2010 - Revision history

Dutch Eagle: /* February */Correct name Europa League.

2020-07-06T17:14:49Z

February: Correct name Europa League.

Irlandos: /* August */

2018-03-19T20:35:01Z

August

Dutch Eagle: Death of Michas added

2018-01-20T15:35:17Z

Death of Michas added

Dutch Eagle: Added that Salpingidis became the first Greek ever to score at a Euro and a WC

2017-11-04T14:49:25Z

Added that Salpingidis became the first Greek ever to score at a Euro and a WC

Irlandos: /* April */

2012-10-12T09:14:04Z

April

Irlandos: /* June */

2012-03-31T07:11:24Z

June

Irlandos: /* March */

2011-07-18T21:50:55Z

March

Lazarus at 14:48, June 14, 2011

2011-06-14T14:48:43Z

Lazarus: /* April */

2011-04-24T06:38:38Z

April

Irlandos: /* August */

2010-12-31T10:08:23Z

August

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 *[[February 24]]: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as private and public sector workers protest the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.
 *[[February 24]]: [[Greek-Australian]] [[Lydia Lassila]] (née Ierodiaconou) wins gold for Australia in freestyle skiing at the Vancouver winter Olympics.
-*[[February 25]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] advance in the Europa Cup after a 3-2 triumph over AS Roma in Stadio Olimpico. The first game in [[Athens]] had also ended in a 3-2 victory.
+*[[February 25]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] advance in the Europa League after a 3-2 triumph over AS Roma in Stadio Olimpico. The first game in [[Athens]] had also ended in a 3-2 victory.
 ===March===

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 *[[July 23]]: [[Stelios Kantonias]], president of [[AE Larisa FC]] in their championship season.
 ===August===
 *[[August 16]]: [[Dimitrios Ioannides]], military officer.
 *[[August 22]]: [[Stjepan Bobek]], Yugoslav soccer legend (coached [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in the 1960s - early 1970s)

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 *[[August 16]]: [[Dimitrios Ioannides]], military officer.
 *[[August 22]]: [[Stjepan Bobek]], Yugoslav soccer legend (coached [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] and [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] in the 1960s - early 1970s)
 *[[August 28]]: [[Metropolitan]] [[Avgoustinos of Florina]]
 ===September===
 *[[September 7]]: [[Vasilis Christodoulou]], cartoonist, satyrist

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 *[[June 7]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] index plunges by 5.45% to 1,403.92 - its lowest level since February 1998.
 *[[June 12]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] open their World Cup 2010 campaign with a disappointing 2-0 defeat at the hands of S. Korea.
-*[[June 17]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] score their first goals and record their first win in World Cup Soccer at the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa, beating Nigeria with a score of 2-1. The goals for [[National Football Team|Greece]] were scored by [[Dimitris Salpingidis]] 44' and [[Vassilis Torosidis]] 71'.
+*[[June 17]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] score their first goals and record their first win in World Cup Soccer at the 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa, beating Nigeria with a score of 2-1. The goals for [[National Football Team|Greece]] were scored by [[Dimitris Salpingidis]] (becoming the first Greek ever to score at the final tournament of a Euro and a World Cup) 44' and [[Vassilis Torosidis]] 71'.
 *[[June 22]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] end their World Cup 2010 campaign with a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Argentina.
 *[[June 24]]: A nine-year era comes to a close as [[Otto Rehhagel]] announces his retirement from the position of head coach of the Greek [[National Football Team]].

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 ===April===
 *[[April 1]]: [[Tzannis Tzannetakis]], politician, former Prime Minister of Greece.
 *[[April 17]]: [[Anna Kalouta]], stage and screen actress.
 ===June===
 *[[June 8]]: [[Andreas Voutsinas]], actor, drama coach and stage director

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 *[[June 24]]: A bomb blast at the offices of [[Minister for Public Order (Greece)|Greece's public order ministry]] in [[Athens]] kills Giorgos Vassilakis, a 50-year-old father of two and a close aide to the minister responsible for counter-terrorism, [[Michalis Chryssohoidis]].
 *[[June 24]]: [[Iraklis FC]] win the right to play in the upcoming [[Football A Division|Greek Super League]] season after winning an appeal against the [[June 1]] [[EPO]] ruling that their entry papers were inadequate.
 *[[June 29]]: A general strike by the major unions of Greece paralyse the country as workers once more protest the [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] government's austerity measures.

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 *[[May 3]]: The European Central Bank suspends benchmark criteria for lending to Greek banks.
 *[[May 5]]: Greece is paralysed by a general strike as workers protest the austerity measures proposed by PM [[Giorgos Papandreou|Papandreou]] to combat the national debt. During the protests, three people die in a firebomb attack on an [[Athens]] bank.
 *[[May 7]]: Eurozone leaders meet at a summit to stem the Greek crisis and stop the crisis from spreading.
 *[[May 7]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] defeat Partizan Belgrade 83-80 to advance to the final of the Euroleague.
 *[[May 9]]: [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] fail to win the Euroleague as they lose 86-68, in the final, to Barcelona.
 *[[May 10]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] index rises by 9.13% to 1,779.30.
 *[[May 14]]: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, arrives in [[Athens]], on an official state visit, accompanied by ten cabinet ministers.
 *[[May 17]]: Deputy Minister for Tourism, [[Angela Gerekou]], resigns over a press revelation that her husband, singer [[Tolis Voskopoulos]], owes more than €5 million in back taxes and fines.
 *[[May 25]]: Newly-elected Turkish-Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, meets for the first time with President [[Dimitris Christofias]] as the Cyprus talks continue where they left off before the Turkish-Cypriot elections.
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 ===July===
 *[[July 6]]: An era comes to an end as [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] president, [[Socrates Kokkalis]] sells his interests in the club to shipowner [[Vangelis Marinakis]].
 *[[July 8]]: Yet another general strike takes place throughout [[Greece]].
 *[[July 15]]: [[Olympiakos FC]] defeat KS Besa of Albania 5-0 in the 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League, recording their greatest ever away win in Europe.
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 *[[August 1]]: Temperatures in [[Cyprus]] hit an all-time August record of 46C in the shade.
 *[[August 5]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] lose 1-0 to underdogs Maccabi Tel-Aviv and are eliminated  from European competition.
 *[[August 6]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sack coach [[Ewald Lienen]].
 *[[August 7]]: [[AEK FC|AEK]] coach, [[Dusan Bajevic]], is attacked and beaten by his team's supporters after a friendly match against [[Kallithea FC]].
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 *[[September 13]]: Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani beats Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich and Madonna to buy [[Skorpios]] for a reported $190 Million. It was sold to Armani by heiress, [[Athina Onassis Roussel]].
 ===October===
 *[[October 6]]: Russian PM Dmitriy Medvedev arrives in [[Cyprus]] on an official state visit.
 *[[October 8]]: [[Giorgos Karagounis]] earns his 100th cap as [[National Football Team|Greece]] defeat Latvia 1-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier.

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 *[[April 11]]: The eurozone maps out a plan to lend Greece 30 billion euros in 2010, at a rate of five percent.
 *[[April 22]]: The EU sharply increases Athens' 2009 public deficit estimate to 13.6 percent. Moody's cuts Greece's sovereign debt rating a notch from A2 to A3, sparking market panic.
-*[[April 23]]: Greece asks for up to 45 billion euros of urgent aid at low rates, promising new austerity measures.
+*[[April 23]]: Greece asks its European Union peers and the International Monetary Fund for 10 billion euros ($159 billion) of urgent aid (a bailout loan) at low rates, promising new austerity measures.
 *[[April 24]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Aris FC|Aris]] [[Thessaloniki]] 1-0 in the final of the [[Greek Football Cup]] to complete their domestic double.
 *[[April 27]]: Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign debt to junk status and cuts Portugal and Spain's credit ratings. European stock exchanges tumble.

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 *[[August 7]]: [[AEK FC|AEK]] coach, [[Dusan Bajevic]], is attacked and beaten by his team's supporters after a friendly match against [[Kallithea FC]].
 *[[August 11]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] play their first match under [[Fernando Santos]]: a 1-0 away win against Serbia.
 *[[August 15]]: His All-holiness [[Patriarch Bartholomew I]] officiates at a liturgy at the monastery of Panagia Soumela. The is the first liturgy at the historic monastery since [[1923]].
 *[[August 16]]: PM Benjamin Netanyahu visits Greece - the first ever official state visit by an Israeli PM to Greece.
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 *[[August 26]]: Two Hellenic Airforce F-16 jets collide over [[Crete]] during a military exercise. One pilot is killed, two are seriously injured.
 *[[August 26]]: The three clubs representing [[Greece]] - [[AEK FC|AEK]], [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] and [[Aris FC|Aris]] - all draw in their Europa League playoff games and advance to the group stage. The two clubs representing [[Cyprus]] - [[APOEL FC|APOEL]] and [[Omonia FC|Omonia]] - also draw but are eliminated.
 ===September===
 *[[September 1]]: A new law comes into force in Greece banning smoking in enclosed public spaces.