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Events in the year 2017 in Greece .

Incumbents [ edit ]

• President : Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Prime Minister : Alexis Tsipras

Events [ edit ]

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• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]