Difference between revisions of "1963"

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May 22: MP Grigoris Lambrakis is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in Thessaloniki. He will die five days later.
May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, a leftist politician, succumbs to his injuries of May 22.

June 2: AEK defeat Iraklis 5-0 for the Greek League. All five goals are scored by Kostas Nestoridis.
June 11: Constantine Karamanlis resigned the premiership after a disagreement with King Paul of Greece

November 3: Georgios Papandreou's political party, Center Union, emerges the winner in the national elections held, and forms a minority government with 42.2% of the votes.
November 30: Archbishop Makarios III proposes 13 amendments to the constitution of Cyprus.

December 3 : Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students.
December 9: Constantine Karamanlis resigns from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.
December 21: The Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964 begins with a firefight in Nicosia that leaves one Greek Cypriot policeman and two Turkish Cypriot civilians dead.
December 27: Student rallies take place in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of a union between Greece and Cyprus.

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 ===May===
-*[[May 27]]:  [[Grigoris Lambrakis]], a leftist politician is assassinated in [[Thessaloniki]]
+*[[May 22]]: MP [[Grigoris Lambrakis]] is run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists (Emmanouil Emmanouilidis and Spyros Gotzamanis) after delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in [[Thessaloniki]]. He will die five days later.
+*[[May 27]]:  [[Grigoris Lambrakis]], a leftist politician, succumbs to his injuries of [[May 22]].
 ===June===