February 20

Events

• 1822: During the Greek War of Independence, a Greek flotilla under Andreas Miaoulis defeats a Turkish one under Karapepe Ali at Patra Bay.
• 1827: The National Assembly at Troezen elect Ioannis Kapodistrias as first Governor of Greece.
• 1913: The Battle of Bizani in the First Balkan War ends in Greek victory. Greek casualties number 812 dead and 1,500 wounded.
• 2006: A military helicopter (a multi-purpose Bell Iroquois UH-1H Huey dating back to 1969), went down in Melissi, Giannitsa, during a night training flight, killing all four army staff on board.

Sports

The legendary Adrianopoulos brothers

• 1895: First action taken towards the formation of an athletic federation. Panachaikos GS, GE Patra, Panellinios GS, Ethnikos GS and Panetolikos agree to setting up a union.
• 1927: 16 year-old Leonidas Andrianopoulos scores in a friendly match between Olympiakos and Falirikos Sindesmos (6-2). His brothers Dinos, Vassilis and Giorgos score the rest. The Andrianopoulos brothers became synonymous with Olympiakos. The eldest, Yiannis, established the club colours (red and white). In the same period (1926-32) Panathinaikos featured the Bogdanos brothers (Dimitris, Dimosthenis and Tassos)
• 1930: Greek Climbing Federation founded
• 1988: At the first Indoors Meeting Athina, held in Peace and Friendship Stadium, Niki Bakogianni sets new Greek record in high jump with 1.87m. Long jumper Kostas Koukodimos runs the 60m race in 6.85!
• 2000: Nikos Kaklamanakis wins the gold medal in Mistral World Championships at Mar del Plata, Argentina overcoming Aaron McIntosh of N.Zealand and Argentinian Carlos Espinola.
• 2002: For the first time in Greek volleyball history two teams, Olympiakos and Iraklis, qualify for the Champions League final four.

Births

• 1918: Harry Aurednik, football coach (AEK, Pierikos)

Deaths

• 1960: Vasilis Logothetidis, actor.
• 1994: Triantafyllos Siaperas, former chess champion. In 1967 he wrote one of the first books about chess in Greece.