September 25

Events

• 1838: Daily "Eon" hits the newsstands. It is published by historian Ioannis Philemon and will cease publication in 1891.
• 1974: Communist daily "Rizospastis" ("Radical") reappears on the newstands after an absence of 27 years.
• 1982: Sofia Sakorafa breaks the women's world record in the javelin with a throw of 74.20m.
• 2005 - Greece beat Germany 78-62 in Belgrade to capture the European Basketball Championship for only the second time in their history.

Births

• 1937: Takis Loukanidis, footballer
• 1971: Nikos Boudouris, basketball player

Deaths

• 1849: Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, better known as "Nikitaras", revolutionary
• 1965: Georgios Stanotas, general
• 1970: Minos Matsas, recording industry executive