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*[[August 11]]: Flooding occurs in the northeastern part of [[Evros prefecture]], between [[Orestiada]] and [[Didymoteicho]].
 
*[[August 11]]: Flooding occurs in the northeastern part of [[Evros prefecture]], between [[Orestiada]] and [[Didymoteicho]].
 
 
*[[August 14]]: [[Helios Airways Flight 522]] air disaster
 
*[[August 14]]: [[Helios Airways Flight 522]] air disaster
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*[[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.
 
*[[August 21]]: Greece's women's [[Water Polo]] team won the World League final by defeating Russia 13-10 at Kirishi, Russia.
  

Revision as of 15:39, February 12, 2008

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

March

May

June

July

  • July 26: 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

September

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 Military Forces Radio (ΥΕΝΕΔ) and successful lyricist of folk songs.

April

May

August

September

October

November

December