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*[[December 3]] : Prime Minister [[Georgios Papandreou]] announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students. | *[[December 3]] : Prime Minister [[Georgios Papandreou]] announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students. | ||
*[[December 9]]: [[Constantine Karamanlis]] resigns from the leadership of his party, [[National Radical Union]] (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France. | *[[December 9]]: [[Constantine Karamanlis]] resigns from the leadership of his party, [[National Radical Union]] (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France. | ||
| + | *[[December 10]]: The Nobel for Literature is awarded for the first time to a Greek; to [[George Seferis]]. In his award speech the poet is quoted as saying: "I belong to a small country. Our place is small but it has a huge tradition... The [[Greek language]] has never stopped being spoken..." | ||
*[[December 21]]: The [[Cyprus]] crisis of 1963-1964 begins with a firefight in [[Nicosia]] that leaves one Greek Cypriot policeman and two Turkish Cypriot civilians dead. | *[[December 21]]: The [[Cyprus]] crisis of 1963-1964 begins with a firefight in [[Nicosia]] that leaves one Greek Cypriot policeman and two Turkish Cypriot civilians dead. | ||
*[[December 27]]: Student rallies take place in [[Athens]] and [[Thessaloniki]] in favor of a [[Enosis|union]] between [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]]. | *[[December 27]]: Student rallies take place in [[Athens]] and [[Thessaloniki]] in favor of a [[Enosis|union]] between [[Greece]] and [[Cyprus]]. | ||
Revision as of 12:25, June 27, 2007
Contents
Events
January
- January 13: A mudslide kills 13 persons in Mikro Chorio, Evritania prefecture.
April
- April 21: MP Gregoris Lambrakis marches alone in the Marathon to Athens peace rally that was banned by the police.
May
- May 22: MP Grigoris Lambrakis is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in Thessaloniki. He will die five days later.
- May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, a leftist politician, succumbs to his injuries of May 22.
June
- June 2: AEK defeat Iraklis 5-0 for the Greek League. All five goals are scored by Kostas Nestoridis.
- June 11: Constantine Karamanlis resigned the premiership after a disagreement with King Paul of Greece
- June 16: King Paul of Greece appoints Panagiotis Pipinelis as Prime Minster following Constantine Karamanlis' resignation
- June 23: AEK celebrate their first post-World War II championship as they draw 3-3 with Panathinaikos in a playoff game. Mimis Papaioannou (2) and Kostas Nestoridis score for the champions (the latter directly from a corner kick).
July
- July 1: Aristotle Onassis acquires Skorpios island off the coast of Lefkada.
September
- September 18: Olympiakos defeat Levski Sofia 1-0 in Istanbul and are crowned Champions of the Balkans. Centre back Mimis Stefanakos headed home the winning goal in the 87th minute.
November
- November 3: Georgios Papandreou's political party, Center Union, emerges the winner in the national elections held, and forms a minority government with 42.2% of the votes.
- November 27: The players of PAOK walk off the pitch when the Bulgarian referee denies them an obvious penalty against Olympiakos. Olympiakos are awarded the match 2-0 (forfeit).
- November 30: Archbishop Makarios III proposes 13 amendments to the constitution of Cyprus.
December
- December 3 : Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students.
- December 9: Constantine Karamanlis resigns from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.
- December 10: The Nobel for Literature is awarded for the first time to a Greek; to George Seferis. In his award speech the poet is quoted as saying: "I belong to a small country. Our place is small but it has a huge tradition... The Greek language has never stopped being spoken..."
- December 21: The Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964 begins with a firefight in Nicosia that leaves one Greek Cypriot policeman and two Turkish Cypriot civilians dead.
- December 27: Student rallies take place in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of a union between Greece and Cyprus.
- December 30: Banker Ioannis Paraskevopoulos forms a caretaker government as elections are proclaimed for February 1964.
- December 30: The Green Line, separating the Greek and Turkish sectors of Lefkosia, is agreed upon by the two communities.
Births
March
- March 8: Juan Gilberto Funes, played for Olympiakos in the late 1980s.
April
- April 24: Lajos Detari, footballer
May
- May 12: Panagiotis Fasoulas, basketball player
June
- June 14: Toni Savevski, football player and coach
- June 25: George Michael, Greek-British singer
August
- August 13: Jozef Wandzik, footballer
October
- October 18: Jimmy Patikas, Greek-Australian footballer
- October 20: Nikos Tsiantakis, footballer
Deaths
May
- May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, politician
