2017 in Greece
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Events in the year 2017 in Greece.
Incumbents
Events
- Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team.[1]
January
May
- 13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house.[4][5]
- 13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest.[6]
- 18 May - UPSat is deployed from the International Space Station, making it the first satellite manufactured in Greece to get into orbit.[7]
June
- 12 June – The 6.3 Mw Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.
July
- 21 July – The 6.6 Mw Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480.[8]
September
- 9 September - The Greek FIBA team reaches the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, losing to Russia 69-74 in the process.[9]
November
- The Greek association football team reaches the playoffs of FIFA World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia 4-1 on aggregate in the process.[10]
- 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three.[11][12]
December
- December – Rebetiko, a Greek music genre, is added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.[13]
Deaths
- 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942).[14]
- 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913)
- 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954).[15]
- 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918).[16]
- 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer (b. 1944)
- 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1929).[17]
- 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP (b. 1932).[18]