1938

Events

January

• January 9: Crown Prince Paul of Greece marries Princess Frederika in Athens.
• January 22: Greece defeat Palestine 3-1 in Tel Aviv (Kleanthis Vikelidis 2, Antonis Migiakis 1). It is the first away victory for the National Football Team. From 1929 till the beginning of the war Greece played only 32 matches.

March

• March 25: The National Football Team of Greece suffer their worst defeat ever losing 11-1 to Hungary in Budapest. The half-time score was 7-0.

June

• June 2: The RHS Vasilissa Olga is launched.
• June 12: Panathinaikos go ahead of Olympiakos 4-0 by the 59th minute of play but Yiannis Vazos proceeds to score 4 goals in the remaining 31 minutes to equalise.

July

• July 28: A revolt against the Ioannis Metaxas dictatorship is put down in Chania, Crete.

September

• September 11: The ancient theatre of Epidaurus is put to use again - after 2000 years. The first play put on is "Electra" by Sophocles.

October

• October 4: The Greek traffic police is established.

November

• November 18: PM Ioannis Metaxas leaves for Ankara to attend the funeral of Kemal Ataturk.

Births

January

• January 25: Elias Papakyriakou, EOKA fighter.

February

• February 10: Giorgos Petridis, footballer.
• February 27: Evagoras Pallikaridis, EOKA fighter.

May

• May 27: Socrates Kokkalis, businessman, owner of Olympiakos

July

• July 19: Georgios Iakovou, Cypriot politician.

August

• August 2: Dimos Moutsis, composer
• August 9: Otto Rehhagel, football coach
• August 17: Theodoros Pangalos (PASOK MP)
• August 25: Yiannis Fertis, actor
• August 29: Petros Yiallouros, leading member of ANE, the EOKA youth movement, who was slain at a demonstration.

November

• November 2: Princess Sophia of Greece the future Queen of Spain.

Unknown

• Giorgos Sideris, footballer

Deaths

March

• March 27: Andreas Michalakopoulos, politician, Prime Minister

October

• October 22: Archbishop of Athens Chrysostom I.