1996

Events

January

• January 16: Andreas Papandreou resigns as Prime Minister of Greece.
• January 22: Costas Simitis become Prime Minister after Andreas Papandreou's resignation due to ill health.
• January 23: Greece submits her candidacy as host country of the 2004 Olympics.

August

• August 14: Solomos Solomou is shot dead by a Turkish Cypriot politician at Derynia, Cyprus.

Deaths

March

• March 18: Odysseus Elytis, Nobel prize winning poet, born in Heraklion, Crete

June

• June 23: Andreas Papandreou, politician
• June 30: Lakis Petropoulos, football player and coach.

September

• September 17: Spiro Agnew, Greek-American Vice-President of the United States.

October

• October 21: Georgios Zoitakis, member of the military regime that ruled Greece from 1967-1974