1968
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Events
March
- March 5: The National Route between Larisa and Thessaloniki is completed.
April
- April 4: In the Panathenaic Stadium, before 80,000 fans, AEK defeat Slavia Prague 89-82 and win the European Cup-winners Cup of Basketball.
July
- July 31: American chess Grandmaster Bobby Fisher plays five simultaneous games in Athens against Greek chess masters. He wins four - against Apostolopoulos, Christos Kokkoris, Ornithopoulos and Lazaros Vyzantiadis - and draws against Giorgos Trikaliotis.
October
- October 20: Aristotle Onassis marries Jackie Kennedy at island of Skorpios.
November
- November 3: The funeral for Georgios Papandreou turns into a protest against the military government of Georgios Papadopoulos
Births
June
- June 9: Niki Bakogianni, female athlete.
Deaths
July
- July 14 : Ilias Tsirimokos, politician, briefly Prime Minister of Greece
November
- November 1 : Georgios Papandreou, politician, Prime Minister of Greece