1963

Events

May 27: Grigoris Lambrakis, a leftist politician is assassinated in Thessaloniki

November 3: Georgios Papandreou's political party, Center Union, emerges the winner in the national elections held, and forms a minority government with 42.2% of the votes.
November 30: Archbishop Makarios III proposes 13 amendments to the constitution of Cyprus.

December 3 : Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou announces the government's plan to distribute free books to all elementary and highschool students.
December 9: Constantine Karamanlis resigns from the leadership of his party, National Radical Union (ERE), and leaves for an 11 year self-imposed exile to Paris, France.
December 27: Student rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki in favor of a union between Greece and Cyprus.