Difference between revisions of "1975"

Revision as of 15:00, September 28, 2006

February 24: An attempted coup d'etat against the Karamanlis government is foiled. As many of the officers involved were arrested in the middle of the night, this goes down in history as the "Pyjamas coup d'etat".

August 23: The trial of George Papadopoulos, Stylianos Pattakos, Nikolaos Makarezos and other Junta members ends with the three former strongmen found guilty of insurrection and treason. They are sentenced to death.
August 29: PM Constantine Karamanlis converts the death sentences handed out to the Junta strongmen to life imprisonment sentences with the words "when I say 'life imprisonment', I MEAN 'life imprisonment'"!.

December 7: Vassilis Hadjipanagis plays his first game in Greece for Iraklis against Atromitos Athens (1-1). The game was held at the National Stadium of Veria.
December 30: The trial for the events at the Athens Polytechnic School student uprising comes to an end with all defendants found guilty as charged

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 ===August===
 *[[August 23]]: The trial of [[George Papadopoulos]], [[Stylianos Pattakos]], [[Nikolaos Makarezos]] and other [[Junta]] members ends with the three former strongmen found guilty of insurrection and treason. They are sentenced to death.
+*[[August 29]]: PM [[Constantine Karamanlis]] converts the death sentences handed out to the [[Junta]] strongmen to life imprisonment sentences with the words "when I say 'life imprisonment', I MEAN 'life imprisonment'"!.
 ===December===