Stefanos Stefanopoulos [SEP] position held
Stefanos Stefanopoulos
Stefanos Stefanopoulos (, 3 July 1898, Pyrgos, Elis – 4 October 1982, Athens) was a Greek politician, and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1965 to 1966.
He was a moderate conservative, and served as a cabinet member during Alexandros Papagos' government. He even served as acting Prime Minister for a day after the latter's death on 4 October 1955.
On 17 September 1965, he became Prime Minister of Greece during the period of the "Apostasia", supported by
by King Constantine II, the day after the collapse of the government of Prime Minister Stefanos Stefanopoulos. Two hours later, the King addressed his subjects by radio and announced that new elections for Parliament would be held in May.
- On the eve of the United Kingdom's trade ban with Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith declared that Rhodesia had become an independent republic by operation of the UN Security Council's vote for sanctions. "We are ipso facto in a position that we are no longer under the control of Britain,