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| + | *[[March 5]]: [[Lorenzo Serra Ferrer]], football coach | ||
===June=== | ===June=== | ||
*[[June 15]]: [[Yiannis Pathiakakis]], football player | *[[June 15]]: [[Yiannis Pathiakakis]], football player | ||
Revision as of 15:24, March 30, 2007
Events
April
- April 9: Dr. Alexander Fleming and his Greek assistant Amalia Katsouri announce their plans to wed.
May
- May 7: The Central Intelligence Agency of Greece (KYP) is established.
July
- July 24: The trial of Nikos Ploumpidis - alleged to be head of illegal KKE operations in Greece - commences.
August
- August 3: Nikos Ploumbidis is sentenced to death for espionage.
October
- October 21: Alexandra Ladikou is voted Miss World first runner-up.
November
- November 24: Spiros Markezinis, unofficially the Finance MInister of the Alexandros Papagos government, announces that he will proceed with "cutting off three zeroes from the currency bills." The value of the drachma against the dollar becomes 1 to 30 and not 1 to 30,000 as it had been.
December
- December 29: Greece replaces the oka with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight.
Births
March
- March 5: Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, football coach
June
- June 15: Yiannis Pathiakakis, football player