Phantis:Selected anniversaries/November 5
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- 1821: First lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, Sir Thomas Maitland, expelled all Greek refugees to prevent residents of the islands from giving assistance to the Greek War of Independence.
- 1901: Students ransacked the offices of Athens daily "Acropolis" in protest over the newspaper's publication of the Bible translated into modern Greek. The events surrounding the Bible's translation in 1901 would go down in history as "Ta Evangelika".
- 1914 (NS): The British annexed Cyprus.
- 2007: A convoy of 14 Greek Police jeeps was fired upon with automatic weapons, as it attempted to enter the village of Zoniana, Crete.
- Births: Aleka Papariga, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Greece (1945: ), Laurentis Maheritsas, musician, singer (1956), Michalis Hadjiyiannis, singer (1978).
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