1960

Events

March

• March 19: The remains of poet Andreas Kalvos arrive in Greece from England for re-burial.

April

• April 30: Greece defeat Israel 2-1 thanks to two late Babis Serafeidis goals.

May

• May 5: Sophoklis Venizelos calls for the legalisation of the Communist Party of Greece.
• May 22: Kostas Sfikas breaks the Greek record in the triple jump with 15.45m.

June

• June 19: Giorgos Papavasiliou breaks the Greek record for the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:45.8

July

• July 3: Athens daily "To Vima" announces it will no longer print two obsolete diacritics of the Greek language: the grave accent ("vareia") and the iota subscript ("ypogegrammeni").
• July 6: The constitution of the newly-established Republic of Cyprus is finalised.
• July 22: Giorgos Marsellos breaks the Greek record in the high jump with 1.97m.
• July 24: AEK lose 3-2 to Panionios on the last match day of the 1960 Football Championship. The unexpected result allows Panathinaikos to catch AEK and contest the title in a playoff game.
• July 31: Panathinaikos win the first Greek league title after beating AEK 2-1 in a playoff game.
• July 31: The first legislative elections take place in the newly-established Republic of Cyprus. 35 Greeks and 15 Turks are elected in the unicameral House of Representatives.

August

• August 16: Cyprus is officially proclaimed a republic with Archbishop Makarios III as president and Dr Fazil Kucuk as vice-president.
• August 26: A woman - Stavroula Gouvoussi - is executed for the first time in Greece for a crime: she had drowned her pregnant daughter-in-law.

September

• September 2: Dimitris Gouvousis is executed for the murder of his wife. One week earlier, his mother became the first Greek woman ever executed for the same crime.
• September 8: Crown Prince Constantine wins gold at the Rome Olympiad in Dragon class sailing. His crew consisted of Odysseus Eskitzoglou and Giorgos Zaimis.
• September 17: Cyprus is accepted into the UN.

October

• October 1: Cyprus is officially declared an independent state.
• October 8: General Georgios Grivas announces the formation of a new political party: the "National Recovery Movement".
• October 27: Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis inaugurates Kaftantzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki
• October 31: Olympiakos centre back, Mimis Stefanakos, weds actress Martha Karayianni.

November

• November 6: Panathinaikos play their first official European competitive football game against the Czechoslovakian team of Spartak Hradec Kralove for the European Champions Cup and lose 1-0.

Births

January

• January 12: Giorgos Togias, footballer.
• January 13: Takis Lemonis, football player and coach.
• January 22: Markos Kyprianou, Cypriot foreign minister.

March

• March 29: Marina Sirtis, Greek-British actress.

April

• April 7: Giorgos Skartados, footballer.

June

• June 1: Georgios Lilikas, Foreign Minister of Cyprus
• June 19: Eucleides Tsakalotos, economist, professor and politician

October

• October 29: Stathis Pehlivanidis, Greek-Soviet football player.

Deaths

February

• February 20: Vasilis Logothetidis, actor.

May

• May 17: Ioannis Georgiadis, fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist

June

• June 6: Christos Mantikas, athlete.

November

• November 2: Dimitris Mitropoulos, music composer

Unknown

• Miltiades Iatridis, naval officer