Difference between revisions of "1963"

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April 21: MP Gregoris Lambrakis marches alone in the Marathon to Athens peace rally that was banned by the police.

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
June 16: King Paul of Greece appoints Panagiotis Pipinelis as Prime Minster following Constantine Karamanlis' resignation
June 23: AEK celebrate their first post-World War II championship as they draw 3-3 with Panathinaikos in a playoff game. Mimis Papaioannou (2) and Kostas Nestoridis score for the champions (the latter directly from a corner kick).

September 18: Olympiakos defeat Levski Sofia 1-0 in Istanbul and are crowned Champions of the Balkans. Centre back Mimis Stefanakos headed home the winning goal in the 87th minute.

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 27: The players of PAOK walk off the pitch when the Bulgarian referee denies them an obvious penalty against Olympiakos. Olympiakos are awarded the match 2-0 (forfeit).
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.
December 30: Banker Ioannis Paraskevopoulos forms a caretaker government as elections are proclaimed for February 1964.
December 30: The Green Line, separating the Greek and Turkish sectors of Lefkosia, is agreed upon by the two communities.

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 *[[June 11]]:  [[Constantine Karamanlis]] resigned the premiership after a disagreement with King [[Paul of Greece]]
 *[[June 16]]: King [[Paul of Greece]] appoints [[Panagiotis Pipinelis]] as Prime Minster following [[Constantine Karamanlis|Constantine Karamanlis']] resignation
+*[[June 23]]: [[AEK FC|AEK]] celebrate their first post-[[World War II]] championship as they draw 3-3 with [[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]] in a playoff game. [[Mimis Papaioannou]] (2) and [[Kostas Nestoridis]] score for the champions (the latter directly from a corner kick).
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