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*[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]] and [[Andreas Dimitriou]] become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the [[EOKA]] campaign. | *[[May 10]]: [[Michalis Karaolis]] and [[Andreas Dimitriou]] become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the [[EOKA]] campaign. | ||
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*[[June 10]]: The [[Lycabettus]] funicular came into operation | *[[June 10]]: The [[Lycabettus]] funicular came into operation | ||
Revision as of 13:51, March 13, 2007
Contents
Events
January
- January 9: EOKA fighter, Kyriakos Matsis, is arrested, along with his brother Yiannakis, by the British.
February
- February 7: Student Petros Yiallouros, a member of ANE, is slain during a protest in Cyprus.
- February 29: Lina Tsaldari becomes the first woman Cabinet member. She is the widow of former PM Panagis Tsaldaris.
March
- March 4: 17-year old EOKA fighter, Giorgos Charalambous, is killed in Limassol.
April
- April 18: Maria Desylla becomes the first woman elected mayor of a Greek city (Kerkyra).
May
- May 9: A huge protest in Athens, over the executions of Michalis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou, turns bloody as four protesters are killed and 164 are injured.
- May 10: Michalis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou become the first two Greek-Cypriots executed by the British during the EOKA campaign.
June
- June 10: The Lycabettus funicular came into operation
July
- July 9: A major earthquake (7.3 on the Richter scale) strikes Santorini resulting in 53 deaths and more than 100 injuries.
August
- August 10: Phaedon Mattheou scores a personal record of 28 points against Syria (94-75) at Cairo for the pre-olympic tournament. Mattheou will score a total of 529 points in 44 matches with the national basketball team. In this match Vangelis Nikitopoulos will play for the second and last time in his career.
December
- December 18: Evagoras Pallikaridis is arrested in Cyprus by the British.
Births
September
- September 14: Costas Karamanlis, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic
October
- October 18: Giorgos Kimoulis, actor
- October 27: Babis Tsertos, musician, performer of traditional, folk and rebetiko songs
November
- November 13: Anna Verouli, athlete.
Deaths
- February 23: Marika Ninou, singer.
