Phantis:Selected anniversaries/October 29
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- 1918: The General Labor Union of Greece (GSEE, Greek:ΓΣΕΕ) is established
- 1956: Maria Callas debuts at the Metropolitan Opera of New York singing Bellini's "Norma".
- 1959: An Olympic Airways Douglas Aircraft Company DC-3 crashes near Athens. All 18 passengers and crew members perish.
- 1988:The scandal with George Koskotas surfaces when then Minister of Education, Giorgos Papandreou, accuses Olympiakos' president of illegal transactions with Merril Lynch
- Births:
- Thrasivoulos Zaimis (1822), politician, Prime Minister; Giorgos Donis (1969), football player and coach
- Deaths: Mimis Fotopoulos (1986), actor
Recent days: October 28 - October 27