Phantis:Selected anniversaries/November 28
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- 1910: Eleftherios Venizelos and his Liberal Party won 307 out of 362 seats in Parliament in a landslide victory.
- 1922: Five members of the Laiko Party - Dimitrios Gounaris, Nikolaos Stratos, Petros Protopapadakis, Nikolaos Theotokis, Georgios Baltatzis - as well as General Georgios Hadjanestis, were executed at Goudi, Athens, for their role in the Asia Minor disaster.
- 1955: EOKA member, Andreas Dimitriou, shot and injured a British Intelligence agent named Taylor. For the assault, Dimitriou would become, along with Michalis Karaolis, one of the first two Cypriots hanged by the British during the EOKA struggle.
- 2002: The European Court of Human Rights awarded a 13.7 million euro (4.6 billion drachmas) monetary compensation to the former King Constantine II and ruled against the Greek government for the seizure of the royal property.
- Births: Anastasia Kelesidou, athlete (1972)
- Deaths: Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople (1930)
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