IMAGE: Statue of Alexandros Karamanlakis (Source: www.findagrave.com) 1912: Pilot Alexandros Karamanlakis dies in a plane crash in the Corinthian Gulf. He is the first to die in a crash in Greek aviation

IMAGE: Portrait of Rigas Velestinlis (Source: 1798: Rigas Feraios (Velestinlis), Greek poet, political thinker, revolutionary, and pioneer of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, is strangled to death while

1821: Greek revolutionaries defeat the Ottomans in the battle of Hani of Gravias. 1944: Greek athlete Themistoklis Diakidis dies. 1945: End of World War II in Europe. 1980: Georgios Rallis is elected new

1916: The National Bank of Greece announces that loans will also be granted to women. 1919: Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the 21st April military regime is born. 1980: Konstantinos Karamanlis is elected

1827: Georgios Karaiskakis dies, on his nameday, from a wound sustained one day earlier. 1998: Former President of the Hellenic Republic, Konstantinos Karamanlis dies. 2010: George Papandreou asks for