On this day
18/12/1803
The dance at Zalongo. Twenty-two Souliot women in danger of capture by Turk-Albanians escaped with their children to the Rock of Zalongo. There they sang and danced before they first threw their children off the precipice and then jumped themselves, preferring death to dishonor.
18/12/1943
German occupation forces executed 118 inhabitants of Drakeia village in Magnesia.