1976

Events

January

• January 4: PAOK thrash Olympiakos 4-0 at Karaiskaki Stadium. Goals scored by Koudas (2), Terzanidis and Guerino.
• January 20: PSAP is founded. Mimis Domazos serves as its first president.

March

• March 3: Tasos Mitropoulos makes his Alpha Ethniki debut with Ethnikos Piraeus. His career will end 22 years later.

May

• May 6: Vasilis Chatzipanagis plays wearing the Greek National Football Team shirt in a friendly game against Poland - Greece wins 1-0. This was his one and only game playing for Greece.
• May 12: The Democratic Party of Cyprus (DI.KO.) is founded in Cyprus by Spiros Kyprianou.
• May 23: After defeating Ethnikos Piraeus 4-0 away, PAOK win their first ever football championship.

June

• June 9: Vasilis Chatzipanagis scores for Iraklis directly from the corner kick defeating Olympiacos with 3-1. "Vasia" will score in the 1980s a total of 6 goals from the corner point.

July

• July 1: Apostolos Kathiniotis breaks the Greek record in the triple jump with 16.61m.
• July 4: The Democratic Rally Party of Cyprus is founded by Glafkos Clerides.
• July 10: Greek Cypriot Kostas Georgiou, better known as "Colonel Callan", is executed by a firing squad for war crimes during the Angolan civil war.
• July 27: Greek Cypriot, Stavros Sykopetritis, attempts to assassinate Bulent Ecevit in New York City. Ecevit was the Turkish PM who ordered the invasion of Cyprus two years earlier.
• July 31: Prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, through a letter handed by Epaminondas Petralias to IOC's chairman Lord Killanin, suggests that the Olympics should permanently take place in Greece. The IOC will not adopt his point of view

August

• August 6: Turkish ship "Sismik" violates Greek territorial waters.

September

• September 2: ET3 broadcasts for the first time through an antenna which is set on the Kiosk 8 of the International Thessaloniki Fair with Terence Quick being in the studios
• September 5: Cyprus holds its third parliamentary elections.
• September 15: AEK kick off their UEFA Cup campaign with a 2-0 victory over Dinamo Moscow. They will eventually reach the semi-finals of the Cup for the first time in their history.

November

• November 3: AEK defeat Derby County 3-2, in England, and advance to the 3rd round of the UEFA Cup.
• November 23: An Olympic Airlines VS-11 plane crashes near Kozani with 46 passengers and a crew of four on board. There are no survivors.

December

• December 14: The terrorist group 17 November assassinates Evangelos Mallios, a police officer who had been discharged after torturing prisoners during the Junta.

Births

January

• January 1: Efthimios Rentzias, basketball player
• January 3: Angelos Basinas, footballer.
• January 31: Traianos Dellas, footballer

June

• June 3: Nikos Hatzis, basketball player

September

• September 9: Vasilis Lakis, footballer

November

• November 7: Mark Philippoussis, Greek Australian tennis player
• November 7: Angelos Pavlakakis, athlete (100m)
• November 12: Demosthenes Tampakos, gymnast
• November 19: Stelios Venetidis, footballer
• November 29: Michalis Kakiouzis, basketball player

December

• December 21: Mirela Manjani, athlete (javelin thrower)
• December 23: Dimitris Mavrogenidis, footballer.
• December 27: Nikos Georgeas, footballer

Deaths

May

• May 1: Alekos Panagoulis, MP and would-be assassin of dictator George Papadopoulos.

July

• July 2: Christos Tsaganeas, stage and screen actor
• July 10: Colonel Callan, Greek-Cypriot mercenary

August

• August 22: Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist.

December

• December 7: Kostas Moussouris, actor, theatrical manager