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==Events==
 
==Events==
===January===
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*[[1878]]: 2,000 [[Crete|Cretan]] rebels attack fort Icedin at [[Chania]].  
*[[January 3]]: The [[National Radical Union]] is founded by [[Constantine Karamanlis]].
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*[[1900]]: The Maritime Hospital of [[Piraeus]] is founded.
*[[January 9]]: [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Kyriakos Matsis]], is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.
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*[[1911]]: A number of professors from the [[University of Athens]] petition Parliament to declare the [[Katharevousa]] version of the [[Greek language]] as the one and only official language of the Greek state.
*[[January 24]]: The [[Democratic Union]] coalition is founded by [[Georgios Papandreou]] and other centrist and leftist politicians.
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*[[1943]]: Greek guerrilas attack and defeat an Italian battalion at [[Oxynia]], [[Thessaly]].
 
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*[[1944]]: The Norwegian steamship "Oria" sinks off the coast of [[Patroklos island]], causing the death of 4,095 Italian prisoners of war, 21 Greeks and 15 Germans. This is the worst maritime disaster in the Mediterranean Sea.
===February===
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*[[1945]]: The [[Varkiza Agreement]] is signed - it was an agreement that terminated institutionally the political and military fighting of December [[1944]] ("[[December events]]") and aimed at reconciliating the opposite blocs of the country.
*[[February 7]]: Student [[Petros Yiallouros]], a member of [[ANE]], is slain during a protest in [[Cyprus]].
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*[[1946]]: The second general council of the [[Communist Party of Greece]] takes place which decides to boycott the upcoming elections in favour of armed struggle.
*[[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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*[[1949]]: During the [[Greek Civil War]], communist forces are repelled at [[Florina]].
*[[February 29]]: [[Lina Tsaldari]] becomes the first woman Cabinet member. She is the widow of former PM [[Panagis Tsaldaris]].
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*[[1962]]: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin visits [[Athens]] and utters his famous quote: "In this country, half the people sell lottery tickets and the other half buy them!"
 
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*[[1979]]: Weapons are stolen from an army base in [[Rethymno]], [[Crete]].
===March===
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*[[1981]]: Former [[Queen Frederika]] is buried in [[Tatoi]], [[Greece]].
*[[March 4]]: 17-year old [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Giorgos Charalambous]], is killed in [[Limassol]].
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*[[2023]]: [[Nikos Christodoulides]] is elected [[President of Cyprus]] defeating [[Andreas Mavroyiannis]]. [[Nikos Christodoulides|Christodoulides]] received 51.97% of the vote to 48.03% of his opponent.
*[[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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*[[2025]]: Former [[Hellenic Parliament]] Speaker, [[Konstantinos Tasoulas]], is elected [[President of Greece]].
*[[March 29]]: [[Dorotheus]] is elected [[Archbishop of Athens]] and all Greece.
 
 
 
===April===
 
*[[April 18]]: [[Maria Desylla-Kapodistria]] becomes the first woman elected mayor of a Greek city ([[Kerkyra city|Kerkyra/Corfu]]).
 
*[[April 22]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] lose to Italy's seconds 7-1 in a Mediterranean Cup game played in Naples.
 
*[[April 23]]: [[EOKA]] fighter, [[Iakovos Patatsos]], is arrested in [[Lefkosia]] for the murder of PC Nihat Basif.
 
*[[April 27]]: A RAF Douglas Dakota is destroyed on the ground by a bomb thought to have been placed by [[EOKA]] fighters.
 
 
 
===May===
 
*[[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.
 
*[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]] and [[Andreas Dimitriou]] become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the [[EOKA]] campaign.
 
*[[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.
 
*[[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.
 
*[[May 28]]: Greek Foreign Minister, [[Spyros Theotokis]], is forced to resign over the [[Cyprus]] matter.
 
 
 
===June===
 
*[[June 10]]:  The [[Lycabettus]] funicular came into operation
 
===July===
 
*[[July 9]]:  A major earthquake (7.3 on the Richter scale) strikes [[Santorini]] resulting in 53 deaths and more than 100 injuries.
 
 
 
===August===
 
*[[August 9]]: [[Iakovos Patatsos]], [[Charilaos Michail]] and [[Andreas Zakos]] are hanged by the British in the [[Central Jail of Lefkosia]]
 
*[[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.
 
 
 
===September===
 
*[[September 13]]: [[Kyriakos Matsis]] and six other [[EOKA]] fighters escape from Kokkinotrimithia Prison.
 
*[[September 21]]: Three [[EOKA]] members [[Andreas Panagidis]], [[Michalis Koutsoftas]] and [[Stelios Mavrommatis]] are hanged by the British in [[Cyprus]].
 
===November===
 
*[[November 26]]: [[Georgios Roubanis]] wins the bronze medal in the [[pole vault]] at the Olympic Games of Melbourne.
 
 
 
===December===
 
*[[December 18]]: [[Evagoras Pallikaridis]] is arrested in [[Cyprus]] by the British.
 
  
 
==Births==
 
==Births==
===February===
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*[[1925]]: [[Christos Samaras]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
*[[February 12]]: [[Velimir Zajec]], footballer.
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*[[1933]]: [[Costa-Gavras]], film producer.
===March===
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*[[1944]]: [[Spyros Pomonis]], footballer
*[[March 9]]: [[Manthos Katsoulis]], [[basketball]] player
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*[[1956]]: [[Velimir Zajec]], footballer.
===September===
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*[[1959]]: [[Angeliki Nikolouli]], reporter.
*[[September 14]]: [[Costas Karamanlis]], Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic
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*[[1982]]: [[Louis Tsatoumas]], athlete ([[long jump]])
===October===
 
*[[October 18]]: [[Giorgos Kimoulis]], actor
 
*[[October 24]]: [[David Stergakos]], [[basketball]] player.
 
*[[October 27]]: [[Babis Tsertos]], musician, performer of traditional, folk and [[rebetiko]] songs
 
 
 
===November===
 
*[[November 13]]: [[Anna Verouli]], athlete.
 
===Unknown===
 
*[[Yiannis Kouros]], long-distance runner
 
  
 
==Deaths==
 
==Deaths==
===February===
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*[[1873]]: [[Spyridon Trikoupis]], politician
*[[February 7]]: [[Petros Yiallouros]], during the [[EOKA]] struggle.
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*[[1980]]: [[Georgia Vasiliadou]], stage and screen actress
*[[February 22]]: [[Alexandros Svolos]], politician, head of the "Government of the Mountains"
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*[[2004]]: [[Theodoros Polykandriotis]], [[Laika]] composer
*[[February 23]]: [[Marika Ninou]], singer.
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*[[2011]]: [[Konstantinos Kosmopoulos]], Mayor of [[Thessaloniki]].
 
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*[[2019]]: [[Antonis Poseidon]], footballer
===March===
 
*[[March 4]]: [[Giorgos Charalambous]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
===May===
 
*[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
*[[May 10]]: [[Andreas Dimitriou]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
===August===
 
*[[August 9]]: [[Iakovos Patatsos]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
*[[August 9]]: [[Charilaos Michail]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
*[[August 9]]: [[Andreas Zakos]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
 
 
===September===
 
*[[September 21]]: [[Andreas Panagidis]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
*[[September 21]]: [[Michalis Koutsoftas]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
*[[September 21]]: [[Stelios Mavrommatis]], [[EOKA]] fighter.
 
 
 
===November===
 
*[[November 14]]: [[Queen Elisabeth]] of Greece (wife of [[King George II]])
 
*[[November 23]]: [[Grigoris Georgakopoulos]], athlete ([[800m]], [[1500m]])
 
  
===December===
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[[Category:Days]]
*[[December 31]]: [[Michalis Georgalas]], [[EOKA]] fighter
 
===Unknown===
 
*[[Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos]], athlete
 
*[[Spyridon I]], [[Archbishop of Athens]] and all Greece
 
*[[Emmanouil Tsouderos]], banker, Prime Minister
 
 
[[Category:Years]]
 
[[Category:1956]]
 

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