ΒΗΜΑ History

With 34 dead and 125 injured, the railway accident that took place on September 30, 1968 was one of the bloodiest in Greek history.

In 27 September 1831, Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Governor of Greece and a figure who had contributed enormously to the Greek people’s struggle for freedom and independence, was assassinated in Nafplio by Konstantinos and Georgios Mavromichalis. As Kostas Kairofylas relates in the Eleftheron Vima of 25 September 1931: ‘On the evening of 26 September 1831, […]