Difference between revisions of "1989"

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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 14: It is discovered that Giorgos Koskotas hid $8 million of embezzled funds into secret Swiss bank accounts.

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 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 1: Takis Michailidis, former sports editor in various athletic newspapers and founder member of PSAT, drowns in Loutraki.
September 26: MP Pavlos Bakoyiannis is slain outside his office by members of the Revolutionary Organisation 17 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 17: Polish forward Krzysztof Warzycha plays his first game in a Panathinaikos jersey against AEK

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 ===September===
+*[[September 1]]: Takis Michailidis, former sports editor in various athletic newspapers and founder member of [[PSAT]], drowns in [[Loutraki]].
 *[[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]].