May 11

Events

• 330: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire.
• 1879: Dimitrios Soutsos is elected Mayor of Athens.
• 1933: Gen. Ioannis Metaxas and several members of the Popular Party government suggest that Eleftherios Venizelos be prosecuted as responsible for the unsuccessful coup d'etat of March 6.
• 1934: Labour demonstrations in Kalamata turn bloody as police kill four demostrators.
• 1958: Constantine Karamanlis is reelected PM with ERE winning 41.16% of the vote. Surprisingly, the United Democratic Left comes in second with 24.42%.
• 1964: Two Greek officers and a Greek Cypriot policeman are machine-gunned to death in Famagusta. Another Greek officer is injured. The four men were in a vehicle that was stopped by Turkish-Cypriot irregulars.
• 1984: The Security Council of the UN condemns the exhange of ambassadors between Turkey and the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"

Sports

• 1952: Rigas Efsthathiadis breaks the Greeks record in the pole vault with 4.17m.
• 1993: Olympiakos win the first professional Basketball Championship (organized by ESAK) when Panathinaikos refuse to play the last playoff game at Peace and Friendship Stadium.
• 2019: PAOK win the Greek Cup for the third time in a row after defeating AEK for the third time in a row (this time with 1-0), and the so called “Double” for the first time after clinching the championship three weeks earlier.

Births

• 483: Justinian I, Byzantine emperor
• 1771: Lascarina Bouboulina, heroine of the Greek Revolution
• 1942: Former Princess Irene of Greece
• 1946: Milton Viera, footballer

Deaths

• 912: Leo VI, Byzantine emperor.
• 1900: Archbishop Sofronios III of Cyprus.
• 1990: Stratos Dionysiou, laika singer
• 1999: Petros Vouzounerakis, footballer
• 2003: Vangelis Perpiniadis, singer, composer
• 2004: George Zongolopoulos, sculptor
• 2005: Michalis Genitsaris, rebetiko singer