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*[[October 17]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]], first Greek woman to cabinet Minister. | *[[October 17]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]], first Greek woman to cabinet Minister. | ||
Revision as of 09:15, July 19, 2007
Events
January
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.
- February 10: Six Greek workers lose their lives in a ship that burned off Elefsina.
- February 24: An earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale) strikes NE of Peloponnesus near Athens.
March
May
- May 21: Arsonists burn down nearly half the forested areas of Mt. Hymettus.
- 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.
- December 30: Drastic measures are taken to combat pollution in Athens. These include the alternating ban of motor vehicles from the city centre, based on the last digit of their license plate (odd-even).
Births
February
- February 5: Loukas Vyntra, Panathinaikos footballer.
April
- April 1: Antonis Fotsis, basketball player
- April 14: Raul Bravo, footballer
June
- June 4: Giourkas Seitaridis, football player
July
- July 25: Kostas Charalambidis, Cypriot footballer
August
- August 18: Dimitris Salpingidis, footballer
- August 26: Vangelis Moras, footballer
September
- September 20: Dimitris Papadopoulos, footballer
Deaths
May
- May 31: Gyula Lorant, football coach
June
- June 1: Christakis, Laika singer.
October
- October 17: Lina Tsaldari, first Greek woman to cabinet Minister.