February 15

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Events

1920: Pavlos Kountouriotis is promoted to the rank of Admiral.
1996: The Revolutionary Organisation 17 November launch a mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens.
1998: Glafkos Clerides is re-elected President of Cyprus.
1999: Kurdish rebel leader, Abdullah Ocalan, leaves the Greek Embassy in Kenya and is arrested by Kenyan officials who hand him over to the Turks. The event sparks reactions in Greece that lead to the resignation of three government ministers.

Births

1835: Dimitrios Vikelas, author, first President of the International Olympic Committee.
1919: Andreas Papandreou, politician

Deaths

1843: Theodoros Kolokotronis, general in the Greek War of Independence
1887: Patriarch Joachim IV of Constantinople
1932: Lysimachos Kautantzoglou, architect

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