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Events
April
- April 6: Commencement of the first modern Olympic Games. By the Julian calendar, the games commenced on March 25 - the national holiday of Greece - as a symbolic gesture.
- April 7: Leonidas Pyrgos becomes the first Greek to win an Olympic Gold Medal after defeating Frenchman Peronnet at fencing.
- April 10: Spiros Loues wins the marathon in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
Births
March
- March 1: Dimitris Mitropoulos, conductor
October
- October 30: Kostas Karyotakis, poet