierapetra.
- 1935: The trial of a bandit and several high officials of the Police force over the 1933 assassination attempt on Venizelos' life began.
- 1943: Students striked in occupied Athens.
- 2004: Archbishop Christodoulos called the Annan Plan "anti-Greek", claiming it would lead to the de-hellenisation of Cyprus.
- Births: Apostolos Santas, member of the Greek Resistance who lowered the swastika from the Acropolis, Athens (1922).
- Deaths: Katina Paxinou, actress (1973)
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