Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 19
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- 1943: The "RHS Vasilissa Olga" sank the Italian ship Stromboli off the coast of Tunisia.
- 1947: The "S.S. Chimara" sank in the Euboic Sea. Casualties numbered 400 dead, among them 200 policemen and 36 political prisoners.
- 1949: Communist forces entered Karpenisi during the Greek Civil War. They held it for three days.
- Births: Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (399); Aris San, Greek-Israeli singer (1940); Giorgos Hadjinasios, composer (1942)
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