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*[[August 15]]: General [[Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos]] | *[[August 15]]: General [[Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos]] | ||
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[[Category:1989]] | [[Category:1989]] |
Revision as of 09:50, July 30, 2007
Contents
Events
March
- March 3: The general manager of Levadiakos, Kalomiris, is caught in the attempt to bribe the referee for the match between Levadiakos and Larisa.
April
- April 14: It is discovered that Giorgos Koskotas hid $8 million of embezzled funds into secret Swiss bank accounts.
July
- July 2: Tzannis Tzannetakis is sworn in as Prime Minister heading a curious coalition of conservatives and communists.
- July 14: PM Andreas Papandreou weds stewardess Dimitra Liani.
August
- August 2: Former Panathinaikos footballer, Lakis Sofianos, is found hanged in his prison cell.
- August 3: A Shorts 330 of the Olympic Airways (now Olympic Airlines) crashes near Samos Airport; 31 passengers die.
September
- September 26: MP Pavlos Bakoyiannis is slain outside his office by members of the Revolutionary Organisation 17 November.
October
- October 12: US Ambassador Michael Sotirchos meets with Communist politicians Charilaos Florakis and Leonidas Kyrkos.
November
- November 17: Riots take place in Athens on the 16th anniversary of the attack on the Athens Polytechnic Institute: One student is killed and dozens are injured as protesters sought to march on the embassy of the USA
- November 23: The political parties of PASOK, New Democracy and Synaspismos agree to support Xenophon Zolotas for Prime Minister at head of a non-party administration until fresh elections could be held.
December
- December 17: Polish forward Krzysztof Warzycha plays his first game in a Panathinaikos jersey against AEK
Deaths
January
- January 20: Sir John Harding, former military governor of Cyprus
April
- April 2: Manolis Angelopoulos, singer
July
- July 20: Yiannis Tsarouchis, painter
August
- August 2: Lakis Sofianos, former Panathinaikos footballer (suicide)
- August 15: General Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos