March 7

Events

961: Nicephorus Phocas liberates Crete from the Saracens.
1907: Marinos Antypas, an advocate of agrarian reform, is assassinated in Thessaly.
1941: The first British and New Zealand land troops arrive in Greece as a German attack is deemed imminent.
1945: Prime Minister Nikolaos Plastiras rules out Communists for his cabinet.
1948: The Dodecanese officially become part of Greece.
1964: Fighting breaks out in Mallia, Lemesos province, Cyprus between Cypriot National Guardsmen and Turkish Cypriot irregulars.
2004: Costas Karamanlis is elected Greek Prime Minister over Giorgos Papandreou. Karamanlis' New Democracy Party receives 45.36% of the vote whereas Papandreou's PASOK receives 40.55%. The Communist KKE is third with a 5.90% share of the vote.

2004: Basketball coach Yiannis Ioannidis and sports journalist Dimitris Konstantaras are elected to the Greek Parliament.
2012: APOEL become the first Cypriot club to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions' League after eliminating Lyon 4-3 on penalties. The regulation-time score was 1-0 which equalised the 0-1 loss in France.