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1914: Damaging earthquakes strike Lefkada, causing 16 fatalities.
1919: The Treaty of Neuilly is signed; Greece acquires Thrace from Bulgaria.
1921: Meletios Metaxakis, Archbishop of North and South America, is elected Ecumenical Patriarch. Meletios was labeled a Venizelist.
1925: Theodoros Pangalos tries to assert his authority by holding a publicly held hanging execution; Drakakos and Zafeiropoulos were executed for embezzling public monies.
1940: Maria Callas makes her first professional performance in the National Opera House, playing Beatrice in "Boccaccio".
1940: The Battle of Pogradec commences.
1969: Two Jordanians attack the offices of El Al in Athens with hand grenades, killing a Greek boy, Giorgos Nastos.
1999: Kakhi Kakhiasvili wins 3 gold metals at 94 kg the World Weightlifting Championship games held in Athens.
2004: The relics of Saint Gregory Nazianzenus are returned to Constantinople by the Roman Catholic Church.

1963: The players of PAOK walk off the pitch when the Bulgarian referee denies them an obvious penalty against Olympiakos. Olympiakos are awarded the match 2-0 (forfeit).
1963: Cyprus defeat Greece 3-1 in the first game ever played between the two teams. Mimis Papaioannou debuts with Greece.
2008: Olympiakos humble Benfica 5-1 in the UEFA Cup.

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 *[[1940]]: [[Maria Callas]] makes her first professional performance in the National Opera House, playing Beatrice in "Boccaccio".
 *[[1940]]: The [[Battle of Pogradec]] commences.
+*[[1969]]: Two Jordanians attack the offices of El Al in [[Athens]] with hand grenades, killing a Greek boy, Giorgos Nastos.
 *[[1999]]: [[Kakhi Kakhiasvili]] wins 3 gold metals at 94 kg the World Weightlifting Championship games held in [[Athens]].
 *[[2004]]: The relics of Saint [[Gregory Nazianzenus]] are returned to [[Constantinople]] by the Roman Catholic Church.