Source: Good News Network
Today is the 78th anniversary of the day when Greece replied to Fascist demands with an emphatic NO. It commemorates the rejection by Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas to an ultimatum given at three o’clock in the morning by the Italian dictator Mussolini: ‘Give the Axis powers strategic access to your land for occupation, or face war.
The story goes that Greece’s answer was a single word ‘Oxi’, meaning no!Greece then fought off the invading Italian forces at the Albanian border—the first setback for the Nazi-Fascists in World War II, as the myth of their invincibility was broken. Such a small country standing up to the demands of the Axis powers was the first good news in the early days of the war. WATCH a video… (1940)
Later that morning on October 28, the Greek population took to the streets, irrespective of political affiliation, shouting ‘ohi’ (or, oxi). FDR, Stalin, Churchill—and even Hitler—all hailed the Greeks for their courageous resistance. Oxi Day is now a national holiday. (Photo by Tigroinikos, CC license)
More Good News on this Date:
- Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, an electrical vote recorder (1868)
- New Yorkers spontaneously invented a ticker-tape parade as office workers threw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty was dedicated (1886)
- Czechoslovakia was granted independence from Austria-Hungary (1918)
- The Alaska (AlCan) Highway was completed through Canada and Alaska (1942)
- Cristina Fernandez became the first woman elected President of Argentina (2007)
And, on this day in 1965, the Gateway Arch in St….
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