August 29

Events

1824: The Battle of Gerontas takes place.
1828: A French force of 16,000 men lands in Messenia to force Ibrahim Pasha out of Peloponnesus.
1878: The first Cyprus newspaper, "Kypros-Cyprus", hits the stands in Nicosia. It consisted of two pages in Greek and two pages in English.
1949: The Battle of Grammos-Vitsi ends in a decisive victory for the national forces who are now in firm control of all of Greece. The Greek Civil War, for all practical purposes, is over.
1960: A woman - Stavroula Gouvoussi - is executed for the first time in Greece for a crime: she had strangled her pregnant daughter-in-law
1962: PM Constantine Karamanlis inaugurates the Athens - Lamia national route.
1975: PM Constantine Karamanlis converts the death sentences handed out to the Junta strongmen to life imprisonment sentences with the words "when I say 'life imprisonment', I MEAN 'life imprisonment'"!.
2004: The closing ceremonies are held for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Anna Vissi, Dionisis Savvopoulos, Marinella and other top Greek singers give memorable performances.

1987: First Super Cup held in Greece. Olympiakos vs OFI (1-0)
1990: Andreas Varikas, manager of Panionios BC dies aged 45. Panionios hold a basketball tournament every year in his honor.
2004: Alexandros Nikolaidis wins the silver medal in the 80kgs of taekwondo after losing in the final from Korean Sung Moon Dae at the Athens Olympic Games.