January 4

Events

• 1887: Charilaos Trikoupis wins the national elections in Greece.
• 1924: Eleftherios Venizelos returns to Athens after 38 months of exile.
• 1930: The Agrarian Bank of Greece commences operations under Konstantinos Gontikas.
• 1956: Newly-appointed PM, Constantine Karamanlis, forms a new party called the National Radical Union (ERE).

Sports

• 1941: Swimmer Georgios Ivanof of Iraklis Salonica, is executed during the German occupation. To honor his memory the club names its basketball court to Ivanofio (Ιβανόφειο) after him.
• 1976: PAOK thrash Olympiakos 4-0 at Karaiskaki Stadium. Goals scored by Koudas (2), Terzanidis and Guerino.

Births

• 1969: Kostas Frantzeskos, footballer.

Deaths

• 1901: Nikolaos Gyzis, painter.
• 2000: Spiros Markezinis, economist, politician and historian