August 22

Events

• 1686: Venetian General Francesco Morosini takes Nafplio from the Turks.
• 1939: The volcano at Santorini erupts.
• 1964: PM Georgios Papandreou rejects the Acheson Plan for Cyprus.
• 2006: Major fires break out in Chalkidiki prefecture.
• 2009: More than 70 wildfires break out throughout Greece.

Sports

• 1950: Jason Zirganos swims across the English Channel in 16hrs 19mins.
• 1999: Katerina Thanou breaks the women's Greek record in the 100m with 10.83 at the Sevilla World Championships.
• 2004: Fani Halkia sets a new Olympic record in the 400m hurdles semi-finals with 52.77.
• 2004: Demosthenes Tambakos wins the gold medal with 9,862 points in the rings copetition at the Athens Olympic Games
• 2007: 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.

Births

• 1932:Andreas Voutsinas, actor, drama coach and stage director

Deaths

• 1976: Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist.
• 1935: Pavlos Kountouriotis, Admiral, President of Greece
• 2010: Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav soccer legend (coached Panathinaikos and Olympiakos in the 1960s - early 1970s)