March 9

Events

• 1822: Greek revolutionaries, under Theodoros Kolokotronis, defeat the Turkish army at Saravali, Achaea
• 1941: The Italian Spring offensive against the Greek forces commences.
• 1956: Archbishop Makarios III is seized at Nicosia Airport by the British colonial authorities in Cyprus and exiled to the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean.
• 1959: EOKA suspend their activity in response to the London-Zurich accords.
• 1971: Two Greek rivers, the Evros and the Pineios flood causing damages to the produce in their respective areas.
• 2012: Greece achieves the biggest national debt writedown in history (€105 billion) as the vast majority of its private creditors sign up to a bond swap.

Sports

• 1926: Panaitolikos is founded.
• 1941: Panathinaikos defeat a team of British aviators 6-2.
• 1971: En route to the 1971 European Cup Final, Panathinaikos draw away to Everton 1-1 in the quarterfinals. The scorer of PAO's goal is number 9 (Antonis Antoniadis) who scored his 9th goal in Europe, on the 9th of the month, 9 minutes before time, exactly at 9:00PM!
• 2011: Panachaiki president, Alexis Kougias, produces tapes which he claims are evidence of attempted bribery of referees in domestic and European matches of Greeks clubs.
• 2025: Emmanouil Karalis wins gold at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Births

• 1896: Archbishop of Cyprus Leontios
• 1921: Dimitris Horn, stage actor.
• 1928: Yiannis Papantoniou, footballer.
• 1956: Manthos Katsoulis, basketball player

Deaths

• 1924: Panagiotis Danglis, general and politician.
• 2007: Yiangos Simantiris, footballer.