Difference between revisions of "May 11"

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330: Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman Empire.
1879: Dimitrios Soutsos is elected Mayor of Athens.
1933: Gen. Ioannis Metaxas and several members of the Popular Party government suggest that Eleftherios Venizelos be prosecuted as responsible for the unsuccessful coup d'etat of March 6.
1934: Labour demonstrations in Kalamata turn bloody as police kill four demostrators.
1958: Constantine Karamanlis is reelected PM with ERE winning 41.16% of the vote. Surprisingly, the United Democratic Left comes in second with 24.42%.
1964: Two Greek officers and a Greek Cypriot policeman are machine-gunned to death in Famagusta. Another Greek officer is injured. The four men were in a vehicle that was stopped by Turkish-Cypriot irregulars.
1984: The Security Council of the UN condemns the exhange of ambassadors between Turkey and the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"

1952: Rigas Efsthathiadis breaks the Greeks record in the pole vault with 4.17m.
1993: Olympiakos win the first professional Basketball Championship (organized by ESAK) when Panathinaikos refuse to play the last playoff game at Peace and Friendship Stadium.
2019: PAOK win the Greek Cup for the third time in a row after defeating AEK for the third time in a row (this time with 1-0), and the so called “Double” for the first time after clinching the championship three weeks earlier.

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 *[[1952]]: [[Rigas Efsthathiadis]] breaks the Greeks record in the [[pole vault]] with 4.17m.
 *[[1993]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] win the first professional Basketball Championship (organized by ESAK) when [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] refuse to play the last playoff game at [[Peace and Friendship Stadium]].
+*[[2019]]: [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] win the [[Greek Football Cup|Greek Cup]] for the third time in a row after defeating [[AEK FC|AEK]] for the third time in a row (this time with 1-0), and the so called “Double” for the first time after clinching the championship three weeks earlier.
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