1976
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Events
May
- May 6: Vasilis Chatzipanagis plays wearing the Greek National Football Team shirt in a friendly game against Poland - Greece wins 1-0. This was his one and only game playing for Greece.
- May 23: After defeating Ethnikos Piraeus 4-0 away, PAOK win their first ever football championship.
June
- June 9: Vasilis Chatzipanagis scores for Iraklis directly from the corner kick defeating Olympiacos with 3-1. "Vasia" will score in the 1980s a total of 6 goals from the corner point.
July
- July 10: Greek Cypriot Kostas Georgiou, better known as "Colonel Callan", is executed by a firing squad for war crimes during the Angolan civil war.
November
- November 23: An Olympic Airlines VS-11 plane crashes near Kozani with 46 passengers and a crew of four on board. There are no survivors.
December
- December 14: The terrorist group 17 November assassinates Evangelos Mallios, a police officer who had been discharged after torturing prisoners during the Junta.
Births
November
- November 7: Mark Philippoussis, Greek Australian tennis player