1965

Events

January

• January 1: OTE begins offering automated services to subscribers; weather and on duty hospital information.
• January 9: The Greek government officially announces that 4,000 Greeks were forced to leave Istanbul during 1964 - the year of the Cyprus crisis.
• January 22: Aliki Vougiouklaki marries Dimitris Papamichail.

February

• February 23: EIR (present-day ERT) broadcasts on Television for the first time.

May

• May 9: After 1,088 scoreless minutes, Panathinaikos goalkeeper, Takis Economopoulos, finally concedes a goal. The last time he had been scored against was January 17, 1965.
• May 12: AEK draw 5-time European Champions Real Madrid 3-3 in a friendly before 29,000 fans. Mimis Papaioannou (2) and Kostas Papageorgiou score for the Greek side.

July

• July 5: Maria Callas appears for the last time in an opera, at Covent Garden in London, in "Tosca" directed by Franco Zefirelli.
• July 15: PM Georgios Papandreou's government is brought down by King Constantine II.

August

• August 20: Elias Tsirimokos is asked to form a government after Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas fails to get a vote of confidence in Parliament.

September

• September 17: Stephanos Stephanopoulos is asked to form a government after Elias Tsirimokos fails to get a vote of confidence in Parliament.

December

• December 7: Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to a revocation of the mutual excommunication decrees of 1054; this historic event was accomplished through simultaneous services in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the patriarchal church in Constantinople.

Births

January

• January 17: Nikos Nioplias, football player and coach.

March

• March 29: Voula Patoulidou, athlete.

May

• May 22: Fanis Christodoulou, basketball player.

June

• June 13: Vasilis Karapialis, footballer

July

• July 10: Former Princess Alexia.

Deaths

May

• May 5: Nikos Gounaris, elafro singer.