Difference between revisions of "1986"

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April 8: Industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos, chairman of Halivourgiki Steel Company and friend of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is killed while leaving his home in Kolonaki. The Revolutionary Organization 17 November assume responsibility.

May 23: The Greek Central Intelligence Agency (KYP) is renamed National Intelligence Agency (EYP).

July 5: Nikos Galis scores a record 35 points as Greece beat Panama 110-81 for the World Basketball Championship in Zaragoza

September 7: Larisa defeat Ethnikos Piraeus 9-0, however the Hellenic Football Federation will not recognise the result of the match as Ethnikos fielded amateurs due to a footballers' strike.

September 13: A powerful earthquake (6.2 on the Richter scale) strikes Kalamata causing extensive damage and five fatalities.

October 5: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November launches a series of bomb attacks on offices of the Greek Taxation bureau.
October 12: New Democracy triumphs in the municipal elections as Miltiades Evert is elected Mayor of Athens, Andreas Andrianopoulos is elected Mayor of Piraeus and Sotiris Kouvelas is elected Mayor of Thessaloniki.
October 26: 29-year old teacher, Charalambos Blionas, is killed in Larisa when he is hit with a flare during the football game between AE Larisa and PAOK.

February 26: Amalia Fleming nee Koutsouri, wife of Dr. Alexander Fleming and PASOK MP.

September 11: Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, intellectual, politician, Prime Minister.

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 ===February===
 *[[February 26]]: [[Amalia Fleming]] nee Koutsouri, wife of Dr. Alexander Fleming and [[PASOK]] MP.
+===March===
+*[[March 23]]: [[Achilleas Apergis]], sculptor.
 ===September===