Phantis:Selected anniversaries/April 23
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- 1910: 25 men and women farmers were indicted for the bloody events of March 6 at Kileler.
- 1941: King George II and the Greek Government fled to Crete as the Germans marched towards Athens.
- 1944: The revolt of Greek leftist troops in Alexandria was put down by force.
- 2003: Greek Cypriots were allowed to visit the occupied North for the first time since 1974. Turkish Cypriots were allowed to visit the South.
- Births: Melina Kanakaredes, Greek-American actress (1967).
- Deaths: Georgios Karaiskakis, hero of the Greek Revolution (1827), Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (1998)
