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| 1941 May |
| | | German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle | |
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| 1942 June 9 |
| | | Hitler orders a massacre at Lidice, a village near Prague, in retaliation for the death of Heydrich | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Churchill extends Harold Macmillan's responsibilities to include developments in Greece and the Balkans | |
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| 1944 October 18 |
| | | Athens is liberated and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou at its head | |
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| 1944 December 3 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Greece between rival groups of partisans resisting demobilization | |
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| 1954 |
| | | George Grivas leads a guerrilla movement, EOKA, fighting for Cyprus's independence from Britain and union with Greece | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Archaeologists at Olympia excavate the workshop of the Greek classical sculptor Phidias | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London | |
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| 1967 |
| | | A coup in Greece brings in an incompetent and repressive military junta that becomes known as the 'Greek colonels' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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