1951
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Events
January
- January 26: Greek forces suffer their first casualties in the Korean War: 3 dead, 2 wounded, 1 missing in action at Hill 406 north of Inchon.
April
- April 1: The Greek Parliament approves the law giving women the right to vote.
- April 15: Conservatives win the mayoral elections in Athens, Thessaloniki and Piraeus.
May
- May 31: Right-wing officers belonging to IDEA stage an attempted coup which ends after the intervention of Gen Alexandros Papagos.
July
August
- August 1: The United Democratic Left (EDA) party is founded by leftists.
- August 16: Jason Zirganos swims across the English Channel in 14hrs 1min.
September
- September 9: Gen. Alexandros Papagos wins a small plurality (36.5%) in the general elections but is unable to form a government.
- September 20: NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as new members.
October
- October 19: The trial of Nikos Beloyiannis commences.
November
- November 1: Nikolaos Plastiras forms a government
- November 21: It is announced that the Prime Minister, general Nikolaos Plastiras, is seriously ill. Vice President Sophoklis Venizelos returns urgently from his official visit to the United States.
December
- December 21: The Hellenic Parliament approves a new proposed Constitution for Greece. It will go into effect on January 2, 1952 and will be known as the 1952 Constitution.
Births
February
- February 14: Christos Folias, politician
April
- April 10: Kyriakos Onesiphorou, athlete (400m, 200m)
May
- May 8: Michalis Liapis, politician
- May 23: Antonis Samaras, politician
August
- August 27: Kikis Kazamias, Cypriot politician.
November
- November 23: Maik Galakos, footballer
Unknown
- Giorgos Delikaris, footballer
- Colonel Callan, Greek-Cypriot mercenary.
Deaths
January
- January 3: Georgios Drosinis, writer, poet
- January 11: Grigorios Xenopoulos, writer.
June
- June 19: Angelos Sikelianos, poet
- June 28: Konstantinos Sismanoglou, national benefactor.
August
- August 6: Stylianos Seferiadis, member of the Academy of Athens.
October
- October 10: Georgios Vlachos, newspaper publisher.
