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*[[April 20]]: [[Yiannis Gaitatzis]], footballer | *[[April 20]]: [[Yiannis Gaitatzis]], footballer | ||
Revision as of 11:10, June 1, 2006
Liberated Athenians greet British soldiers in Athens
Events
January
- January 11: Allied airplanes bombard the harbour of Piraeus.
April
- April 5: 270 Greeks are executed in the village of Kleisoura (Kastoria), by the German occupation forces, in retaliation for the killing of two German soldiers in the area.
June
- June 10: German occupation troops execute 218 Greeks in Distomo, Boeotia prefecture.
October
- October 12: The WWII German occupying forces move out of Athens.
- October 28: German soldiers, while on retreat, sabotaged and destroyed the bridge of Papadia, and the tunnel and bridge of Brallos.
December
- December 24: Sir Winston Churchill arrives in Athens in an attempt to resolve the political crisis between EAM and the re-instated Greek government of Georgios Papandreou.
- December 27: PM Georgios Papandreou submits his resignation in the midst of the post-World War II December crisis ("Δεκεμβριανά"). Winston Churchill leaves Athens for London.
Births
March
- March 17: Juan Ramon Veron, footballer
April
- April 20: Yiannis Gaitatzis, footballer
December
- December 2: Dionysis Savvopoulos, music composer, lyricist and singer