1960

Events

April

• April 30: Greece defeat Israel 2-1 thanks to two late Babis Serafeidis goals.

May

• May 5: Sophoklis Venizelos calls for the legalisation of the Communist Party of Greece.

July

• July 3: Athens daily "To Vima" announces it will no longer print two obsolete diacritics of the Greek language: the grave accent ("vareia") and the iota subscript ("ypogegrammeni").

• July 31: Panathinaikos win the first Greek league title after beating AEK 2-1 in a playoff game.

August

• August 16: Cyprus is officially proclaimed a republic with Archbishop Makarios III as president and Dr Fazil Kucuk as vice-president.
• August 29: A woman is executed for the first time in Greece for a crime: she had strangled her pregnant daughter-in-law.

September

• September 8: Crown Prince Constantine wins gold at the Rome Olympiad in Dragon class sailing. His crew consisted of Odysseus Eskitzoglou and Giorgos Zaimis.
• September 17: Cyprus is accepted into the UN.

October

• October 1: Cyprus is officially declared an independent state.
• October 8: General Georgios Grivas announces the formation of a new political party: the "National Recovery Movement".
• October 27:: Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis inaugurates Kaftantzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki

November

• November 6: Panathinaikos play their first official European competitive football game against the Czechoslovakian team of Spartak Hradec Kralove for the European Champions Cup and lose 1-0.

Births

January

• January 13: Takis Lemonis, football player and coach.

March

• March 29: Marina Sirtis, Greek-British actress.

June

• June 1: Georgios Lilikas, Foreign Minister of Cyprus.

Deaths

February

• February 20: Vasilis Logothetidis, actor.

May

• May 17: Ioannis Georgiadis, fencer, Olympic Gold Medalist

June

• June 6: Christos Mantikas, athlete.

November

• November 2: Dimitris Mitropoulos, music composer