1961

Events

April

• April 20: Father Kosmas Aitolos is proclaimed a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• April 21: Scientific research determines that the average life expectancy of a Greek male is 57 years and that of a Greek female is 62 years.

May

• May 23: Ten men are put on trial in Thessaloniki charged with spying on behalf of Bulgaria.

July

• July 4: Olympiakos stun World Champions FC Santos 2-1 (with Pele) at Leoforos Alexandras Stadium (Antonis Poseidon, Tasos Sourounis). Fans protested the ticket price of 35 drachmas -- three times more than the regular 10 drachmas ticket price of the times.

September

• September 9: AEK kick off the 1961-1962 season with an 8-0 away win at Aegaleo. Kostas Nestoridis scores three goals, Andreas Stamatiadis and Thanasis Gouvas two each, with Giorgos Petridis contributing one.
• September 17: Adnan Menderes is hanged in the Prince's Islands. Among the accusations brought against the former Turkish PM was his tolerance of the Istanbul Pogrom against the Greek minority.

October

• October 20: Dr. Fazil Kucuk vetoes the creation of a single Cypriot army.

November

• November 4: Constantine Karamanlis is re-elected President, after winning the elections where, as they later pronounced, "even the trees voted !"
• November 6: Torrential rains cause floodings in Athens and the suburbs. 40 dead and thousands of flood victims.

Births

March

• March 1: Savvas Kofidis, football player and coach.

June

• June 25: Antonis Mitzelos, guitarist, songwriter for Termites

July

• July 13: Stelios Manolas, football player
• July 29: Dimitris Saravakos, football player

Deaths

July

• July 8: Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister during the Nazi occupation of Greece.