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Dutch Eagle: Charisteas first Greek ever to score at two different final tournaments

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Charisteas first Greek ever to score at two different final tournaments

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July

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July

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July

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July

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December

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December

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December

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December

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December

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 *[[June 15]]: [[Stella Papadopoulou]] breaks the Greek [[hammer throw]] record with a 71.80m performance.
 *[[June 15]]: [[Piyi Devetzi]] jumps 14.92 meters – a world best for this year – to win the [[triple jump]] final at Athens’ Olympic Stadium where the Greek championship was held.
-*[[June 18]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] lose to Spain (1-2) in their 3rd and final game in the group stage of [[Euro 2008]]. [[Angelos Charisteas]] scores Greece's lone goal in the tournament. The defending [[Euro 2004]] champions, Greece, finish last in their group with an embarrassing three loses and zero points.
+*[[June 18]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] lose to Spain (1-2) in their 3rd and final game in the group stage of [[Euro 2008]]. [[Angelos Charisteas]] scores Greece's lone goal in the tournament, becoming the first Greek ever to score at two different final tournaments. The defending [[Euro 2004]] champions, Greece, finish last in their group with an embarrassing three loses and zero points.
 *[[June 19]]: National volleyball team coach [[Alekos Leonis]] quit his post suddenly, to take over at Panathinaikos. He has agreed to manage the Greens for the next two years, according to the federation.
 *[[June 22]]: Three policemen, one of whom was shot in the head, were rushed to the hospital after being fired at as they approached a cannabis plantation near the village of [[Malades]], 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of [[Heraklion]], [[Crete]]. The incident revived memories of an ambush on police in the mountain village of [[Zoniana]], in [[Rethymnon]] prefecture, last year.

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 ===July===
 *[[July 13]]: [[Manolis Tsachilidis]], president of [[Ionikos FC]]
-*[[July 29]]: [[Tonis Vavatsikos]], singer (won first prize at the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1974 with his song ''Pios na xerei sto Vlemma tou ti piso ti krivei o Theos gia mas'')
+*[[July 28]]: [[Tonis Vavatsikos]], singer (won first prize at the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1974 with his song ''Pios na xerei sto Vlemma tou ti piso ti krivei o Theos gia mas'')
 ===September===

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 ===July===
 *[[July 13]]: [[Manolis Tsachilidis]], president of [[Ionikos FC]]
-*[[July 29]]: Singer [[Toni Vavatsikos]] (won first prize at the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1974 with his song ''Pios na Xeri sto Vlemma tou ti Krivi o Theos gia Mas'')
+*[[July 29]]: [[Tonis Vavatsikos]], singer (won first prize at the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1974 with his song ''Pios na xerei sto Vlemma tou ti piso ti krivei o Theos gia mas'')
 ===September===
 *[[September 11]]: [[Vera Zavitsianou]], actress

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 *[[July 15]]: A strong earthquake (6.3 on the Richter scale) rocks [[Rhodes]], causing 1 fatality.
 *[[July 18]]: In a reply letter sent on Friday to FYROM Premier Nikola Gruevski, Greek Prime Minister [[Costas Karamanlis]] claimed there is no 'Macedonian' minority in Greece.
 *[[July 24]]: An explosion on a cargo ship in [[Perama]] costs the lives of 8 persons.

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 *[[July 11]]: 400-meter runner [[Dimitris Regas]] faces a possible two-year suspension after testing positive for the banned steroid substance Methyltrienolone at a national athletics meet in [[Athens]] on [[June 13]]. The 22-year-old Regas had not qualified for the Greek Olympic team for next month's Beijing Games.
 *[[July 13]]: Eintracht Frankfurt signs football striker [[Nikos Liberopoulos]] from [[AEK FC|AEK Athens]] on a free transfer with a two year contract.
 *[[July 15]]: A strong earthquake (6.3 on the Richter scale) rocks [[Rhodes]], causing 1 fatality.
 *[[July 18]]: In a reply letter sent on Friday to FYROM Premier Nikola Gruevski, Greek Prime Minister [[Costas Karamanlis]] claimed there is no 'Macedonian' minority in Greece.

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 *[[December 28]]: Labor union activists blockaded some shops in central [[Athens]] that were trying to open Sunday to make up revenue lost in three weeks of rioting that badly damaged the capital's retail district.
 *[[December 29]]: Riot police fire tear gas to repel about 300 [[Greek]] and Arab protesters hurling rocks at the Israeli Embassy in [[Athens]], during a rally against the Jewish state's assault on Gaza that killed at least 315 people and reduced dozens of buildings to rubble.
 ==Deaths==

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 ===December===
 *[[December 12]]: [[Tassos Papadopoulos]], President of Cyprus
+*[[December 30]] [[Achilleas Grammatikopoulos]], football player
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 *[[December 23]]: Shots were fired at a riot police van in the [[Goudi]] district of [[Athens]], missing the 23 officers on board but hitting the engine. One of the van's tyres also burst. Some 2,000 students marched in protests; roughly a dozen youths toppled a police vehicle, with the officers inside escaping unscathed.
 *[[December 26]]: A Greek government official's car was firebombed in front of his house, while assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at a bank and another group attacked a police car, authorities said.
 ==Deaths==