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==Events== | ==Events== | ||
*[[1944]]: Communist resistance group [[ELAS]] attack and annihilate [[EKKA]], a republican resistance group. EKKA leader, [[Dimitrios Psaros]], is captured and executed. | *[[1944]]: Communist resistance group [[ELAS]] attack and annihilate [[EKKA]], a republican resistance group. EKKA leader, [[Dimitrios Psaros]], is captured and executed. | ||
| + | *[[1994]]: [[Andreas Papandreou]] is re-elected party leader of [[PASOK]]. | ||
| + | ===Sports=== | ||
| + | *[[2001]]: [[Marousi BC|Marousi]] win the Saporta Cup after defeating Chalon 74-72. [[Vangelis Vourtzoumis]] becomes the first Greek player to win three European basketball trophies with three different clubs: Cup-Winners Cup in [[1993]] with [[Aris BC|Aris]]; Champions' Cup in [[1996]] with [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] and Saporta Cup with Marousi in 2001. | ||
==Births== | ==Births== | ||
Revision as of 10:18, April 16, 2006
Events
- 1944: Communist resistance group ELAS attack and annihilate EKKA, a republican resistance group. EKKA leader, Dimitrios Psaros, is captured and executed.
- 1994: Andreas Papandreou is re-elected party leader of PASOK.
Sports
- 2001: Marousi win the Saporta Cup after defeating Chalon 74-72. Vangelis Vourtzoumis becomes the first Greek player to win three European basketball trophies with three different clubs: Cup-Winners Cup in 1993 with Aris; Champions' Cup in 1996 with Panathinaikos and Saporta Cup with Marousi in 2001.
Births
- 1910: Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, politician, writer
Deaths
- 1944: Dimitrios Psaros, resistance leader
- 1974: Sotiris Spatharis, master of the "shadow theatre" (Karagiozis)
- 1985: Takis Miliadis, comic