2012 Event As German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece, an estimated 25,000 protest in Athens 2009 Event A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by 1997 Event Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome and Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site 1993 Event "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 37 performances 1993 Event "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances 1988 Event Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens 1987 Death Glenway Wescott, U.S. writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85 1986 Event 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece 1984 Death Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1983 Event Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens 1978 Birthday Irene Skliva, born in Athens, Greece, Miss World 1996 1975 Death Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead 1975 Event Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens 1973 Event Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens 1973 Event Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55 1971 Event Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens 1969 Event Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed 1968 Event Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 1968 Birthday Suzi Simpson, Athens Greece, playmate, Jan, 1992 1968 Birthday Horst Skoff, born in Klagenfurt, Austria, professional tennis player, won top-level singles title in Athens in 1989, ranked 18th in world rankings for singles, 70th for doubles 1966 Birthday Gillian Bonner, Athens Georgia, playmate, Apr, 1996 1963 Event WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting 1962 Birthday Kim Shipman, born in Athens, Pennsylvania, LPGA golfer, 1995 LPGA Corning Classic-25th 1961 Birthday Cindy Mackey, born in Athens, Georgia, LPGA golfer, 1986 MasterCard International Pro-Am 1959 Birthday Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art 1957 Birthday Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist, B-52's-Love Shack 1953 Birthday Kim Basinger, Athens, Georgia, actress, 9 Weeks, Batman 1953 Birthday Julian Keith Strickland, Athens, Georgia, drummer, B-52's-Rock Lobster 1953 Birthday Ricky Wilson, born in Athens, Georgia, rock guitarist, B-52's-Love Shack 1948 Death 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1947 Event SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 1947 Event Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard 1946 Event Greek king George II back in Athens 1945 Birthday Leo Kottke, born in Athens, Georgia, guitarist, Ice Water, Greenhouse 1944 Event British troops march into Athens 1944 Event German army retreats from Athens 1944 Event Race riots in Athens Alabama 1944 Birthday Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64 1944 Event 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz 1941 Event German troops occupy Athens Greece 1941 Event 100 German bombers attack Athens 1929 Birthday Sid Kroft, born in Athens, Greece, puppeteer, Barbara Mandrell Show 1925 Birthday Melina Mercouri, Athens Greece, actress/politician, Never on a Sunday 1921 Birthday Alexander Harman, born in Athens, West Virginia, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979 1906 Event 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 1906 Event 10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece 1906 Event 3rd modern Olympic games opens in Athens 1901 Birthday Glenway Wescott, U.S. writer, Apartment in Athens 1896 Event 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 1896 Event Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens) 1896 Event 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece, American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history 1896 Event 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens 1896 Event Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece 1896 Birthday Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer 1886 Birthday Crane Wilbur, Athens, New York, dir/writer, Bat, Canon City, Yellow Cargo 1884 Birthday Charles Winninger, Athens Wisconsin, actor, Charlie Farrell Show 1861 Birthday French Gailliard, Belgian painter, Zeustempel in Athens 1827 Event Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ 1808 Event 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 1804 Event 1st U.S. land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered 1785 Event 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia 1687 Event Venetians take Athens from the Turks 1687 Event Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians 1483 Birthday Raphael, born in Urbino, Italy, painter, School of Athens 1356 Death Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies 427 Birthday Plato, born in Athens, Greece, writer, philosopher, mathematician, laid foundations of natural philosophy, science, Western philosophy 413 Death Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57
