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*[[December 5]]: Adultery is decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery is revoked. | *[[December 5]]: Adultery is decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery is revoked. | ||
*[[December 10]]: [[Evangelos Averoff]] is elected Chairman of the [[New Democracy]] party. | *[[December 10]]: [[Evangelos Averoff]] is elected Chairman of the [[New Democracy]] party. | ||
| + | *[[December 15]]: PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, visits [[Athens]] on an invitation by Prime Minister [[Andreas Papandreou]]. | ||
==Births== | ==Births== | ||
Revision as of 08:57, July 19, 2007
Events
February
- February 8: 21 young fans are killed and 32 are injured, at the end of the Olympiakos - AEK derby, after Gate 7, which they were trying to exit, was left closed.
May
- May 31: PAOK coach Gyula Lorant suffers a heart attack and dies during a football match.
September
- September 20: Dimitris Michas breaks the Greek record in the triple jump with 17.04m. His record will stand for 17 years.
October
- October 18: Andreas Papandreou is elected PM of Greece as PASOK triumph in the general elections, winning 48.06% of the vote.
- October 21: Andreas Papandreou is sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece.
November
- November 23: The monotonic system (μονοτονικό σύστημα) is implemented at schools around the country in place of the polytonic system (πολυτονικό σύστημα)
December
- December 5: Adultery is decriminalized. Article 357 of the Penal Code that called for imprisonment as a penalty for adultery is revoked.
- December 10: Evangelos Averoff is elected Chairman of the New Democracy party.
- December 15: PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, visits Athens on an invitation by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.
Births
February
- February 5: Loukas Vyntra, Panathinaikos footballer.
April
- April 1: Antonis Fotsis, basketball player
June
- June 4: Giourkas Seitaridis, football player
Deaths
May
- May 31: Gyula Lorant, football coach
October
- October 17: Lina Tsaldari, first Greek woman to cabinet Minister.