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.

June

• June 5: Giorgos Donis becomes the most expensive Greek football player after signing with Blackburn for 1.1 billion drachmas. He also becomes the first Greek to play in the Premiership
• June 5: EPAE and PSAP agree on applying the new regulation concerning free trading of players from the European Union
• June 16: The Greek Athletics Championships celebrated 100 years at OAKA Stadium. Five new records were set: Niki Bakogianni (1.97m in high jump), Olga Vasdeki (14.48m in triple jump), Alexandros Papadimitriou (77.84m in hammer), Stelios Bisbas (13.61 in 110m hurdles) and Katerina Koffa (22.66 in 200m)

July

• July 30: Nikos Kaklamanakis wins the olympic gold in Mistral class at the Atlanta Olympics.

August

• August 11: Tasos Isaak is clubbed to death by Turks in Derynia, Cyprus.
• August 14: Solomos Solomou is shot dead by a Turkish Cypriot politician in 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