February 9

Events

474: Zeno I ascends to the Byzantine throne.
1919: Workers in Thessaloniki protest shortages in food.
1934: The Balkan Entente is established by Greece, Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia.
1948: A major earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) strikes the island of Karpathos.
1950: Martial law, imposed as a result of the Greek Civil War, is lifted throughout Greece.
1954: The statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis on his horse, is placed in front of old Parliament building.
1976: The European Common Market accepts the application of Greece for full membership.
1995: Four members of the Northern Epirus "Omonia Party" are released from prison by the Albanian authorities.
2007: The body of Yiannis Vartholomeos, head of the Social Insurance Institute (IKA), was found in the stairwell of an apartment block in the central Zografou area.
2023: A Greek EMAK mission flies out to Turkey, in the aftermath of a 7.8 earthquake, to assist in rescue operations.

1998: Young PAOK midfielder Panagiotis Katsouris is killed in a car accident.
2013: Nikoletta Kyriakopoulou breaks the Greek women's indoor record in the pole vault, at Donetsk, Ukraine, with 4.60m.
2014: Panathinaikos defeat Aris 90-53 to lift the Greek Basketball Cup for their 15th time.