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Okhi Day
Celebrated throughout Greece on October 28 each year, Okhi Day (also spelled Ohi Day, Oxi Day, or Ochi Day, , Anniversary of the "No") commemorates Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas's (in power from August 4 1936 until January 29 1941) refusal of the ultimatum made by Italian dictator Mussolini on October 28, 1940.
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