October 27

Events

• 1848: Konstantinos Kanaris forms a government.
• 1899: German Princess Sophie marries Crown Prince Constantine of Greece in Athens, Greece.
• 1923: An attempted royalist coup by Ioannis Metaxas, Georgios Ziras, Leonardopoulos, Gargalidis and others is put down.
• 1960: Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis inaugurates Kaftantzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki.
• 1979: Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis meets Pope John Paul II in Rome.

Sports

• 1968: Goalkeeper Stelios Serafeidis is sent off in an Olympiakos - AEK derby. He is replaced by...forward Mimis Papaioannou who makes the save of the match in the 89th minute to preserve a 3-2 AEK victory.

Births

• 1934: Giorgos Konstantinou, actor
• 1956: Babis Tsertos, musician, performer of traditional, folk and rebetiko songs
• 1971: Theodoros Zagorakis, footballer, captain of the Euro 2004 Greek team

Deaths

• 1880: Thrasivoulos Zaimis, politician, Prime Minister
• 2009: Elli Pappa, leftist writer and reporter.