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1500
Portuguese explorer Pedro Adrales Cabral is the first European to reach Brazil and calls it “Island of the True Cross” because he thought it was an island.
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1827
Georgios Karaiskakis is injured by a bullet in Faliro. There are suspicions of an assassination attempt by his political opponents.
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1897
The Battle of Pharsalus. The Greek forces under Brigadier General Smolenskis, despite fierce Turkish attacks, maintain their positions. (The Greek-Turkish War of 1897)
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1915
Chemical weapons are used for the first time on the battlefield. At the Battle of Ypres, during World War I, German forces fire cylinders of chlorine gas, killing 5,000 French soldiers.
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1931
The Benaki Museum is inaugurated in Athens, in the presence of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos and other officials.
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1963
The founding conference of the National Student Union of Greece (EFEE) is taking place at the Hatzichristou Theater in Athens. The later journalist Yannis Tzanetakos will be elected its first president on April 28.
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