November 11

Events

1867: King George I arrives in Greece with his new bride Princess Olga of Russia, on board the steamship "Messolonghi".
1893: Charilaos Trikoupis forms a government.
1912: Greek forces enter Kastoria during the First Balkan War.
1942: Greeks in Istanbul are subjected to the Varlik Vergisi by the Turkish Parliament.
1950: A squadron of seven Greek Royal Airforce transport planes leave for the Korean War.
2007: George Papandreou clinches a landslide re-election, from the first round, in the PASOK party leadership internal election. Papandreou receives 60.03 percent, his main challenger, Evangelos Venizelos, only 33.54 percent. A third candidate, Costas Skandalidis, trails with 6.28 percent.
2011: Economist, Lucas Papademos, forms a government.