Andreas Papandreou, the long-serving Prime Minister of Greece, officially resigned from his position due to significant health complications.
Following his resignation, a new government was formed under the leadership of Costas Simitis, marking a significant transition in Greek political leadership.
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Andreas Papandreou (who was born February 5, 1919, Chios, Greece anddied June 23, 1996, Ekáli, near Athens) was a politician and educator who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and from 1993 to 1996.
Also on this day, Petro Yukhymovych Shelest died. He was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972.
Ideologically a social moderate and a national communist, he oversaw a widespread liberalisation of Ukrainian society as part of the Khrushchev Thaw and Sixtier movement that led to increased visibility of the Ukrainian language and culture in public life.