1966

Events

August

• August 16: Giorgos Koudas debuts with Olympiakos in a pre-season friendly. Koudas will return to PAOK in 1967 without having played a single competitive game for Olympiakos.

September

• September 2: Christos Papanikolaou wins the silver medal (5.05m) in pole vault at the European Championships in Budapest. East German Wolfgang Nordwig, his worthy opponent in many major competitions, wins the gold medal (5.10m)

• September 6: Dimitrios Tsafendas assassinates Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd of South Africa.

November

• November 30: The University of Patras is inaugurated.

December

• December 8: The ferry "Heraklion" sinks off the Aegean island of Falkonera killing 217 passengers.
• December 22: The "apostate" government of Stephanos Stephanopoulos falls as the National Radical Union party withdraw their support.
• December 29: Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Kotzamanis are found guilty of "grievous bodily injuries" in the Grigorios Lambrakis trial in Thessaloniki. All the other accused are unanimously acquitted.

Births

February

• February 1: Kyros Vassaras, international referee.
• February 1: Vasilis Dimitriadis, footballer.
• February 3: Kostas Patavoukas, basketball player.
• February 14: Valerios Leonidis, weightlifter

March

• March 13: Vana Barba, actress
• March 27: Zarko Paspalj, basketball player.

August

• August 15: Dimitris Papadopoulos, basketball player.

September

• September 1: Frank Klopas, footballer

October

• October 12: Yiannis Kalitzakis, footballer

November

• November 21: Thanasis Kolitsidakis, footballer

Deaths

October

• October 30: Giorgos Theotokas, writer

December

• December 25: Nikolaos Dandolas, known as Nick the Greek, dies at the age of 83. Considered one of the biggest gamblers in American history.
• December 29: Giorgos Moschos, basketball player