August 16

Events

• 1960: Cyprus is officially proclaimed a republic with Archbishop Makarios III as president and Dr Fazil Kucuk as vice-president.
• 1974: Morphou is occupied by Turkish troops, its inhabitants flee.
• 1974: Andreas Papandreou returns to Greece.

Sports

• 1966: Giorgos Koudas debuts with Olympiakos in a pre-season friendly. Koudas will return to PAOK in 1967 without having played a single competitive game for Olympiakos.
• [[2004} Nikos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis win the gold medal, the first for Greece in the Athens Olympic Games, in the 3m platform synchronized diving

Births

• 1935: Andreas Stamatiadis, footballer.

Deaths

• 1971: Spyros Skouras, Greek-American President of 20th Century Fox.
• 2005: Viki Moscholiou, music performer