March 8

Events

• 1907: Marinos Antypas, an advocate of agrarian reform, is assassinated in Thessaly.
• 1941: Kathimerini publisher, Georgios Vlachos, prints his famous "open letter to Hitler".
• 1950: Greece becomes a member of CISM.
• 1970: An attempt against the life of Archbishop Makarios III fails as his seriously wounded helicopter pilot manages to land the craft despite his injuries.
• 1995: Kostis Stephanopoulos is elected President of Greece on the third ballot.
• 2008: A train derailed near Larisa causing injuries to 23 persons.
• 2010: The remains of Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos, which were stolen on December 11, 2009, are found by the police after an anonymous tip.

Sports

• 1972: AEK are eliminated from the Greek Football Cup by Lamia FC 1-0
• 2014: Kostas Filippidis wins the gold medal in the pole vault, with 5.80m, at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland.

Births

• 1849: Georgios Vizyinos, writer
• 1863: Georgios Christakis-Zografos, head of the provisional government of Northern Epirus.
• 1907: Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician
• 1946: Yiannis Parios, singer
• 1948: Popi Asteriadi, singer
• 1953: Angelos Anastasiadis, football player and coach
• 1954: Juan Ramon Rocha, footballer
• 1963: Juan Gilberto Funes, played for Olympiakos in the late 1980s.
• 1975: Peggy Zina, singer

Deaths

• 1857: Constantine Oikonomos of the Oikonomoi, clergyman and theologian
• 1907: Marinos Antypas, advocate of agrarian reform.
• 2022: Nikos Sideris, footballer