January 30

Events

• 330 BC: Alexander the Great leads a united Greek army into Persepolis.
• 1889: Maria Vetsera, a 17-year old baroness of Greek descent, commits suicide with her lover, Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary.
• 1923: Greece and Turkey sign the agreement to exchange populations. The Greeks of Constantinople and the Turks and other Muslims of Western Thrace are excluded from this mandatory exchange.
• 1925: Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople is deported by the Turkish government.
• 1929: Greek women acquire the right to vote.
• 1995: Greek archaeologist, Lena Souvlatzi, announces in Egypt that she has discovered the tomb of Alexander the Great.

Sports

• 1911: Anorthosis Famagusta FC is founded.
• 1968: Junta-appointed Secretary General of Athletics, Lt. Col. Kostas Aslanidis, blasts corruption in football in a speech in Thessaloniki. He alleges that Panathinaikos fixed games, that footballers Tzekos Ballarinis and Kostas Vallianos threw games for money and that several referees and linesmen had been paid off.
• 2010: Aphrodite Skafida breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the pole vault with 4.41m.

Births

• 1971: Giorgos S. Georgiadis, footballer
• 2002: Christos Tzolis, footballer.

Deaths

• 1975: Orestes Makris, actor.
• 1993: Christos Vakalopoulos, director
• 2007: Nikos Kourkoulos, actor

Feast days

• Today is Three Hierarchs Day, a feast day for Greek schools. It honours the memory of:

John Chrysostom, Gregory Nazianzenus and Saint Basil.