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| + | *[[November 2]]: [[Dimitris Mitropoulos (composer)|Dimitris Mitropoulos]], music composer | ||
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Revision as of 15:46, October 13, 2006
Events
July
- July 31: Panathinaikos win the first Greek league title after beating AEK 2-1 in a playoff game.
August
- August 16: Cyprus is officially proclaimed a republic with Archbishop Makarios III as president and Dr Fazil Kucuk as vice-president.
- August 29: A woman is executed for the first time in Greece for a crime: she had strangled her pregnant daughter-in-law.
September
- September 8: Crown Prince Constantine wins gold at the Rome Olympiad in Dragon class sailing. His crew consisted of Odysseus Eskitzoglou and Giorgos Zaimis.
October
- October 1: Cyprus is officially declared an independent state.
- October 8: General Georgios Grivas announces the formation of a new political party: the "National Recovery Movement".
- October 27:: Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis inaugurates Kaftantzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki
November
- November 6: Panathinaikos play their first official European competitive football game against the Czechoslovakian team of Spartak Hradec Kralove for the European Champions Cup and lose 1-0.
Births
January
- January 13: Takis Lemonis, football player and coach.
March
- March 29: Marina Sirtis, Greek-British actress.
June
- June 1: Georgios Lilikas, Foreign Minister of Cyprus.
Deaths
May
- May 17: Ioannis Georgiadis, fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist
=November
- November 2: Dimitris Mitropoulos, music composer