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Events

April

April 6: Commencement of the first modern Olympic Games. By the Julian calendar, the games commenced on March 25 - the national holiday of Greece - as a symbolic gesture.
April 7: Leonidas Pyrgos becomes the first Greek to win an Olympic Gold Medal after defeating Frenchman Peronnet at fencing.

Births

March

March 1: Dimitris Mitropoulos, conductor

October

October 30: Kostas Karyotakis, poet

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Years