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==Events==
===January===
*[[January 14]]: [[Alexandros Lykourezos]] is elected President of the [[EPAE]].
*[[January 16]]: A wave of extreme weather conditions (thunderstorms, snowfall and 10 Beaufort gales) cost the lives of two persons: a football fan, 55-year-old Stamatis Georgioudakis, crushed by a metal door in [[Xanthi Stadium]] and a passenger of a snow-plough was electrocuted when his vehicle got tangled with a severed live wire at the [[Chalkida]] - Edipsos National Highway.
*[[January 27]]: During a thunderstorm, a lighting bolt hits a support cable of the [[Rio-Antirrio Bridge]]. The fire is placed under control immediately, but questions arise over the security of the bridge.
===February===
*[[February 8]]: [[Karolos Papoulias]] was elected President of the Hellenic Republic. His election received the largest majority ever, with 279 votes in favor.
*[[February 14]]: [[Minos Kyriakou]] is elected, almost unanimously, president of the [[Hellenic Olympic Committee]], succeeding [[Lambis Nikolaou]]
*[[February 19]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] won the Greek Basketball Cup after achieving a 72-67 victory over [[Aris BC|Aris]] at Lindo in [[Heraklion]], [[Crete]]. This was the eighth time Panathinaikos won the Basketball Cup, equalling Aris' successes.
===March===
*[[March 6]]: The [[Spercheios]] River floods causing extensive property damage in the [[Phthiotis prefecture]] of [[Greece]].
===May===
*[[May 21]]: [[Greece]] win the Eurovision contest for the first time thanks to [[Elena Paparizou]]'s song "My Number One".
===June===
*[[June 11]]: [[Aphrodite Skafida]] sets a new Greek record in the women's [[pole vault]] with a jump of 4.48m.
*[[June 14]]: [[Maria Papadopoulou]] sets a new Greek record in the women's [[800m]] with a time of 1.59.79.
*[[June 16]]: For the first time ever in its history, the [[National Football Team|Greek football team]] participated in the Confederations Cup held in Germany as the [[Euro 2004|European Champion]]. Greece faced Brazil in its first match and lost 3-0.
===July===
*[[July 26]]: [[Anorthosis Famagusta FC|Anorthosis Famagusta]] defeat Trabzonspor 3-1 in [[Nicosia]].
*[[July 30]]: The Greek waterpolo team wins the bronze medal, the first medal in a big tournament, at the XI FINA World Championships in Montreal, Canada defeating Croatia with 11-10 at extra time. [[Giorgos Afroudakis]] scores the winning goal 11 seconds before the end of the game.
===August===
*[[August 11]]: Flooding occurs in the northeastern part of [[Evros prefecture]], between [[Orestiada]] and [[Didymoteicho]].*[[August 14]] - : The [[Helios Airways Flight 522]] air disasterclaims the lives of 121 persons.*[[August 18]]: [[Kostas Filippidis]] sets a new Greek record in the [[pole vault]] with a jump of 5.75m.*[[August 21]] - : Greece's women's [[Water Polo]] team won the World League final by defeating Russia 13-10 at Kirishi, Russia.
===September===
*[[September 9]]: Vladimir Putin becomes the first Russian state leader to visit [[Mount Athos]].*[[September 25]] - [[National Basketball Team|Greece ]] beat Germany 78-62 in Belgrade to capture the [[Basketball|European Basketball Championship]] for only the second time in their history.===October===*[[October 17]]: A powerful earthquake (6.0 on the Richter scale) strikes [[Samos]] and the surrounding area. ===December===*[[December 1]]: Greek public opinion was rocked by an unprecedented crime for Greek police, committed on the island of [[Salamina]]. The culprits were three brothers, aged 7, 8 and 14, and the victim was a 78-year-old woman, whom they strangled in order to rob.*[[December 4]]: [[Athina Roussel Onassis]] weds Brazilian questrian champion Alvaro Alfonso de Miranda in Sao Paolo, Brazil.*[[December 8]]: [[Basketball]] super-star [[Nikos Galis]] weds Eleni Panagiotou.
==Deaths==
===January===
*[[January 24]]: [[Nikos Mourkakos]], top administrative manager of Ethnikos, the first sportscaster of the [[YENED|Military Forces Radio]] (ΥΕΝΕΔ) and successful lyricist of folk songs.
===April===
*[[April 7]]: [[Grigoris Bithikotsis]], singer
*[[April 10]]: Former [[Archbishop Iakovos Koukouzis]] of North and South America.
===May===
*[[May 11]]: [[Michalis Genitsaris]], [[rebetiko]] singer
*[[May 22]]: [[Charilaos Florakis]], chairman of the [[Communist Party of Greece]]
*[[May 24]]: [[Michalis Kousis]], athlete, long distance runner
===August===
*[[August 13]]: [[Giorgos Zografos]], singer and actor
===October===
*[[October 31]]: [[Thanasis Giannousis]], politician, [[Thessaloniki]] mayor
*[[October 31]]: [[Dionysis Livanos]], politician, [[Minister for Tourism (Greece)|Minister of Tourism ]] and EU Parliamentarian
===November===
*[[November 8]]: [[Alekos Alexandrakis]], theatrical and film actor
*[[November 29]]: [[Kostas Tsimas]], politician
===December===
*[[December 21]]: [[Takis Binis]], [[rebetiko]] singer
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