1968
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Events
January
- January 30: Junta-appointed Secretary General of Athletics, Lt. Col. Kostas Aslanidis, blasts corruption in football in a speech in Thessaloniki. He alleges that Panathinaikos fixed games, that footballers Tzekos Ballarinis and Kostas Vallianos threw games for money and that several referees and linesmen had been paid off.
March
- March 5: The National Route between Larisa and Thessaloniki is completed.
April
- April 4: In the Panathenaic Stadium, before 80,000 fans, AEK defeat Slavia Prague 89-82 and win the European Cup-winners Cup of Basketball.
July
- July 31: American chess Grandmaster Bobby Fisher plays five simultaneous games in Athens against Greek chess masters. He wins four - against Apostolopoulos, Christos Kokkoris, Ornithopoulos and Lazaros Vyzantiadis - and draws against Giorgos Trikaliotis.
August
- August 13: Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate Dictator George Papadopoulos. The attempt fails.
October
- October 20: Aristotle Onassis marries Jackie Kennedy at island of Skorpios.
- October 27: Goalkeeper Stelios Serafeidis is sent off in an Olympiakos - AEK derby. He is replaced by...forward Mimis Papaioannou who makes the save of the match in the 89th minute to preserve a 3-2 AEK victory.
November
- November 3: The funeral for Georgios Papandreou turns into a protest against the military government of Georgios Papadopoulos
Births
June
- June 9: Niki Bakogianni, female athlete.
October
- October 10: Marinos Ouzounidis, football player and coach
Deaths
July
- July 14 : Ilias Tsirimokos, politician, briefly Prime Minister of Greece
November
- November 1 : Georgios Papandreou, politician, Prime Minister of Greece