Phantis:Selected anniversaries/April 8
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- 1986: Industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos, chairman of Halivourgiki Steel Company and friend of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, was killed while leaving his home in Kolonaki. The Revolutionary Organization 17 November assumed responsibility.
- 1990: New Democracy won the 3rd parliamentary elections held within a year with 46.8% of the vote and 150 seats.
- Births: Dionysios Solomos, the national poet of Greece (1798), Manolis Angelopoulos, singer (1939)
- Deaths: Apostolos Kaldaras, composer (1990).