December 28

Events

• 1820: Grigoris Papaflessas returns to Peloponnesus from Constantinople
• 1909: Eleftherios Venizelos arrives in Athens on invitation by the reformist Military League.
• 1944: British ships start to evacuate the remnants of Napoleon Zervas' EDES forces off the Greek mainland to the island of Corfu.
• 1946: Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Athina Mary Livanos, daughter of Stavros Livanos another shipping magnate.
• 1996: The SS "Dystos" sinks off the coast of Euboea. Twenty passengers drown.

Sports

• 1991: First All-Star basketball game in Greece. A team of Greek players faces a team of foreigners playing in the Greek championship. A dunk by John Hutson thrashes the board.

Births

• 1946: Lefteris Poupakis, football player
• 1973: Alex Dimitriades, Greek-Australian actor

Deaths

• 2019: Thanos Mikroutsikos, composer