Today in Hellenic History.

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20 June 1825
Successful attack of the Messolonghi garrisons against Kioutahi's forces.

20 June 1888
An agreement is signed between the Municipality of Athens and the businessman Karolos Horn,in the frame of which the second undertakes the obligation to manufacture lavatories in various squares of Athens.

20 June 1913
The Greek army captures Gevgeli and Nigrita.

20 June 1929
Emmanuel Benakis,National Benefactor,dies.He placed his fortune at the disposal of numerous charitable foundations and likewise contributed to the settlement of refugees in the aftermath of the catastrophe in Asia Minor.His son Antonis,is the founder of the Benaki museum in Athens.
http://www.benaki.gr/index-en.htm

20 June 1978
At 23:04 (local time),the city of Thessaloniki is struck by a powerful and destructive earthquake of the magnitude of 6,5 on the Richter scale.

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21 June 1814
English troops capture Corfu island.

21 June 1824
Psara island is destroyed by turkish-egyptian fleet.The sturdy resistance of the locals and the refugees from Chios,Moshonisia and the coast of Asia Minor (estimated to more than 20.000) did not prevent the destruction of the island.More than half of the inhabitants and the refugees are killed or captured whereas a great wave of refugees head to Spetses and the Cyclades.

The island of Psara
"Στων Ψαρών την ολόμαυρη ράχη
περπατώντας η Δόξα μονάχη,
μελετά τα λαμπρά παλικάρια,
και στην κόμη στεφάνι φορεί,
καμωμένο από λίγα χορτάρια
που είχαν μείνει στην έρημη γη."
Διονύσιος Σολωμός

21 June 1826
Unsuccessful military expedition of Ibrahim against Mani.

21 June 1863
Iouniana end with the signing of a truce and the composition of a new Provisional Government which was named "Provisional Government of the Plateau" because it was constituted of both "mountaineers" and "plainsmen". This government guided by Venizelos Roufos possesses the executive power until the arrival of King Georgios in Greece on October,18.

21 June 1913
The Greek army liberates Kilkis and Lachana.

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22 June 168 BC
The Macedonian army under the leadership of King Perseas is defeated by the Romans,led by Aemilious Paulus,at Pydna.The Battle of Pydna is considered among the most significant in antiquity because it played an important role in the subsequent political events of Greece.After the fall of the Macedonian kingdom it was only a matter of time for the Romans to take the control of the political affairs in Greece.

22 June 1821
The revolution in Greece together with information of a revolutionary movement in Cyprus,result in the execution of the Archbishop of Cyprus Kyprianos and three other Bishops along with other notables,clergymen and common people of the island.

22 June 1825
Colonel Baron Charles Fabvier (1782 - 1855,Karolos Favieros as Greeks called him)is appointed by the government as Commander of the Tactical Army.

22 June 1837
Ernest Ziller is born in Oberlausitz of Saxony.He will later come to Greece where he will plan many neoclassical buildings.
The Presidential Mansion and residence of the President of the Hellenic Republic is designed by him.Also the National Library was built under his survey.In Thessaloniki,the neoclassical building where the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle is operating,is designed by him.

22 June 1962
In Mount Athos (Aghion Oros) begin the celebrations for the millennium of the Athonite Monasticism.

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23 June 1825
Greeks under Kolokotronis are defeated by Turk-egyptians under Ibrahim in Trikorfa of Tripolitsa.

23 June 1913
Greeks capture Doirani.

23 June 1964
Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou meets in the White House the President Lyndon B. Johnson.He is put under pressure to accept retreats in the Cypriot question.

23 June 1996
Andreas Papandreou dies.He served three terms as Prime Minister of Greece.
http://www.agp.gr/agp/content/Home.a...m=-1&rm=-1&l=1

23 June 2005
Manolis Anagnostakis,poet and essayist,dies.

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24 June 1949
The Prime Minister Themistoklis Sofoulis dies.

24 June 1960
The Greek-Yugoslavian-Turkish alliance,known as the balkan pact(9/8/1954) is dissolved.

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25 June 1821
Ioannis Kolettis declares the Revolution in the villages Sirako and Kalarites of Epirus.

25 June 1912
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras wins one golden (Long Jump without impetus:3,37 m.) and one bronze (High Jump without impetus:1,55 m.) medal in the Stockholm Olympics.

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras.

25 June 1994
The European Councils at the Corfu Summit held on 24–25 June 1994,confirm that Cyprus will be among the acceding countries at the next enlargement

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26 June 363
The Emperor Julian the Apostate (Ιουλιανός ο Παραβάτης)dies.He had rejected Christianity and had tried to restore the traditional pagan worship.

26 June 1836
Ioannis Zaimis is appointed by King Otto as the first mayor of the city of Patras.

26 June 1867
King Otto,the first modern king of Greece,dies.

26 June 1913
The Greeks capture Stromnitsa.

26 June 1945
Greece along with other 49 countries,signs in the Herbst Theatre auditorium of the Veterans War Memorial Building(San Francisco,USA) the 111-article United Nations Charter.

26 June 1992
In the Summit Meeting in Lisbon,the European Community decides the non-recognition of the Republic of the FYROM,as long as the word “Macedonia” exists in its name.

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27 June 363
Iovianos is elected Emperor.He will remain on the throne until February 16,364.

27 June 742
Artabasdos,commander of the Opsikion theme,usurps the throne by Konstantinos V,taking advantage of the fact that the latter was traversing Asia Minor to fight the Arabs on the eastern frontier.A civil war begins.In the end on November 2,743 Konstantinos returns to the throne and Artabasdos is punished by blinding.

27 June 1797
On the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797, by the Treaty of Campo Formio the Ionian Islands come under French rule.

27 June 1911
The Venizelos government restores King Konstantinos in the army as general inspector,despite the opposite opinions of members of the Military Contact.

27 June 1913
The Greek army liberates Kavala.In the same day Sidirokastro is liberated too.

27 June 1921
Begins the general advance towards Ankara during the Asia Minor campaign.

Greek Troops, crossing the "Salty Desert".

27 June 1985
Athens becomes the first Cultural Capital of Europe.The cultural institution of the European City of Culture was launched on the initiative of the then Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.Current European Capital of Culture is Patras.
http://patras2006.gr/en/

27 June 1999
Georgios Papadopoulos,the head of the military coup d'état of April 21, 1967 and leader of the military government that ruled the country during the period 1967 - 1974,dies.

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28 June 548
Empress Theodora,wife of Emperor Joustinianos I,dies

28 June 1821
Ilias Mavromichalis,son of Petrobeis,hands the fortress of Libadia to Omer Vrionis and Kioshe Mehmet

28 June 1913
The Greek army liberates Serres.When the Greek soldiers enter the city,they find it completely destroyed.The Bulgarian troops before withdrawing,bombarded and burned it.


28 June 1948
The Cominform recants the Yugoslav leader,Josip Broz Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.This decision will have repercussions to the Greek Civil war,because shortly after Tito will no more recognize his engagements towards the Democratic Army of Greece(DSE) .

28 June 1979
The Greek Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Accession in the EEC,with 193 votes in favour[175 New Democracy,4 KODISO,2 EDIK,4 National Alignment,1 KKE Interior,1 EDA,6 indipendent] 104 votes against[PASOK and KKE] and 3 "present" votes.

28 June 1991
KKE withdraws from Synaspismos(Coalition)

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29 June 1822
Mahmut pasha of Drama (Dramalis),Tosal Ali pasha,Mahmut Hasan pasha and Erip Ahmet pasha,heads of powerful military forces camp near Lamia.Aim of their expedition is the repression of the Revolution.

29 June 1850
The Patriarchal Synod issues the Synodic Volume,through which the Greek Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are proclaimed a Self-Governed Church,the Autocephalous Greek Church.

29 June 1874
It is published in the newspaper "Times" («Καιροί») the article of Charilaos Trikoupis entitled "Who's to blame?"(«Τις πταίει»).Trikoupis shows as the person in charge for the political crisis that takes place,the King Georgios I.He negatively comments the King's choices in the formation of the governments and he condemns him for bypassing the parliamentary opinion on the selection of Prime Ministers.

29 June 1917
Venizelos with a decree cancels as anticonstitutional the royal decree of October 1915 with which the king had dissolved the Parliament where Venizelos had the majority.He simultaneously calls that Parliament for a second regular session on July 12.This "resurrected" Parliament remained in the history as "the Parliament of Lazaruses".

29 June 1921
The attack of the Greek army in M. Asia begins,having as objective the occupation of Eski-shehir.

29 June 1994
The European Court vindicates Greece for the embargo put on Fyrom.

29 June 2002
Following a failed bombing attempt on the "Hellas Flying Dolphins" company in the harbour of Piraeus,the Greek authorities capture an injured suspect,Savvas Xiros.He is connected straightly to the terrorist organisation, November 17. Few days later the two safe houses of the organisation are discovered and little by little the clew that leads to the head of the organisation that acted from 1975,begins to unfold .