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===December=== | ===December=== | ||
*[[December 29]]: [[Greece]] replaces the [[oka]] with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight. | *[[December 29]]: [[Greece]] replaces the [[oka]] with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight. | ||
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| + | *[[July 26]]: [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], general and politician | ||
==Births== | ==Births== | ||
Revision as of 14:28, June 21, 2007
Events
April
- April 9: Dr. Alexander Fleming and his Greek assistant Amalia Katsouri announce their plans to wed.
May
- May 7: The Central Intelligence Agency of Greece (KYP) is established.
June
- June 18: Greek forces repel Chinese attacks on Hill 440 during the Korean War.
July
- July 24: The trial of Nikos Ploumpidis - alleged to be head of illegal KKE operations in Greece - commences.
August
- August 3: Nikos Ploumbidis is sentenced to death for espionage.
October
- October 21: Alexandra Ladikou is voted Miss World first runner-up.
November
- November 24: Spiros Markezinis, unofficially the Finance MInister of the Alexandros Papagos government, announces that he will proceed with "cutting off three zeroes from the currency bills." The value of the drachma against the dollar becomes 1 to 30 and not 1 to 30,000 as it had been.
December
- December 29: Greece replaces the oka with the kilogram as the standard measure of weight.
Deaths
July
- July 26: Nikolaos Plastiras, general and politician
Births
March
- March 5: Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, football coach
- March 25: Christos Ardizoglou, footballer
June
- June 15: Yiannis Pathiakakis, football player
November
- November 11: Costas Skandalidis, politician.
- November 17: Babis Tennes, football coach
Unknown
- Dimitris Avramopoulos, politician
- Angelos Anastasiadis, football player and coach
- Giorgos Foiros, football player and coach
- Glykeria, singer
- Giorgos Orfanos, politician