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| + | ===July=== | ||
| + | *[[July 24]]: The trial of [[Nikos Ploumpidis]] - alleged to be head of illegal [[KKE]] operations in Greece - commences. | ||
===August=== | ===August=== | ||
*[[August 3]]: [[Nikos Ploumbidis]] is sentenced to death for espionage. | *[[August 3]]: [[Nikos Ploumbidis]] is sentenced to death for espionage. | ||
Revision as of 15:24, July 24, 2006
Events
July
- July 24: The trial of Nikos Ploumpidis - alleged to be head of illegal KKE operations in Greece - commences.
August
- August 3: Nikos Ploumbidis is sentenced to death for espionage.
October
- October 21: Alexandra Ladikou is voted Miss World first runner-up.
November
- November 24: Spiros Markezinis, unofficially the Finance MInister of the Alexandros Papagos government, announces that he will proceed with "cutting off three zeroes from the currency bills." The value of the drachma against the dollar becomes 1 to 30 and not 1 to 30,000 as it had been.
December
- December 29: Greece replaces the oka with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight.
Births
June
- June 15: Yiannis Pathiakakis, football player