1967

Events

April

• April 21: A military Junta, led by George Papadopoulos, assumes power in Greece after a nearly bloodless coup d'etat.

May

• May 1: Footballer Mimis Domazos marries popular singer Vicky Moscholiou.
• May 14: Palace Priest Hieronymus is elected Archbishop of Athens.

August

• August 7: Christos Papanikolaou smashes the Greek record in decathlon with 6.073 points.
• August 21: Composer/politician Mikis Theodorakis is arrested by the military government of Greece. He will spend the next five months in prison.

November

• November 2: The first, for Greece, open heart surgery procedure is successfully performed at Evangelismos Hospital in Athens

December

• December 13: King Constantine II flees Greece after an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Junta.

Births

February

• February 26: Rainer Rauffmann, German-Cypriot footballer

May

• May 20: Former Crown Prince Pavlos

December

• December 17: Mario Frangoulis, tenor opera singer

Deaths

• March 10: Giorgos Batis, rebetiko composer