HISTORY
HISTORY
Cyprus Fire Service | A video tribute to the firefighters who lost their lives in Mari
Watch the video tribute made by the Cyprus Fire Service, in memoriam of the firefighters who lost their lives in the Mari explosion in 2011…
July 05, 2006 | The crash of a National Guard Mil-35P
This year marks the 14th anniversary of the National Guard’s Mi-35 helicopter crash that killed Squadron Leader (I) Andreas Papasozomenos…
June 28, 1919 | The Liberation of Serres – The report of the Cypriot journalist
During the Second Balkan War and after the battle of Kilkis – Lahana, the defensive line of the Bulgarians in Macedonia was broken
June 24, 2008 | 12 years later ECoHR convicts Turkey of the murders of Isaac-Solomou
On June 24, 2008, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of the murders of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou in August 1996
June 22, 1941 | Operation Barbarossa, the largest military invasion in history
The Great Patriotic War, as Russian historians call it, or the Eastern Front of World War II, was the bloodiest conflict in…
June 10, 1944 | The Nazi massacre in Distomo
It is one of the most atrocious crimes of the Nazis in occupied Greece during World War II…
D-DAY | Landing in Normandy, June 06 1944
On June 6, 1944, on the shores of Normandy in northern France, Allied forces of World War II carried out the largest amphibious operation in history…
June 5, 1967 | The Six-Day War – The Destruction of the Arab League and Israel’s Triumph
The “Arab-Israeli War of 1967”, also known as the “Six-Day War”, broke out between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria….
June 4, 1878 | Commencement of British rule in Cyprus
On June 4, 1878, the Ottoman Empire ceded Cyprus to the British Empire as a protectorate (and later as a possession) with a Treaty of Defence
May 25, 2010 | The 460th Search & Rescue Squadron is established
Established on May 25th, 2010, the 460th Search & Rescue Squadron (SQR) was formed after the Republic of Cyprus took sole