May 11

Events

• 380: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire.
• 1934: Labour demonstrations in Kalamata turn bloody as police kill four demostrators.
• 1964: Two Greek officers and a Greek Cypriot policeman are machine-gunned to death in Famagusta. Another Greek officer is injured. The four men were in a vehicle that was stopped by Turkish-Cypriot irregulars.

Sports

• 1993: Olympiakos win the first professional Basketball Championship (organized by ESAK) when Panathinaikos refuse to play the last playoff game at Peace and Friendship Stadium.

Births

• 483: Justinian I, Byzantine emperor
• 1771: Lascarina Bouboulina, heroine of the Greek Revolution

Deaths

• 1900: Archbishop Sofronios III of Cyprus.
• 1990: Stratos Dionysiou, laika singer
• 1999: Petros Vouzounerakis, footballer
• 2003: Vangelis Perpiniadis, singer, composer
• 2005: Michalis Genitsaris, rebetiko singer