Difference between revisions of "1956"

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January 9: EOKA fighter, Kyriakos Matsis, is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.

February 7: Student Petros Yiallouros, a member of ANE, is slain during a protest in Cyprus.
February 29: Lina Tsaldari becomes the first woman Cabinet member. She is the widow of former PM Panagis Tsaldaris.

May 10: Michalis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the EOKA campaign.

July 9: A major earthquake (7.3 on the Richter scale) strikes Santorini resulting in 53 deaths and more than 100 injuries.

August 10: Phaedon Mattheou scores a personal record of 28 points against Syria (94-75) at Cairo for the pre-olympic tournament. Mattheou will score a total of 529 points in 44 matches with the national basketball team. In this match Vangelis Nikitopoulos will play for the second and last time in his career.

October 18: Giorgos Kimoulis, actor
October 27: Babis Tsertos, musician, performer of traditional, folk and rebetiko songs

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 *[[January 9]]: [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Kyriakos Matsis]], is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.
 ===February===
 *[[February 7]]: Student [[Petros Yiallouros]], a member of [[ANE]], is slain during a protest in [[Cyprus]].
+*[[February 29]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]] becomes the first woman Cabinet member. She is the widow of former PM [[Panagis Tsaldaris]].
 ===March===
 *[[March 4]]: 17-year old [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Giorgos Charalambous]], is killed in [[Limassol]].