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==Events==
 
==Events==
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===January===
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*[[754]]: The [[Council of Hieria]] begins.
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*[[January 3]]: The [[National Radical Union]] is founded by [[Constantine Karamanlis]].
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*[[1891]]: [[Panellinios Gymnastic Club]] is founded by 27 distinguished members of [[Athens]]' high society, materialising an idea by Nikolaos Kotselopoulos.
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*[[January 9]]: [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Kyriakos Matsis]], is arrested, along with his brother [[Yiannakis Matsis|Yiannakis]], by the British.
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*[[1941]]: The Italian Airforce bombards [[Thessaloniki]] and [[Patra]].
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*[[January 24]]: The [[Democratic Union]] coalition is founded by [[Georgios Papandreou]] and other centrist and leftist politicians.
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*[[1947]]: The Treaty of Paris awards the [[Dodecanese]] Islands to Greece.
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*[[1947]]: The [[New Party]] is founded by economist [[Spyros Markezinis]].
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===February===
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*[[1981]]: Six Greek workers lose their lives in a ship that burned off [[Elefsina]].
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*[[February 7]]: Student [[Petros Yiallouros]], a member of [[ANE]], is slain during a protest in [[Cyprus]].
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*[[1991]]: [[Athens]] mayor [[Antonis Tritsis]] visits the bombed capital of Iraq, Baghdad
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*[[February 19]]: Owing to the complexity of the Greek electoral system (three different systems depending on region!), the [[National Radical Union]] emerges victorious from the Greek elections eventhough they were out-polled by the [[Democratic Union]].
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===Sports===
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*[[February 29]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]] becomes the first woman Cabinet member. She is the widow of former PM [[Panagis Tsaldaris]].
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*[[1999]]: Former [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] No12 basketball player [[Petros Panagiotarakos]] dies aged 56. On [[November 14]], [[1962]] he made his debut with the national basketball team in a game against Yugoslavia (70-81). He was capped 54 times (404 points).
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*[[1891]]: Twenty seven distinguished members of Athenian society found Panellinios, materializing an idea by Nikolaos Kotselopoulos
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===March===
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*[[2013]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.
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*[[March 4]]: 17-year old [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Giorgos Charalambous]], is killed in [[Limassol]].
 
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*[[March 5]]: "[[The fiend]]" (O Drakos) is released in cinemas throughout [[Greece]].
 
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*[[March 9]]: Archbishop [[Makarios III]] is seized at [[Nicosia International Airport|Nicosia Airport]] by the British colonial authorities in [[Cyprus]] and exiled to the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean.
 
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*[[March 29]]: [[Dorotheus]] is elected [[Archbishop of Athens]] and all Greece.
 
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===April===
 
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*[[April 18]]: [[Maria Desylla-Kapodistria]] becomes the first woman elected mayor of a Greek city ([[Kerkyra city|Kerkyra/Corfu]]).
 
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*[[April 22]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] lose to Italy's seconds 7-1 in a Mediterranean Cup game played in Naples.
 
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*[[April 23]]: [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Iakovos Patatsos]], is arrested in [[Lefkosia]] for the murder of PC Nihat Basif.
 
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*[[April 27]]: A RAF Douglas Dakota is destroyed on the ground by a bomb thought to have been placed by [[EOKA]] fighters.
 
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===May===
 
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*[[May 9]]: A huge protest in [[Athens]], over the executions of [[Michalis Karaolis]] and [[Andreas Dimitriou]], turns bloody as four protesters are killed and 164 are injured.
 
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*[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]] and [[Andreas Dimitriou]] become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the [[EOKA]] campaign.
 
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*[[May 16]]: [[EOKA]] members [[Michalis Koutsoftas]] and [[Andreas Panagidis]] kill British Cpl. Patrick J. Hale in retaliation for the [[Michalis Karaolis|Karaolis]]-[[Andreas Dimitriou|Dimitriou]] executions 6 days earlier.
 
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*[[May 27]]: [[Kostas Sfikas]] breaks the Greek record for the [[triple jump]] with 15.18m. The old record by [[Ioannis Palamiotis]] had stood for 17 years.
 
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*[[May 28]]: Greek Foreign Minister, [[Spyros Theotokis]], is forced to resign over the [[Cyprus]] matter.
 
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===June===
 
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*[[June 10]]: The [[Lycabettus]] funicular came into operation
 
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===July===
 
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*[[July 9]]:  A major earthquake (7.3 on the Richter scale) strikes [[Santorini]] resulting in 53 deaths and more than 100 injuries.
 
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===August===
 
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*[[August 9]]: [[Iakovos Patatsos]], [[Charilaos Michail]] and [[Andreas Zakos]] are hanged by the British in the [[Central Jail of Lefkosia]]
 
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*[[August 10]]: [[Phaedon Mattheou]] scores a personal record of 28 points against Syria (94-75) at Cairo for the pre-olympic tournament. Mattheou will score a total of 529 points in 44 matches with the [[National Basketball Team|national basketball team]]. In this match Vangelis Nikitopoulos will play for the second and last time in his career.
 
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*[[August 31]]: [[EOKA]] attack the General Hospital of [[Nicosia]] and free [[Polykarpos Georkadjis]] who was being held by the British.
 
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===September===
 
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*[[September 13]]: [[Kyriakos Matsis]] and six other [[EOKA]] fighters escape from Kokkinotrimithia Prison.
 
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*[[September 21]]: Three [[EOKA]] members [[Andreas Panagidis]], [[Michalis Koutsoftas]] and [[Stelios Mavrommatis]] are hanged by the British in [[Cyprus]].
 
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===November===
 
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*[[November 26]]: [[Georgios Roubanis]] wins the bronze medal in the [[pole vault]] at the Olympic Games of Melbourne.
 
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===December===
 
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*[[December 18]]: [[Evagoras Pallikaridis]] is arrested in [[Cyprus]] by the British.
 
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==
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===February===
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*[[1896]]: [[Sir John Harding]], military governor of [[Cyprus]].
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*[[February 12]]: [[Velimir Zajec]], footballer.
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*[[1926]]: [[Kostas Mountakis]], [[Crete|Cretan]] singer.
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*[[February 19]]: [[Nikos Liakos]], footballer
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*[[1936]]: [[Nadia Konstantopoulou]], [[elafro]] singer.
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*[[1938]]: [[Giorgos Petridis]], footballer.
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===March===
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*[[1939]]: [[Jenny Vanou]], singer.
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*[[March 9]]: [[Manthos Katsoulis]], [[basketball]] player
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*[[1961]]: [[George Stephanopoulos]], [[Greek-American]] political adviser
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===May===
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*[[1967]]: [[Giorgos Kasnaferis]], international referee.
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*[[May 15]]: [[Andreas Loverdos]], politician.
 
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===September===
 
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*[[September 14]]: [[Costas Karamanlis]], Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic
 
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*[[September 17]]: [[Kostas Orfanos]], footballer
 
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===October===
 
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*[[October 18]]: [[Giorgos Kimoulis]], actor
 
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*[[October 24]]: [[David Stergakos]], [[basketball]] player.
 
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*[[October 27]]: [[Babis Tsertos]], musician, performer of traditional, folk and [[rebetiko]] songs
 
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===November===
 
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*[[November 5]]: [[Laurentis Machairitsas]], musician, singer
 
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*[[November 13]]: [[Anna Verouli]], athlete.
 
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===Unknown===
 
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*[[Yiannis Kouros]], long-distance runner
 
  
 
==Deaths==
 
==Deaths==
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===February===
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*[[1913]]: [[Kostas Tsiklitiras]], Olympic Gold Medallist, during the [[First Balkan War]], from meningitis.
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*[[February 7]]: [[Petros Yiallouros]], during the [[EOKA]] struggle.  
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*[[1956]]: [[Emmanouil Tsouderos]], banker, Prime Minister
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*[[February 10]]: [[Emmanouil Tsouderos]], banker, Prime Minister
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*[[1975]]: [[Nikos Kavvadias]], poet
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*[[February 22]]: [[Alexandros Svolos]], politician, head of the "Government of the Mountains"
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*[[1999]]: [[Petros Panagiotarakos]], aged 56, basketball player for [[Panathinaikos BC]].
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*[[2025]]: [[Takis Oikonomopoulos]], [[football]]er
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===March===
 
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*[[March 4]]: [[Giorgos Charalambous]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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===May===
 
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*[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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*[[May 10]]: [[Andreas Dimitriou]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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===August===
 
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*[[August 9]]: [[Iakovos Patatsos]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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*[[August 9]]: [[Charilaos Michail]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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*[[August 9]]: [[Andreas Zakos]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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===September===
 
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*[[September 21]]: [[Andreas Panagidis]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
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*[[September 21]]: [[Michalis Koutsoftas]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
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*[[September 21]]: [[Stelios Mavrommatis]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
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===November===
 
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*[[November 14]]: [[Queen Elisabeth]] of Greece (wife of [[King George II]])
 
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*[[November 23]]: [[Grigoris Georgakopoulos]], athlete ([[800m]], [[1500m]])
 
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===December===
 
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*[[December 31]]: [[Michalis Georgalas]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
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===Unknown===
 
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*[[Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos]], athlete
 
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Latest revision as of 20:56, February 10, 2025

Events

Sports

  • 1999: Former Panathinaikos No12 basketball player Petros Panagiotarakos dies aged 56. On November 14, 1962 he made his debut with the national basketball team in a game against Yugoslavia (70-81). He was capped 54 times (404 points).
  • 1891: Twenty seven distinguished members of Athenian society found Panellinios, materializing an idea by Nikolaos Kotselopoulos
  • 2013: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 81-78 to lift the Greek basketball cup.

Births

Deaths

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