1963

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Gregoris Lambrakis' funeral. May 28, 1963.

Events

January

February

March

  • March 1: A fixed fine is established for Members of the Greek Parliament who miss a session without a valid excuse.

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October

  • October 20: Olympiakos defeat Zaglebie Sosnowiec of Poland 2-0 in Vienna for the Cupwinners' Cup and become the first club from Greece to advance to the next round of a European Cup.

November

December

  • December 3 : Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and high school students.
  • December 7: Aristides Pangratidis is arrested for attemped rape of a minor. He will later be convicted as the serial killer "the ogre of Seikh Sou" and sentenced to death.
  • December 9: Constantine Karamanlis resigns from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.
  • December 9: Athenian high society is shaken up by the murder of heiress Ioulia Syreggela by her Iranian lover Reza Abbaz Mirtolooi.
  • December 10: The Nobel for Literature is awarded for the first time to a Greek; to George Seferis. In his award speech the poet is quoted as saying: "I belong to a small country. Our place is small but it has a huge tradition... The Greek language has never stopped being spoken..."
  • December 21: The Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964 begins with a firefight in Nicosia that leaves one Greek Cypriot policeman and two Turkish Cypriot civilians dead.
  • December 27: Student rallies take place in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of a union between Greece and Cyprus.
  • December 30: Banker Ioannis Paraskevopoulos forms a caretaker government as elections are proclaimed for February 1964.
  • December 30: The Green Line, separating the Greek and Turkish sectors of Lefkosia, is agreed upon by the two communities.

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