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| − | '''Spiros Markezinis''' ([[April 22]], [[1909]] - [[January 4]], [[2000]]) was a [[Greece|Greek]] politician, longtime member of the Greek parliament, and briefly [[Prime Minister of Greece|Prime Minister]].
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| | + | *[[1821]]: The [[Battle of Alamana]] takes place during the Greek [[War of Independence]]. |
| | + | *[[1906]]: The [[1906 Summer Olympics|1906 Athens "Olympiad"]] commences. This competition was outside the Olympic Games' four-year cycle and was organised in order to revive the Games which were in danger of dying out after the 1904 St Louis circus-like flop. |
| | + | *[[1980]]: Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, visits [[Athens]]. |
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| − | Markezinis earned degrees in law and political science at the [[University of Athens]], and entered private law practice. In [[1936]], he became counsel to [[King George II]], a capacity in which he served until [[1946]]. During this time, the outbreak of [[World War II]] and Greece's occupation by Nazi Germany forced the King to flee the country, while Markezinis remained to fight as part of the resistance militias.
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| | + | *[[1909]]: [[Spyros Markezinis]], politician |
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| − | He ran for and received a seat in Parliament in the [[1946]] elections as a member of the [[United Nationalist Party]] from the [[Cyclades]]. Shortly after taking his seat, he split from the party and founded a new party, aptly named the [[New Party (Greece)|New Party]], the second of many parties under which he would serve. The New Party won 2.5% of the vote in the [[1950]] parliamentary elections, enough to hold Markezinis's single seat in Parliament.
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| | + | *[[1985]]: [[Giorgos Economidis]], radio host, songwriter. |
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| − | In [[1949]], Markezinis was made minister without portfolio, but was unofficially given control over the government's economic policy, coordinating the activities of the various economic ministries. Upon the election of longtime ally General [[Alexandros Papagos]] as Prime Minister in [[1952]], Markezinis's unofficial position as essentially minister of finance become even more powerful. The major event he orchestrated during his tenure was a 50% devaluation of the [[Drachma]].
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| − | Papagos left office in [[1955]], and in the same year, Markezinis again founded a new party, this time named the [[Progressive Party (Greece)|Progressive Party]]. However, it failed to win any seats in the [[1956]] elections, leaving Markezinis out of Parliament until the [[1958]] elections, in which the Progressive Party won a seat. In [[1961]], he won reelection under a joint list with the [[Center Union]] and in [[1964]] in a joint list with the [[National Radical Union]].
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| − | When [[George Papadopoulos]]'s [[junta|military junta]] took control of the country in [[1967]], the Progressive Party was the only party to support the junta, and indeed Markezinis was one of the few politicians of any political stripe willing to work with the junta at all. He was even briefly appointed Prime Minister of Greece in October [[1973]] as Papadopoulos resigned as Prime Minister to take the title of President. His time in this post was shortlived, as other members of the junta forced out both Markezinis and Papadopoulos on [[November 25]] following a bloodily-suppressed student uprising at [[Athens Polytechnic School]].
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| − | Following the collapse of the Papadopoulos government, Markezinis remained active in the political scene, playing a crucial role in the negotiations in early [[1974]] that led to the return of democratic government under [[Constantine Karamanlis]]'s [[national unity government]]. The Progressive Party remained an active political party, albeit a small one, whose main success consisted of electing a delegate to the European parliament in [[1981]].
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| − | In his later years, Markezinis wrote a number of well-regarded multi-volume treatises on [[20th century|20th-century]] [[history of Greece|Greek history]].
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