June 11

Events

• 1184 BC: According to Eratosthenes, Troy falls to the Greeks
• 1917: King Constantine I leaves Greece, exiled by his political opponents.
• 1963: Constantine Karamanlis resigned the premiership after a disagreement with King Paul of Greece
• 1975: The Constitution of Greece is ratified.

Sports

• 1980: Greece participate for the first time in the final phase of a major football tournament. They lose 1-0 to Holland in their opening match of Euro 1980, after East German referee Prokop inexplicably awards the Dutch a penalty when forward Naninga charges and injures Greek keeper Vasilis Konstantinou.

Births

• 1959: Pantelis Thalassinos, singer, songwriter

Deaths

• 323 BC: Alexander the Great in Babylon.
• 1969: Rita Abatzi, rebetiko singer.
• 2004: Xenophon Zolotas, an eminent Greek economist, served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.