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*[[April 10]]: The hospital ship "Attica" is sunk off Cape Kafireas by Axis aircraft. Aboard the ship, captained by Dimitrios Meletopoulos, were several wounded soldiers. | *[[April 10]]: The hospital ship "Attica" is sunk off Cape Kafireas by Axis aircraft. Aboard the ship, captained by Dimitrios Meletopoulos, were several wounded soldiers. | ||
*[[April 18]]: Days before Greece capitulates to the Germans, PM [[Alexandros Korizis]] commits suicide. | *[[April 18]]: Days before Greece capitulates to the Germans, PM [[Alexandros Korizis]] commits suicide. | ||
| + | *[[April 27]]: The Germans enter [[Athens]] during [[World War II]]. | ||
===May=== | ===May=== | ||
Revision as of 19:19, June 3, 2006
Events
January
- January 29: PM Ioannis Metaxas dies in office. He is replaced by Alexandros Korizis.
March
- March 17: The first British and New Zealand troops arrive in Greece as a German attack is deemed imminent.
April
- April 10: The hospital ship "Attica" is sunk off Cape Kafireas by Axis aircraft. Aboard the ship, captained by Dimitrios Meletopoulos, were several wounded soldiers.
- April 18: Days before Greece capitulates to the Germans, PM Alexandros Korizis commits suicide.
- April 27: The Germans enter Athens during World War II.
May
- May 20: The Battle of Crete begins.
- May 30: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas take down the German flag from the Acropolis, Athens.
June
September
- September 29: The massacre of Doxato, Drama prefecture, takes place as Bulgarian occupation forces kill 350 Greek men from the town aged 16 - 50.
Deaths
January
- January 29: Ioannis Metaxas, Greek PM during World War II.
April
- April 18: Alexandros Korizis, Greek PM who succeeded Metaxas.
- April 27: Penelope Delta, writer