2017 in Greece

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Events in the year 2017 in Greece.

Incumbents

• President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras

Events

• 13 May – Three people are killed when a train derails in Adendro and hits a house.
• 12 June – The 6.3 M_w Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.
• 21 July – The 6.6 M_w Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480+.
• 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.

Deaths

• 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942).^[1]
• 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913)
• 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954).^[2]
• 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918).^[3]
• 5 June – Giorgos Masadis, footballer (b. 1944)

References