2007

Events

January

• January 12: The U.S. Embassy in Athens was hit by a rocket in an attack that anonymous callers claimed was staged by a left-wing group. Police said the attack was carried out by a domestic terror group. 　There were no casualties.
• January 16: Students and teachers take to the streets in Athens to protest the Government-sponsored Education Reform Bill 16.
• January 27:Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos), at the age of 16 years, 9 months and 24 days joins the list of soccer players under 17 to score in the Greek top soccer division (Panathinaikos - Panionios 2-0).

February

• February 3: Louis Tsatoumas breaks the Greek indoor record for the long jump with 8.17m.
• February 9: The body of Yiannis Vartholomeos, head of the Social Insurance Institute (IKA), was found in the stairwell of an apartment block in the central Zografou area.
• February 14: Vasilis Tsiartas retires from football
• February 17: Greek-Australian Michael Katsidis wins the World Boxing Organisation interim lightweight title by defeating Graham Earl.
• February 25: Olympic judo champion Ilias Iliadis wins gold medal at Super World Cup in Hamburg in 90-kilo division
• February 25: Greek-Australian film producer George Miller wins an Oscar for best animated feature with his penguin-dancing film Happy Feet.

March

• March 15: Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed a tripartite inter-state agreement in Athens, opening the way for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, connecting the western Black Sea with the Mediterranean.
• March 24: Greece are defeated 4-1 at Karaiskaki Stadium by Turkey in a Euro 2008 qualifier.
• March 25: Panathinaikos win the Greek Basketball Cup for the third year running by defeating AGO Rethymno 87-48
• March 29: A 25-year old fan is killed during riots in Athens, prior to a women's volleyball game between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.
• March 31: Greek authorities suspend all team matches until April 13, following the death of a fan in a pre-arranged battle between rival club supporters.

April

• April 27: Employment minister Savvas Tsitouridis resigns after weeks of government criticism that followed the discovery that a state pension fund had overpaid € 4.8 million (US$6.4 million) for state bonds.

May

• May 5: AE Larisa defeat Panathinaikos 2-1 to capture the Greek Football Cup.
• May 6: Panathinaikos claim their fourth European basketball title as they defeat CSKA Moscow 93-91.
• May 12: Sarbel sang Ya Sou, Maria representing Greece at the Eurovision 2007 song contest in Helsinki, Finland. He finished outside the top 5.
• May 12: Rivaldo quits Olympiakos after negotiations for a contract extension break down.
• May 16: The European Commission concludes that Cyprus fulfils the necessary conditions to adopt the euro and proposes that Cyprus do so on 1 January 2008.
• May 29: Rivaldo signs with AEK Athens a two year deal.

June

• June 11: Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Church of Greece, was hospitalized in Athens with symptoms of gastroenteritis.
• June 12: Archbishop Christodoulos undergoes surgery Tuesday to prevent narrowing of his large intestine.
• June 18: Nikos Galis is inducted into the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Hall of Fame
• June 20: Panathinaikos beat rival Olympiakos 89-76 to win its fifth straight Greek league basketball title and completing the season as a triple crown winner -- championship, cup and European Championship.
• June 21: Christodoulos was diagnosed with a "treatable" type of liver cancer in tandem with an "unrelated" malignant growth in the large intestine, which was removed via surgery last week.
• June 28: Dozens of forest fires, caused by one of the worst heat waves in years, claim the lives of two people in Thessaly and threaten the suburbs of Athens as Mt Parnitha is engulfed in flames.
• June 29: The European Union announces that it is placing the Greek far-left group Revolutionary Struggle (Epanastatikos Agonas) on its "terrorist list", which automatically freezes financial assets and funding to it.

July

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Wildfires threatened Mavriki in Peloponnese onj July 25

• July 2: Senior US diplomat to Cyprus, Tom Mooney, is found dead near Kalopanagiotis.
• July 2: Archbishop Christodoulos was readmitted to intensive care after doctors said his health had deteriorated.
• July 2: Constantinos Douvalidis set a new national record, at the Tsiklitiria Grand Prix track and field meeting in Athens, in the men's 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.54 seconds. However, he ended last in his heat.
• July 10: AKEL pull out of the coalition that has governed Cyprus for the past 4.5 years.
• July 10: The Finance Ministers of the EU lock the Cyprus pound to the euro - at the rate 1 euro = 0.585274 pounds - in preparation for the 01/01/2008 switch of currencies by Cyprus.
• July 11: Three firefighters died while battling a blaze in a forested, mountainous area outside the city of Rethymnon on Crete's northern coast.
• July 12: It was announce that Christodoulos would be transferred to a hospital in the United States to undergo a liver transplant by Greek-American transplant surgeon Andreas Tzakis, of the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida.
• July 12: Hundreds of holidaymakers have been evacuated from hotels on the Greek island of Skiathos to escape raging forest fires.
• July 13: Lefteris Zagoritis was re-elected as ruling New Democracy's Central Committee Secretary by 403 votes out of 525.
• July 14: Kostas Douvalidis sets a new Greek record in the 110m hurdles with 13.49.
• July 16: Firefighters extinguished a blaze on the lower slopes of Mount Hymettus, after flames came to within 100 meters (yards) of apartment buildings, forced the evacuation of a children's care home — and led authorities to uncover an arms cache buried in a forest. On the same day, fires burned out of control on the islands Evia and Kos, as well as outside the city of Pyrgos on the southern Greek mainland.
• July 17: Hundreds of firefighters, with the assistance of planes and helicopters, battled forest fires in the central town of Nafpaktos, Kyparissia, located in the south-eastern Peloponnese near Kalamata and Psahna on the island of Evia.
• July 25: Forest fires were raging out of control today in Greece, forcing thousands to flee their homes as entire villages burned down. Affected areas include Mavriki and Corinth, the southern Peloponnese near Mount Tayetos, Kozani, Kastoria and Ioannina in north Greece, and the island of Kefalonia, where the flames threatened a nature reserve that is home to native ponies. Temperatures in Argos, Lamia, Serres and Eleusis, near Athens, hit 45C (113F) - approaching the 46C (114.8F) of late June.
• July 27: The Greek Under-19 football team play in the final of the European Cup in Linz, Austria, where they lose 1-0 to Spain.

August

Smoke from forest fires in the Peloponnese

• August 17: PM Costas Karamanlis formally requests that President Karolos Papoulias dissolve Parliament and proclaim general elections.
• August 18: Christodoulos leaves from Elefsina military airport shortly after 9 AM on a flight to Miami, USA, to undergo liver transplant surgery.
• August 20: Police clash with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man in Thessaloniki the previous day.
• August 22: Theo Zagorakis played his 120th and final game for Greece — a national record - in a friendly game against Spain (2-3) held in his honor at Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki.
• August 24: 63 people died as huge forest fires, fanned by gale-force winds, raged out of control in the Peloponnese and other parts of the country. The worst fire was in the area of Zacharo, in the western Peloponnese, where 10 deaths were reported. It was the single most fatal day in a summer.
• August 31: Chrysopiyi Devetzi won the Bronze Medal in Osaka's 11th IAAF World Championship in Athletics, in the final of Women's Triple Jump, with a 15.04 m long jump in her first effort.

September

• September 2: Storms caused some flooding in the northern area of Halkidiki.
• September 3: Fires are still burning in the Mount Parnon area in the Peloponnese.
• September 3: Angeliki Andrionopoulou won gold (54.9m in ladies jump) and silver (women triathlon with 2,759.11 points) medals at the World Water-ski Championship held in Linz, Austria.
• September 3: Greece won the silver medal in the Rowing World Championships, as Vassilis Polymeros and Dimitris Mougios finished second in the lightweight double sculls final in Munich.

Deaths

January

• January 17: Pefkios Georgiadis, Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus.
• January 30: Nikos Kourkoulos, actor

February

• February 6: Alekos Papadopoulos, football player and coach.

March

• March 24: Grigoris Farakos, one-time chairman of the Communist Party of Greece.
• March 26: Babis Bakalis, laika composer.

April

• April 2: Apostolos Tegopoulos, film director

June

• June 4: Sotiris Moustakas, actor
• June 18: Apostolos Glezos, footballer

July

• July 7: Aristarchos Fountoukidis, footballer

September

• September 5: Nikos Nikolaidis, film director
• September 9: Helmut Senekowitsch, football coach