September 20

Events

• 325 BC: Alexander's fleet, consisting of 150 ships under the command of Admiral Nearchus from Crete, set sail from the port of Matala, in the mouth of the Indus river, to return to Persia. It reached Harmozeia (present day Hormuz Straits) at the end of December, after encountering heavy seas and experiencing many adversities.
• 1878: Gregorios Maraslis is elected mayor of Odessa, Russia.
• 1897: A Peace treaty is signed ending the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• 1923: Patriarch Meletius IV resigns the Ecumenical throne amid growing political pressure.
• 1942: Resistance members belonging to PEAN blow up the offices of the "National Socialist Patriotic Organisation" killing 43 Germans and 23 Greek collaborators.
• 1951: NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as new members.
• 1961: Konstantinos Dovas forms a caretaker government which will conduct one of the most disputed elections in the history of Greece.

Sports

• 1934: Jim Londos defeats his longtime nemesis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, in a famous showdown before over 35,000 fans at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
• 1958: Evangelos Depastas breaks the Greek record for the 1500m with a time of 3:44.7.
• 1959: Dimos Maglaras breaks the Greek record for the long jump with 7.51m. The old record (7.37m by Grigoris Lambrakis) had stood since 1938.
• 1981: Dimitris Michas breaks the Greek record in the triple jump with 17.04m. His record will stand for 17 years.
• 2007: A particularly good night for Greece in soccer! At their respective UEFA Cup campaigns, all five sides won: Larissa - Blackburn (UK) 2-0; Artmedia (Slovakia) - Panathinaikos 1-2; AEK - Salzburg (Austria) 3-0; Sochaux (France) - Panionios 0-2; Aris - Zaragoza (Spain) 1-0.
• 2009: Greece defeat Slovenia 57-56 and win third place in Eurobasket 2009.

Births

• 1924: Jeno Csaknady, football coach (AEK, PAOK)
• 1981: Dimitris Papadopoulos, footballer

Deaths

• 1971: Giorgos Seferis, poet
• 1992: Alexandros Kotzias, writer