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, G. Ziras 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.

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.

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