Phantis:Selected anniversaries/December 18
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- 1943: German occupation forces executed 133 persons at Drakia, Thessaly.
- 1956: Evagoras Pallikaridis was arrested in Cyprus by the British.
- 1974: Greece broke a 40 year-old tradition by defeating Bulgaria 2-1 at Karaiskaki Stadium (Sarafis, Antoniadis)
- Births: Eleni Vlachos, newspaper publisher (1911), Mario Frangoulis, tenor opera singer (1966)
- Deaths: Vasilis Michailidis, Cypriot poet (1917)
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