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A failed assassination attempt against Papadopoulos was perpetrated by Alexandros Panagoulis in the morning of 13 August 1968, when Papadopoulos was driven from his summer residence in Lagonisi to Athens, escorted by his personal security motorcycles and cars. Panagoulis ignited a bomb at a point of the coastal road where the limousine carrying ...
George Papadopoulos was born August 19, 1987, at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [14] to Greek immigrants parents originally from Thessaloniki. [15] [16] His father, Antonis, was heavily involved in the local politics of the Greek-American community and is the former president of the Pan-Macedonian Union of the United States. [17]
Papadopoulos (Greek: Παπαδοπουλος) is a Greek food company mostly known for its biscuits. The company was founded in 1922 in Athens , but it has its origins in 1916 Istanbul with Evangelos Papadopoulos and his family.
The junta on trial. Ioannidis standing up while Papadopoulos, Makarezos and Pattakos watch the proceedings from the front row. The Greek junta trials (Greek: Οι Δίκες της Χούντας translated as: The Τrials of the Junta) were the court trials involving members of the military junta that ruled Greece from 21 April 1967 to 23 July 1974.
Papadopoulos (Greek: Παπαδόπουλος, IPA: [papaˈðopulos]; meaning "son of a priest") is the most common Greek surname. It is used in Greece, Cyprus and countries of the Greek diaspora as well, such as the USA, United Kingdom, Australia and Scandinavian countries.
The Greek junta was so impressed with the manner in which their Italian counterparts were paving the way toward an Italian coup d'état that, on 15 May 1969, Papadopoulos sent them a congratulatory message stating that "His Excellency the Prime Minister notes that the efforts that have been undertaken by the Greek National government in Italy ...
The James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur fled Vietnam at 13 and created a legacy of flavor, fire, and innovative fine dining.
Given that the main engineer of the transition, Papadopoulos, did not have much experience in democratic transitions, [11] his liberalisation plan was derailed as students, and, later, workers, used the liberalisation to start their uprising, which forced the Papadopoulos regime to clamp-down hard on the protests, a move that discredited the ...