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On Monday, October 28, all of Greece—plus Greeks and Hellenes worldwide—celebrated Oxi Day.
On Monday, October 28, all of Greece—plus Greeks and Hellenes worldwide—celebrated Oxi Day. That date celebrates the occasion in 1940 when emissaries sent by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini knocked on the door of the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas at 3:00 a.
m. They told him he should open his sleepy eyes and surrender Greece to the Italian army hunkered down in Albania, primed to attack Greece. Metaxas replied, "Oxi" (Ochi). Oxi means "no" in Greek.
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