2004
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Events
March
- March 7: Costas Karamanlis is elected Greek Prime Minister over Giorgos Papandreou. Karamanlis' New Democracy Party receives 45.36% of the vote whereas Papandreou's PASOK receives 40.55%. The Communist Party KKE is third with a 5.90% share of the vote.
April
- April 24: Greek Cypriots reject by 75.83% the Annan Plan for Cyprus reunification.
May
- May 3: Nikos Magitsis becomes the first Greek to climb Mt. Everest.
June
- June 12 - The Greek National Football Team spoil hosts' (Portugal) party at Euro 2004 by beating the host team 2-1.
- June 25 - The Greek National Football Team advances to the Euro 2004 semi final game after beating France 1-0.
July
- July 1 - The Greek National Football Team advances to the Euro 2004 final game after beating the Czech Republic 1-0 (silver goal, overtime).
- July 4 - The Greek National Football Team beats Portugal at the final game of Euro 2004 and is crowned European Champions.
Deaths
June
- June 11: Xenophon Zolotas, politician
July
- July 29 - Rena Vlahopoulou, actress and singer.