January 4
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Events
- 1924: Eleftherios Venizelos returns to Athens after 38 months of exile.
- 1956: Newly-appointed PM, Constantine Karamanlis, forms a new party called the National Radical Union (ERE).
Sports
- 1941: Swimmer Georgios Ivanof of Iraklis Salonica, is executed during the German occupation. To honor his memory the club names its basketball court to Ivanofio (Ιβανόφειο) after him.
Births
- 1969: Kostas Frantzeskos, footballer.
Deaths
- 1901: Nikolaos Gyzis, painter.
- 2000: Spiros Markezinis, economist, politician and historian