July 23

Events

• 1833: The Church of Greece declares itself independent of Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1933: A strong earthquake (6.6 on the Richter scale) strikes Kos, killing 200 persons.
• 1949: A powerful earthquake (6.7 on the Richter scale) strikes the island of Chios.
• 1974: The military government in Greece collapses and former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.
• 1974: Nikos Sampson, junta-appointed President of Cyprus resigns and is replaced by Parliament President Glafkos Clerides
• 2002: 37-year old teacher, Konstantinos Telios, surrenders to the police in Thessaloniki as a member of the Revolutionary Organisation 17 November.

Sports

• 1949: The Cyprus National Football Team play their first international: a 3-0 loss to Israel in Tel-Aviv.
• 1995: Christos Pallakis breaks the Greek record in the pole vault with 5.56m.
• 2017: Greece defeat Israel 65-56 to lift the European Under-20 basketball championship

Births

• 1939: Nicholas Gage, Greek-American writer and journalist.
• 1957: Nikos Galis, basketball player.

Deaths

• 1993: Yiannis Argyris, actor
• 1996: Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress
• 2012: Apostolos Papoutsakis, football executive
• 2017: Zoe Fytousi, actress, singer