Greek journalist and politician

Georgios Karatzaferis

Georgios Karatzaferis is a Greek politician, a former member of the Hellenic Parliament and the former president of the Popular Orthodox Rally. Previously, Karatzaferis was a member of parliament of the liberal-conservative New Democracy party. He is a former Member of the European Parliament and former vice-president of the Independence and Democracy group. The Popular Orthodox Rally's views, ideas, and electoral campaigns were often broadcast and promoted by the relatively minor private Greek TV channel TeleAsty and the party's weekly newspaper, A1, both which he founded.

Born

1947

August 11

Died

Living

Era

1940s

Country

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Georgios, in brief

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Key dates

1947 Born

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-3114 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
-2492 Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106 The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
117 Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after Trajan's death.

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The world in 1947

When Georgios arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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