1928

From Phantis

Contents 1 Events 1.1 April 1.2 May 1.3 June 1.4 July 1.5 November 2 Births 2.1 February 2.2 March 2.3 May 2.4 June 2.5 July 2.6 November 2.7 December 3 Deaths 3.1 July 3.2 Unknown

Events

April

• April 22: An earthquake devastates Corinth and Loutraki killing dozens.

May

• May 26: A moving picture is shown for the first time in Athens.

June

• June 23: Angelos Lambrou breaks the Greek record in the 100m with 11.0.
• June 24: Aris defeat Ethnikos Piraeus 3-1 to clinch the first football championship in Greek history.

July

• July 5: Eleftherios Venizelos' Laiko Komma win 178 (of 250) parliamentary seats in the national elections.

November

• November 4: Legendary goalkeeper Achilleas Grammatikopoulos debuts for Olympiakos. Grammatikopoulos will remain Olympiakos' keeper until 1944.
• November 6: Greece acknowledges Albania's rule over Northern Epirus

Births

February

• February 22: Grigoris Afxentiou, hero of the EOKA struggle.

March

• March 9: Yiannis Papantoniou, footballer.
• March 10: Yiannis Nembidis, footballer.

May

• May 30: Alan Ashman, former coach of Olympiakos.

June

• June 12: Petros Molyviatis, politician
• June 23: Spiros Zagoreos, Laika singer

July

• July 22: Nick Galifianakis, Greek-American politician.

November

• November 27: Alekos Alexandrakis, actor

December

• December 10: John Colicos, Greek-Canadian actor.
• December 23: Chronis Aidonidis, folklore singer, born in Karoti, Evros

Deaths

July

• July 20: Kostas Karyotakis, poet - a suicide

Unknown

• Stephanos Skouloudis, politician, Prime Minister