February 10

Events

• 754: The Council of Hieria begins.
• 1891: Panellinios Gymnastic Club is founded by 27 distinguished members of Athens' high society, materialising an idea by Nikolaos Kotselopoulos.
• 1941: The Italian Airforce bombards Thessaloniki and Patra.
• 1947: The Treaty of Paris awards the Dodecanese Islands to Greece.
• 1947: The New Party is founded by economist Spyros Markezinis.
• 1981: Six Greek workers lose their lives in a ship that burned off Elefsina.
• 1991: Athens mayor Antonis Tritsis visits the bombed capital of Iraq, Baghdad

Sports

• 1999: Former Panathinaikos No12 basketball player Petros Panagiotarakos dies aged 56. On November 14, 1962 he made his debut with the national basketball team in a game against Yugoslavia (70-81). He was capped 54 times (404 points).
• 1891: Twenty seven distinguished members of Athenian society found Panellinios, materializing an idea by Nikolaos Kotselopoulos
• 2013: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.

Births

• 1896: Sir John Harding, military governor of Cyprus.
• 1926: Kostas Mountakis, Cretan singer.
• 1936: Nadia Konstantopoulou, elafro singer.
• 1938: Giorgos Petridis, footballer.
• 1939: Jenny Vanou, singer.
• 1961: George Stephanopoulos, Greek-American political adviser
• 1967: Giorgos Kasnaferis, international referee.

Deaths

• 1913: Kostas Tsiklitiras, Olympic Gold Medallist, during the First Balkan War, from meningitis.
• 1956: Emmanouil Tsouderos, banker, Prime Minister
• 1975: Nikos Kavvadias, poet
• 1999: Petros Panagiotarakos, aged 56, basketball player for Panathinaikos BC.
• 2025: Takis Oikonomopoulos, footballer