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Events
- 1912: Greek forces enter Veria and Katerini
- 1954: US soldiers man the first American base on Greek soil in Heraklio, Crete.
- 1994: Dimitris Avramopoulos is elected Mayor of Athens. Stelios Logothetis is elected in Piraeus and Konstantinos Kosmopoulos in Thessaloniki.
Sports
- 1968: In the Olympic Games of Mexico City, pole vaulter Christos Papanikolaou, breaks the Greek record with a jump of 5.35m but fails to win a medal as he finishes 4th.
- 1999: Demosthenes Tampakos wins bronze in the men's rings at the 34th Gymnastics World Championships of China.
- 2000: The new Euroleague Championship kicks off as Real Madrid defeat Olympiakos 75-73 in its inaugural game.
- 2012: Kostas Katsouranis earns his 100th cap as Greece defeat Slovakia 1-0 in Bratislava.
Deaths
- 2010: Yiannis Dalianidis, filmmaker, director
- 2026: Giorgos Vardinoyiannis, president of Panathinaikos FC
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