Difference between revisions of "June 10"

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1877: The Hellenic Red Cross was established following the initiative of Queen Olga.
1942: King George II arrives in the USA to seek aid for the Greek war effort.
1944: German occupation troops execute 218 Greeks in Distomo, Boeotia prefecture.
1949: 1,000 Greek communists, who have signed a declaration of repentance, are freed from the various concentration camps in Greece.
1956: The Lycabettus funicular came into operation
1996: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is named an honourary member of the Athens Academy.

1987: Greece brush aside Italy 90-78 in their quarterfinal game of Eurobasket 1987.
2008: European soccer champions Greece began the defence of the title won as outsiders during the last tournament with a disappointing 0-2 defeat at the hands of Sweden.

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 *[[2008]]: [[National Football Team|European soccer champions Greece]] began the [[Euro 2008|defence of the title]] won as outsiders during [[Euro 2004|the last tournament]] with a disappointing 0-2 defeat at the hands of Sweden.
+==Births==
+*[[1958]]: [[Christos Dimopoulos]], footballer
 ==Deaths==
 *[[2009]]: [[Stelios Skevofilakas]], footballer
+*[[2018]]: [[Pavlos Giannakopoulos]], basketball president
+*[[2022]]: [[Billy Bingham]], [[football]] coach who worked for [[PAOK FC|PAOK]] and the [[National Football Team]] of Greece.
+*[[2023]]: [[Yiannis Markopoulos]], composer.
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