May 31

Events

• 1915: Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party wins 185 parliamentary seats (out of 316) in the national elections.
• 1924: Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas are promoted to the rank of Lt. General for their role in bringing down the Laiko Komma government after the Asia Minor Disaster
• 1957: Former ELAS commander Stefanos Sarafis is killed by a car driven by a US NCO. EDA calls it premeditated murder.
• 1987: The first private radio station Athena 9,84 FM began broadcasting.

Sports

• 1981: PAOK coach Gyula Lorant suffers a heart attack during a football match.
• 1995: Aris Vovos with his co-driver Kostas Stefanis win the 42nd Acropolis Rally with a Lancia Delta HF Integrale. It is the first time in the last 40 years that a Greek crew wins the Acropolis Rally after Johnny Pesmatzoglou in 1955 with an Opel Kapitan
• 1998: Greece U21 rank 2nd after losing to Spain 1-0 in the final of European Football Championship.

Births

• 1942: Minos Kyriakou, businessman
• 1954: Thomas Mavros, footballer

Deaths

• 1954: Antonis Benakis, art collector
• 1957: Stefanos Sarafis, commander of ELAS during the Axis occupation.