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*[[October 30]]: [[Kostas Karyotakis]], poet | *[[October 30]]: [[Kostas Karyotakis]], poet | ||
==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
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| + | *[[March 30]]: [[Charilaos Trikoupis]], politician, Prime Minister | ||
===April=== | ===April=== | ||
*[[April 15]]: [[Georgios Vizyinos]], poet/writer. | *[[April 15]]: [[Georgios Vizyinos]], poet/writer. | ||
Revision as of 10:50, January 19, 2007
Events
April
- April 6: Commencement of the first modern Olympic Games. By the Julian calendar, the games commenced on March 25 - the national holiday of Greece - as a symbolic gesture.
- April 7: Leonidas Pyrgos becomes the first Greek to win an Olympic Gold Medal after defeating Frenchman Peronnet at fencing.
- April 10: Spiros Loues wins the marathon in the 1896 Athens Olympics.
Births
February
March
- March 1: Dimitris Mitropoulos, conductor
September
- September 4: Aspasia Manou, wife of King Alexander.
October
- October 30: Kostas Karyotakis, poet
Deaths
March
- March 30: Charilaos Trikoupis, politician, Prime Minister
April
- April 15: Georgios Vizyinos, poet/writer.