2009

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Events

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May

  • May 1: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 84-82 in their Euroleague semifinal matchup in Berlin.
  • May 2: Olympiakos win the Greek Football Cup on penalties, after a 4-4 thriller of a final match against AEK.
  • May 3: Panathinaikos defeat CSKA Moscow 73-71 and win their fifth Euroleague title.
  • May 5: Greece's parliament votes against indicting a former minister Aristotelis Pavlidis in a corruption probe that could have forced early elections on the embattled conservative government. The vote over an alleged bribery scandal fell short of the 151 ballots required with only 146 lawmakers voting in favor and 144 against.
  • May 7: A first instance court on Rhodes issues a ruling nullifying a pair of same-sex marriages conducted last June on the isle of Tilos.
  • May 8: Olympiakos Piraeus announces the club are not renewing the contract of coach Ernesto Valverde despite the Spaniard leading the club to the league title and Greek Cup.
  • May 8: Former Greek transport minister, Christos Verelis, resigns his seat in parliament after a prosecutor ordered a corruption probe into a bus contract to Neoplan, a subsidiary of German truckmaker and industrial company MAN AG.
  • May 14: Olympiakos Piraeus play a friendly in Hanoi, losing 1-0 to the national team of Vietnam.
  • May 16: Angeliki Exarchou crushed her national record in the women's 200 breast with a time of 2:27.39 during the first night of long course meter swimming at the Czech Grand Prix. Her performance wiped out the 2:29.44 national mark she set back in 2005.
  • May 18: Greece confirms its first case of H1N1 flu, a student who returned from the United States a few days ago. He was first taken to the hospital by his father in the early hours of the day after experiencing a cough and high fever. After initial tests were conducted, he was told to return home but was later taken by ambulance to the Sismanoglio Hospital after the second test conducted at the Pasteur Institute came out positive, showing he had swine flu.
  • May 18: The United States announces that it is listing Revolutionary Struggle as a foreign terrorist organization after the Greek leftist group attacked US diplomatic and business interests.
  • May 18: Alexander the Great is named "the greatest Greek of all time" in a poll of viewers of Sky TV. Surprisingly, Dr George Papanicolaou wins second place while Theodoros Kolokotronis finishes third.
  • May 29: Former King Constantine, 68, undergoes a successful heart bypass operation at a private hospital in north London

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August

  • August 4: Panathinaikos defeat Sparta Prague 3-0 to overturn their 1-3 loss in the first leg and advance in the Champions' League.
  • August 5: APOEL, despite a 0-1 loss in Belgrade, advance in the Champions' League, defeating Partizan 2-1 in aggregate.
  • August 13: Former AEK and Iraklis basketball player, Lavelle Felton, is shot in Milwaukee, WI, USA. He will die the next day.
  • August 15: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, visits the Orthodox orphanage and the monastery of St George Koudounas in the Prince's Islands.
  • August 20: Eleni Artymata becomes the first Cypriot woman to qualify for the finals of the World Championships in athletics. She did so in the 200m with a time of 22.64 - a new Cypriot record.
  • August 21: Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus wins the silver medal in the high jump at the Berlin World Championship of athletics with a 2.32m performance.
  • August 21: A wildfire breaks out late in the village of Grammatiko about 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Athems and quickly spreads to neighboring villages.
  • August 22: More than 70 wildfires break out throughout Greece.
  • August 24: Helped by a lull in winds, fire fighters beat back wildfires that swept through suburbs of Athens and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
  • August 26: APOEL FC defeat FC Kobenhavn 3-1 and advance to the group stage of the Champions' League for the first time in their history.
  • August 26: The fires around the Greek capital were put out or contained to tiny areas, after razing 80 square miles (210 square kilometers) of forest and hillside scrub.
  • August 27: A Greek fire-fighting plane crashes while battling a blaze on the Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia, killing the pilot.

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