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*[[April 13]]: [[Temuri Ketsbaia]] resigns as coach of [[Anorthosis Famagusta FC|Anorthosis Famagusta]] after five years at the helm. The Georgian had led Anorthosis into the CL Group Stage earlier in the season.
 
*[[April 13]]: [[Temuri Ketsbaia]] resigns as coach of [[Anorthosis Famagusta FC|Anorthosis Famagusta]] after five years at the helm. The Georgian had led Anorthosis into the CL Group Stage earlier in the season.
 
*[[April 19]]: The hard-line National Unity party win the elections in the occupied areas of [[Cyprus]]. Party leader, Dervis Eroglu, promises to support the ongoing negotiations between President [[Dimitris Christofias|Christofias]] and Talat.
 
*[[April 19]]: The hard-line National Unity party win the elections in the occupied areas of [[Cyprus]]. Party leader, Dervis Eroglu, promises to support the ongoing negotiations between President [[Dimitris Christofias|Christofias]] and Talat.
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*[[April 29]]: [[Athens 2004|2004 Olympic]] 20 km walk champion [[Athanasia Tsoumeleka]] tested positive for the blood booster CERA at last year's Beijing Games.
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*[[April 29]]: [[2004 Summer Olympics]] 20 km walk champion [[Athanasia Tsoumeleka]] tested positive for the blood booster CERA at last year's Beijing Games.
 
*[[April 30]]: The Greek weightlifting federation suspended two weightlifters, [[Giorgos Papadopoulos]] and [[Christina Filandrianou]] who tested positive for a banned stimulant during national games this year.
 
*[[April 30]]: The Greek weightlifting federation suspended two weightlifters, [[Giorgos Papadopoulos]] and [[Christina Filandrianou]] who tested positive for a banned stimulant during national games this year.
 
*[[April 30]]: The [[Athens Stock Exchange]] index hits a five month high after gains of  3.18%, closing at 2,053.74.
 
*[[April 30]]: The [[Athens Stock Exchange]] index hits a five month high after gains of  3.18%, closing at 2,053.74.
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===May===
 
===May===
 
*[[May 1]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 84-82 in their Euroleague semifinal matchup in Berlin.
 
*[[May 1]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 84-82 in their Euroleague semifinal matchup in Berlin.
 
*[[May 2]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] win the [[Greek Football Cup]] on penalties, after a 4-4 thriller of a final match against [[AEK FC|AEK]].
 
*[[May 2]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] win the [[Greek Football Cup]] on penalties, after a 4-4 thriller of a final match against [[AEK FC|AEK]].
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*[[May 3]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat CSKA Moscow 73-71 and win their fith Euroleague title.
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*[[May 3]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat CSKA Moscow 73-71 and win their fifth Euroleague title.
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*[[May 5]]: Greece's parliament votes against indicting a former minister Aristotelis Pavlidis in a corruption probe that could have forced early elections on the embattled [[New Democracy|conservative government]]. The vote over an alleged bribery scandal fell short of the 151 ballots required with only 146 lawmakers voting in favor and 144 against.
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*[[May 5]]: [[Hellenic Parliament|Greece's parliament]] votes against indicting a former minister [[Aristotelis Pavlidis]] in a corruption probe that could have forced early elections on the embattled [[New Democracy|conservative government]]. The vote over an alleged bribery scandal fell short of the 151 ballots required with only 146 lawmakers voting in favor and 144 against.
 
*[[May 7]]: A first instance court on [[Rhodes]] issues a ruling nullifying a pair of same-sex marriages conducted [[2008#June|last June]] on the isle of [[Tilos]].
 
*[[May 7]]: A first instance court on [[Rhodes]] issues a ruling nullifying a pair of same-sex marriages conducted [[2008#June|last June]] on the isle of [[Tilos]].
 
*[[May 8]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos Piraeus]] announces the club are not renewing the contract of coach [[Ernesto Valverde]] despite the Spaniard leading the club to the league title and [[Greek Soccer Cup|Greek Cup]].
 
*[[May 8]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos Piraeus]] announces the club are not renewing the contract of coach [[Ernesto Valverde]] despite the Spaniard leading the club to the league title and [[Greek Soccer Cup|Greek Cup]].
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*[[May 18]]: Greece confirms its first case of H1N1 flu, a student who returned from the United States a few days ago. He was first taken to the hospital by his father in the early hours of the day after experiencing a cough and high fever. After initial tests were conducted, he was told to return home but was later taken by ambulance to the [[Sismanoglio Hospital]] after the second test conducted at the [[Hellenic Pasteur Institute|Pasteur Institute]] came out positive, showing he had swine flu.
 
*[[May 18]]: Greece confirms its first case of H1N1 flu, a student who returned from the United States a few days ago. He was first taken to the hospital by his father in the early hours of the day after experiencing a cough and high fever. After initial tests were conducted, he was told to return home but was later taken by ambulance to the [[Sismanoglio Hospital]] after the second test conducted at the [[Hellenic Pasteur Institute|Pasteur Institute]] came out positive, showing he had swine flu.
 
*[[May 18]]: The United States announces that it is listing [[Revolutionary Struggle]] as a foreign terrorist organization after the Greek leftist group attacked US diplomatic and business interests.
 
*[[May 18]]: The United States announces that it is listing [[Revolutionary Struggle]] as a foreign terrorist organization after the Greek leftist group attacked US diplomatic and business interests.
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*[[May 18]]: [[Alexander the Great]] is named "the greatest Greek of all time" in a poll of viewers of Sky TV. Surprisingly, Dr [[George Papanicolaou]] wins second place while [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]] finishes third.
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*[[May 18]]: [[Alexander the Great]] is named "[[Sky TV poll on the greatest Greek|the greatest Greek of all time]]" in a poll of viewers of Sky TV. Surprisingly, Dr [[George Papanicolaou]] wins second place while [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]] finishes third.
 
*[[May 29]]: Former [[King Constantine II|King Constantine]], 68, undergoes a successful heart bypass operation at a private hospital in north London
 
*[[May 29]]: Former [[King Constantine II|King Constantine]], 68, undergoes a successful heart bypass operation at a private hospital in north London
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===June===
 
===June===
 
*[[June 1]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 91-84 and win the [[A1 Division|A1]] [[basketball]] championship in Greece for the seventh time in a row.
 
*[[June 1]]: [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]] defeat [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] 91-84 and win the [[A1 Division|A1]] [[basketball]] championship in Greece for the seventh time in a row.
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*[[June 1]]: [[Predrag Djordjevic]] announces his retirement from football. The [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] captain had been a mainstay in his team's midfield for the past 13 years.
 
*[[June 4]]: Greeks and Cypriots, along with other Europeans, go to the polls to elect their MEPs.
 
*[[June 4]]: Greeks and Cypriots, along with other Europeans, go to the polls to elect their MEPs.
 
*[[June 17]]: 41-year old police officer, Nektarios Savvas, is shot dead in the Patisia section of [[Athens]], while guarding a witness in the case against the [[Revolutionary People's Struggle]].
 
*[[June 17]]: 41-year old police officer, Nektarios Savvas, is shot dead in the Patisia section of [[Athens]], while guarding a witness in the case against the [[Revolutionary People's Struggle]].
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*[[June 19]]: Greek-born photo-journalist [[Iason Athanasiadis]] is among a number of foreign journalists arrested in Iran following the disputed presidential poll. He was on assignment for the Washington Times where he has been covering the post-election protests.
 
*[[June 20]]: The Acropolis Museum opens to the public.
 
*[[June 20]]: The Acropolis Museum opens to the public.
 
*[[June 22]]: The immediate closure of [[Athens]] daily [[Eleftheros Typos]] newspaper and its sister radio station [[City 99.5 FM]] is announced after billionaire businessman [[Theodore Angelopoulos]] and his wife [[Gianna Angelopoulou-Daskalaki]], the former head of the organizing committee for the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens Olympics]], decided to end their involvement in publishing.
 
*[[June 22]]: The immediate closure of [[Athens]] daily [[Eleftheros Typos]] newspaper and its sister radio station [[City 99.5 FM]] is announced after billionaire businessman [[Theodore Angelopoulos]] and his wife [[Gianna Angelopoulou-Daskalaki]], the former head of the organizing committee for the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens Olympics]], decided to end their involvement in publishing.
 
*[[June 22]]: The Greek extremist group [[Revolutionary Sect]], claims responsibility for the fatal shooting of officer Nektarios Savvas in a proclamation contained in a CD disk left for Greek daily [[Ta Nea]].
 
*[[June 22]]: The Greek extremist group [[Revolutionary Sect]], claims responsibility for the fatal shooting of officer Nektarios Savvas in a proclamation contained in a CD disk left for Greek daily [[Ta Nea]].
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*[[June 20]]: Greek-born photo-journalist [[Iason Athanasiadis]] is among a number of foreign journalists arrested in Iran following the disputed presidential poll. He was on assignment for the Washington Times.
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*[[June 24]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] acquire striker [[Djibril Cisse]] from Olympique Marseille for 8 million euros.
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*[[June 26]]: The wife of a Greek shipowner Aris Theodorides was freed unharmed, a week after being kidnapped outside her home in [[Athens]] after her family paid an undisclosed ransom. Reports said the woman was released unharmed in the early hours after her family paid a ransom of 1.8 million euros.
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*[[June 28]]: [[Greece]] wins five gold medals in rowing in the Mediterranean Games.
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*[[June 30]]: [[Nikoletta Kyriakopoulou]] wins gold for [[Greece]] in the Mediterranean Games in the women's [[pole vault]].
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*[[June 30]]: [[Eleni Artymata]] wins gold for [[Cyprus]] in the Mediterranean Games in the women's [[200m]].
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===July===
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*[[July 1]]: A ban on smoking in nearly all enclosed public places goes into effect throughout [[Greece]].
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*[[July 1]]: Two members of Greece's weightlifting team at the Mediterranean Games in Italy test positive for doping, according to the head of the [[Greek Weightlifting Federation]] (EOAB). [[Nikos Kourtidis]], who won two gold medals in the men's 94-kg category, and [[Konstantina Lapou]], who took silver in the women's 58-kg.
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*[[July 1]]: [[Panagiotis Gionis]] wins the Men's Singles title in the table tennis events at the Mediterranean Games in the Italian town of Pescara.
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*[[July 1]]: [[Anastasia Christophorou]] becomes the first [[Cypriot]] swimmer to win a gold medal in the Mediterranean Games in the 50m Breaststroke.
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*[[July 1]]: [[Kyriakos Ioannou]] wins gold for [[Cyprus]] in the Mediterranean Games in the [[high jump]].
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*[[July 1]]: [[Georgia Kokloni]] wins gold for [[Greece]] in the Mediterranean Games in the [[100m]].
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*[[July 2]]: [[Voisava Lika]] wins gold for [[Greece]] in the Mediterranean Games in the [[javelin throw]].
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*[[July 2]]: [[Athanasia Perra]] wins gold for [[Greece]] in the Mediterranean Games in the [[triple jump]].
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*[[July 5]]: Iran releases Greek reporter [[Iason Athanasiadis]]. Athanasiadis of The Washington Times was arrested on or around [[#June|June 19]]. Iran's State television quotes a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hasan Qashqavi, as saying that [[Iason Athanasiadis|Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden]] has been released in, what he described as the framework of Tehran-Athens ties.
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*[[July 7]]: The [[Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises]] (SETE) said the country's 13 biggest airports saw a total of 3.9 million arrivals during this period, down 9.6 per cent from last year. The the decline means a loss of more than 560,000 tourists which in turn translates into a loss of 19,000 jobs.
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*[[July 11]]: The Greek U19 [[basketball]] team defeat Australia 84-69 to advance to the final of the FIBA U19 World Basketball Championship.
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*[[July 12]]: Greece win second place in the FIBA U19 World [[Basketball]] Championship after losing 88-80 to the USA in the final.
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*[[July 12]]: Greek police demolish a make-shift immigrant camp outside [[Patra]] and arrest 15 illegal immigrants.
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*[[July 16]]: [[Savvas Siatravanis]] becomes the youngest Greek footballer to play in a European competition. He was inserted as a late substitute in the Europa League match between KR Rejkjavik and [[AE Larisa FC]].
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*[[July 25]]: The Greek U-20 [[basketball]] team defeat Spain 87-76 in the semifinal of the European Championship in [[Rhodes]].
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*[[July 26]]: The Greek U-20 [[basketball]] team defeat France 90-85 and win the European Championship.
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===August===
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*[[August 4]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] defeat Sparta Prague 3-0 to overturn their 1-3 loss in the first leg and advance in the Champions' League.
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*[[August 5]]: [[APOEL FC|APOEL]], despite a 0-1 loss in Belgrade, advance in the Champions' League, defeating Partizan 2-1 in aggregate.
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*[[August 13]]: Former [[AEK BC|AEK]] and [[Iraklis BC|Iraklis]] [[basketball]] player, [[Lavelle Felton]], is shot in Milwaukee, WI, USA. He will die the next day.
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*[[August 15]]: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, visits the Orthodox orphanage and the monastery of St George Koudounas in the [[Prince's Islands]].
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*[[August 20]]: [[Eleni Artymata]] becomes the first [[Cypriot]] woman to qualify for the finals of the World Championships in [[athletics]]. She did so in the [[200m]] with a time of 22.64 - a new Cypriot record.
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*[[August 21]]: [[Kyriakos Ioannou]] of [[Cyprus]] wins the silver medal in the [[high jump]] at the Berlin World Championship of [[athletics]] with a 2.32m performance.
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*[[August 21]]: A wildfire breaks out late in the village of Grammatiko about 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Athems and quickly spreads to neighboring villages.
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*[[August 22]]: More than 70 wildfires break out throughout Greece.
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*[[August 24]]: Helped by a lull in winds, fire fighters beat back wildfires that swept through suburbs of [[Athens]] and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
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*[[August 26]]: [[APOEL FC]] defeat FC Kobenhavn 3-1 and advance to the group stage of the Champions' League for the first time in their history.
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*[[August 26]]: The fires around the Greek capital were put out or contained to tiny areas, after razing 80 square miles (210 square kilometers) of forest and hillside scrub.
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*[[August 27]]: A Greek fire-fighting plane crashes while battling a blaze on the [[Ionian Sea]] island of [[Kefalonia]], killing the pilot.
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===September===
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*[[September 2]]: A bomb explodes outside the [[Athens Stock Exchange]], slightly injuring a woman and damaging the building. Terrorist group [[Revolutionary Struggle]] take credit for the act.
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*[[September 2]]: A bomb explodes at a government building (ministry of Macedonia-Thrace) in [[Thessaloniki]]. The explosion caused minor damage and no injuries.
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*[[September 2]]: Prime Minister [[Costas Karamanlis]] calls early general elections, stressing need for economic reform and blaming [[PASOK]].
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* [[September 6]]: [[Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire]] say in a statement they were behind the blast at a ministry in [[Thessaloniki]] on September 2.
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*[[September 7]]: The [[National Basketball Team]] of Greece start off Eurobasket 2009 with a convincing 86-54 victory over FYROM.
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*[[September 10]]: The second phase of the formal direct negotiations, between President [[Dimitris Christofias]] and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, begin in [[Cyprus]] with the aim of re-unifying the divided island.
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*[[September 15]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] sack coach [[Timur Ketsbaia]] on the eve of their CL Group stage opener against AZ Alkmaar.
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*[[September 15]]: [[APOEL FC|APOEL]] play their first game in the CL Group Stage and come away with a 0-0 draw against Atletico Madrid in Estadio Vicente Calderon.
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*[[September 17]]: The new Europa League group stage commences. [[AEK FC|AEK]] and [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] lose to Everton (0-4) and Galatasaray (1-3) respectively.
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*[[September 18]]: The [[Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works (Greece)|Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works]] issues a permit to [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] to build a new stadium at [[Votanikos]], [[Athens]].
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*[[September 18]]: The [[National Basketball Team]] of Greece qualify for the semifinals of Eurobasket 2009 with an overtime 76-74 victory over Turkey.
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*[[September 19]]: [[National Basketball Team|Greece]] lose 82-64 to Spain in the semifinals of Eurobasket 2009.
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*[[September 20]]: [[National Basketball Team|Greece]] defeat Slovenia 57-56 and win third place in Eurobasket 2009.
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*[[September 23]]: Police in [[Athens]] arrest four suspected of belonging to the small leftist guerrilla group [[Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire]], in raids following the explosion of a bomb a day before which caused only minor damage outside the home of opposition socialist member [[Loukas Katselis]].
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*[[September 28]]: [[Olympic Airlines]] ceases to operate.
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*[[September 29]]: [[Olympic Air]] commences limited unofficial operations.
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===October===
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*[[October 1]]: The first official flight by [[Olympic Air]], conducted by an Airbus 320, takes off from [[Athens]]' [[Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport]] (AIA) at 7:45 a.m. and arrives in [[Thessaloniki|Thessaloniki's]] [[Macedonia Airport]] at 8:15 a.m.
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*[[October 4]]: [[Giorgos Papandreou]]'s [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]] triumphs in the parliamentary elections.
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*[[October 6]]: [[Giorgos Papandreou]] is sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece.
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*[[October 6]]: The [[Athens Stock Exchange]] closes at a year-high 2,678.50 after gains of 3.77%.
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*[[October 7]]: The members of [[Giorgos Papandreou]]'s cabinet are sworn in. The new cabinet includes nine women: five ministers and four deputy ministers.
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*[[October 9]]: [[PAOK FC|PAOK Thessaloniki]] appoints technical manager [[Zissis Vryzas]] as its new chairman, replacing former [[National Football Team|Greece]] teammate [[Theo Zagorakis]].
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*[[October 10]]: [[Fanis Gekas]] scores four goals as [[National Football Team|Greece]] crush Latvia 5-2.
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*[[October 14]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] qualify for the playoffs, in their World Cup 2010 campaign, by defeating Luxembourg 2-1.
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*[[October 19]]: PM [[Giorgos Papandreou]] pays an official state visit to [[Cyprus]].
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*[[October 27]]: A little-known Greek guerrilla group, [[The Council for the Deconstruction of Order]], claims responsibility for makeshift bomb attacks outside the party offices of Justice Minister [[Harris Kastanidis]] and Deputy Civil Protection Minister [[Spyros Vougias]] on [[October 23]] in [[Thessaloniki]].
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*[[October 28]]: Gunmen wound six officers outside an  [[Agia Paraskevi]], [[Athens]] police station by firing nearly 100 rounds from Kalashnikov assault rifles in a drive-by attack.
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*[[October 30]]: A small bomb explodes outside the private residence of [[Marietta Giannakou]], a former education minister under [[New Democracy]] government and a current Greek member of the European Parliament, near the center of [[Athens]], causing damage but no injuries. Two smaller bombs were detonated near the Spanish consulate in [[Thessaloniki]] and a car dealership in Athens, also without resulting in injuries.
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*[[October 31]]: [[PAOK BC|PAOK]] defeat [[Aris BC|Aris]] 83-48. The 35-point difference is the greatest ever recorded in encounters between the two [[Thessaloniki]] clubs.
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===November===
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*[[November 3]]: A new group calling itself the [[Cell of Rebels]] claim responsibility for Sunday, [[November 1|Nov. 1]] bomb blast at a shopping center in the northern suburb of [[Kifissia]].
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*[[November 3]]: Prime Minister [[George Papandreou]] tells an international forum on migration in Athens that all children born to migrants from now on will automatically acquire Greek citizenship
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*[[November 4]]: Ban Ki-moon becomes the first Secretary-General of the United Nations to visit [[Greece]].
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*[[November 10]]: The new airport of [[Larnaca]] begins operations.
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*[[November 16]]: Greece launches vaccination campaigns against swine flu (H1N1).
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*[[November 18]]: [[National Football Team|Greece]] qualify for the finals of World Cup 2010 after a 1-0 victory in Donetsk against Ukraine.
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*[[November 26]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] closes at 2,225.32 - a loss of 6.21%, which is the greatest loss of the year.
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*[[November 29]]: A good day for [[Olympiakos]] as they defeat their eternal opponents [[Panathinaikos]] both in [[football (soccer)|football]] (2-0) and [[basketball]] (87-76).
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*[[November 29]]: [[Antonis Samaras]] is elected leader of the [[New Democracy]] party from the first round. His main opponent was former Foreign Minister [[Dora Bakoyannis]].
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===December===
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*[[December 8]]: The [[Athens Stock Market]] closes at 2,178.70 - a loss of 6.04% - which is the lowest level since July.
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*[[December 8]]: [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] sack coach [[Henk ten Cate]].
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*[[December 8]]: [[APOEL FC|APOEL]] come away with a 2-2 Champions' League draw at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. It was the first time, all season long, that Chelsea had failed to win at home and the first goals they conceded since last August!
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*[[December 9]]: [[Olympiakos FC|Olympiakos]] defeat Arsenal 1-0 to advance out of the Group Stage of the Champions' League.
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*[[December 11]]: Unknown individuals steal the corpse of [[Tassos Papadopoulos]] from Deftera Cemetery, [[Cyprus]].
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*[[December 15]]: PM [[Giorgos Papandreou]] announces a series of austerity measures designed to reduce the national deficit.
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*[[December 28]]: The self proclaimed radical anarchist group [[Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire]] claimed responsibility for an explosion late December 27 near the buildings of the [[National Bank of Greece]] and a big private insurance company on a central boulevard in [[Athens]].
  
 
==Deaths==
 
==Deaths==
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*[[January 13]]: [[Thanasis Saravakos]], footballer.
 
*[[January 13]]: [[Thanasis Saravakos]], footballer.
 
*[[January 18]]: [[Danae Stratigopoulou]], singer, songwriter, musician.
 
*[[January 18]]: [[Danae Stratigopoulou]], singer, songwriter, musician.
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*[[January 21]]: [[Dimitris Persidis]], footballer.
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===February===
 
===February===
 
*[[February 2]]: [[Giorgos Pantelakis]], former President of [[PAOK FC|PAOK]].
 
*[[February 2]]: [[Giorgos Pantelakis]], former President of [[PAOK FC|PAOK]].
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*[[June 10]]: [[Stelios Skevofilakas]], footballer
 
*[[June 10]]: [[Stelios Skevofilakas]], footballer
 
*[[June 24]]: İsmet Güney, Turkish-Cypriot designer of the [[flag of Cyprus]].
 
*[[June 24]]: İsmet Güney, Turkish-Cypriot designer of the [[flag of Cyprus]].
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*[[June 27]]: [[Spyros Kalogirou]], actor
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===July===
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*[[July 7]]: [[Costas Chimonides]], [[high jump]] athlete, coach
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===August===
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*[[August 3]]: [[Nikolaos Makarezos]], member of the military [[junta]] that governed Greece ([[1967]] - [[1973]])
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*[[August 14]]: [[Lavelle Felton]], [[basketball]] player.
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*[[August 24]]: [[Yiannis Mertziotis]], athlete ([[1500m]], [[5000m]], [[3000m steeplechase]])
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===September===
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*[[September 2]]: [[Stelios Tavoularis]], [[basketball]] player.
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*[[September 11]]: [[Georgios Papoulias]], diplomat, Foreign Minister.
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*[[September 11]]: [[Manolis Klikopoulos]], footballer.
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*[[September 29]]: [[Sperantza Vrana]], actress
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===October===
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*[[October 27]]: [[Elli Pappa]], leftist writer and reporter.
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===November===
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*[[November 11]]: [[Savvas Hadjiioannou]], footballer
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*[[November 15]]: [[Antonio de Nigris]], footballer for [[AE Larisa FC|AE Larisa]]
  
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===December===
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*[[December 20]]: [[Yiannis Moralis]], painter
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*[[December 21]]: [[Christos Lambrakis]], publisher
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*[[December 28]]: [[Galateia Sarante]], author
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[[Category:Years]]
 
[[Category:2009]]
 
[[Category:2009]]

Latest revision as of 13:32, July 11, 2020

Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 1: Panathinaikos defeat Olympiakos 84-82 in their Euroleague semifinal matchup in Berlin.
  • May 2: Olympiakos win the Greek Football Cup on penalties, after a 4-4 thriller of a final match against AEK.
  • May 3: Panathinaikos defeat CSKA Moscow 73-71 and win their fifth Euroleague title.
  • May 5: Greece's parliament votes against indicting a former minister Aristotelis Pavlidis in a corruption probe that could have forced early elections on the embattled conservative government. The vote over an alleged bribery scandal fell short of the 151 ballots required with only 146 lawmakers voting in favor and 144 against.
  • May 7: A first instance court on Rhodes issues a ruling nullifying a pair of same-sex marriages conducted last June on the isle of Tilos.
  • May 8: Olympiakos Piraeus announces the club are not renewing the contract of coach Ernesto Valverde despite the Spaniard leading the club to the league title and Greek Cup.
  • May 8: Former Greek transport minister, Christos Verelis, resigns his seat in parliament after a prosecutor ordered a corruption probe into a bus contract to Neoplan, a subsidiary of German truckmaker and industrial company MAN AG.
  • May 14: Olympiakos Piraeus play a friendly in Hanoi, losing 1-0 to the national team of Vietnam.
  • May 16: Angeliki Exarchou crushed her national record in the women's 200 breast with a time of 2:27.39 during the first night of long course meter swimming at the Czech Grand Prix. Her performance wiped out the 2:29.44 national mark she set back in 2005.
  • May 18: Greece confirms its first case of H1N1 flu, a student who returned from the United States a few days ago. He was first taken to the hospital by his father in the early hours of the day after experiencing a cough and high fever. After initial tests were conducted, he was told to return home but was later taken by ambulance to the Sismanoglio Hospital after the second test conducted at the Pasteur Institute came out positive, showing he had swine flu.
  • May 18: The United States announces that it is listing Revolutionary Struggle as a foreign terrorist organization after the Greek leftist group attacked US diplomatic and business interests.
  • May 18: Alexander the Great is named "the greatest Greek of all time" in a poll of viewers of Sky TV. Surprisingly, Dr George Papanicolaou wins second place while Theodoros Kolokotronis finishes third.
  • May 29: Former King Constantine, 68, undergoes a successful heart bypass operation at a private hospital in north London

June

July

August

  • August 4: Panathinaikos defeat Sparta Prague 3-0 to overturn their 1-3 loss in the first leg and advance in the Champions' League.
  • August 5: APOEL, despite a 0-1 loss in Belgrade, advance in the Champions' League, defeating Partizan 2-1 in aggregate.
  • August 13: Former AEK and Iraklis basketball player, Lavelle Felton, is shot in Milwaukee, WI, USA. He will die the next day.
  • August 15: Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan, visits the Orthodox orphanage and the monastery of St George Koudounas in the Prince's Islands.
  • August 20: Eleni Artymata becomes the first Cypriot woman to qualify for the finals of the World Championships in athletics. She did so in the 200m with a time of 22.64 - a new Cypriot record.
  • August 21: Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus wins the silver medal in the high jump at the Berlin World Championship of athletics with a 2.32m performance.
  • August 21: A wildfire breaks out late in the village of Grammatiko about 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Athems and quickly spreads to neighboring villages.
  • August 22: More than 70 wildfires break out throughout Greece.
  • August 24: Helped by a lull in winds, fire fighters beat back wildfires that swept through suburbs of Athens and forced thousands of people to flee their homes.
  • August 26: APOEL FC defeat FC Kobenhavn 3-1 and advance to the group stage of the Champions' League for the first time in their history.
  • August 26: The fires around the Greek capital were put out or contained to tiny areas, after razing 80 square miles (210 square kilometers) of forest and hillside scrub.
  • August 27: A Greek fire-fighting plane crashes while battling a blaze on the Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia, killing the pilot.

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