1965
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Events
January
- January 1: OTE begins offering automated services to subscribers; weather and on duty hospital information.
- January 22: Aliki Vougiouklaki marries Dimitris Papamichail.
May
- May 9: After 1,088 scoreless minutes, Panathinaikos goalkeeper, Takis Economopoulos, finally concedes a goal. The last time he had been scored against was January 17, 1965.
July
- July 5: Maria Callas appears for the last time in an opera, at Covent Garden in London, in "Tosca" directed by Franco Zefirelli.
- July 15: PM Georgios Papandreou's government is brought down by King Constantine II.
August
- August 20: Elias Tsirimokos is asked to form a government after Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas fails to get a vote of confidence in Parliament.
September
- September 17: Stephanos Stephanopoulos is asked to form a government after Elias Tsirimokos fails to get a vote of confidence in Parliament.
December
- December 7: Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI agreed to a revocation of the mutual excommunication decrees of 1054; this historic event was accomplished through simultaneous services in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the patriarchal church in Constantinople.
Births
May
- May 22: Fanis Christodoulou, basketball player.
June
- June 13: Vasilis Karapialis, footballer
July
- July 10: Former Princess Alexia.
Deaths
May
- May 5: Nikos Gounaris, elafro singer.