1996

Events

January 15: PSAT awards for Best Athletes of 1995, for the first time in the presence of Kostis Stefanopoulos, president of the Hellenic republic. Pyrros Dimas becomes the first athlete after Nikos Galis to be elected three times Athlete of The Year
January 16: Andreas Papandreou resigns as Prime Minister of Greece.
January 22: Costas Simitis becomes 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 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 8: Cypriot parties, on both sides of the divide, condemn the assassination of Turkish-Cypriot reporter Kutlu Adali.
July 27: Leonidas Kokkas wins silver in weightlifting in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
July 28: Greek gymnast Yiannis Melissanidis wins gold in the floor exercises at the Atlanta Olympic Games.
July 28: Greek weightlifter Kakhi Kakhiasvili wins gold in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
July 30: Nikos Kaklamanakis wins the olympic gold in Mistral class at the Atlanta Olympics.

August 3: Greece beats Brazil 91-72 during the Atlanta Olympic Games Basketball Tournament. Panagiotis Yiannakis, who participates for the last time with the national basketball team, scores 3 points and reaches 5291 in 351 games, being first in front of Panagiotis Fassoulas (2384 / 243) and Fanis Christodoulou (2255 / 219) in caps.
August 3: Niki Bakogianni wins the silver medal in high jump with 2.03m at the Atlanta Olympics. Stefka Konstadinova of Bulgaria takes first place with 2.05m.
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.

September 9: The government of Cyprus publishes evidence that Solomos Solomou was shot dead by Kenan Akin, "minister of agriculture" of the so-called Turkish Republic of N. Cyprus.
September 13: The first TV debate in Greek political history takes place as Costas Simitis takes on Miltiades Ewert prior to the general elections.
September 22: Costas Simitis' PASOK wins the Greek general elections.

October 13: Cypriot Petros Kakkoulis is shot dead by Turkish occupation troops as he was gathering snails near Achna.
October 30: Panagiotis Giannakis debuts on the bench of the National Basketball Team of Greece, in a game against Israel.

December 30: First Eurostars (the European All-Star Basketball Game) is held in Istanbul. Panagiotis Fassoulas, Giorgos Sigalas, David Rivers, Nikos Economou and Yurij Zdovc play for the East (led by Dusan Ivkovic)