27-year reign of fear

November 17th, 1973 - The group is named after the day a right-wing military junta, which ruled from 1967-74, sent tanks into…

November 17th, 1973 - The group is named after the day a right-wing military junta, which ruled from 1967-74, sent tanks into the Athens Polytechnic School to crush a student revolt, killing at least 13 students.

December 23rd, 1975 - November 17 emerges with shooting dead of American Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens.

December 14th, 1976 - Evangelos Mallios, a former officer accused of torture under the military junta, is shot dead.

January 16th, 1980 - The deputy head of the Greek riot police, Pandelis Petrou, and his driver are shot dead.

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November 15th, 1983 - US military attache George Tsantes and his driver shot dead.

April 3rd, 1984 -- US flight sergeant Robert Chant is shot near a US military base. He dies later.

December 24th, 1984 - Policeman Christos Matis is gunned down during one of the group's bank robberies in Athens.

February 21st, 1985 - Newspaper publisher Nikos Momferatos and his driver shot dead in Athens.

November 26th, 1985 - Policeman Nikos Georgakopoulos is killed when a police riot squad bus is blown up in central Athens.

April 8th, 1986 - Industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos killed in Athens.

March 1st, 1988 - Industrialist Alexandros Athanasiadis is killed.

June 28th, 1988 - US naval attache Capt William Nordeen is killed by bomb in northern Athens.

January 10th, 1989 - Prosecutor Costas Androulidakis is shot in Athens and dies five weeks later.

September 26th, 1989 - New Democracy deputy Pavlos Bakoyiannis is shot dead at the entrance to his office in Athens.

March 12th, 1991 - US air force sergeant Ronald Stewart is killed by a bomb in protest against US involvement in the Gulf War.

October 7th, 1991 - The Turkish deputy press attache, Cetin Gorgu, is shot dead in his car outside his home.

July 14th, 1992 - The group fires a rocket at the car of finance minister Ioannis Paleokrassas in central Athens. He survives but a passer-by is killed.

January 24th, 1994 - Former National Bank of Greece governor Michalis Vranopoulos is gunned down and his driver-bodyguard wounded in central Athens.

July 4th, 1994 - Turkish diplomat Omer Haluk Sipahioglu is shot dead outside his coastal home.

May 28th, 1997 - Shipowner Costis Peratikos is killed.

June 8th, 2000 - British defence attache Brig Stephen Saunders is shot and killed in his car.

June 30th, 2002 - November 17 suspect Savvas Xiros is injured in a botched bomb attack in Piraeus. Police find an apartment full of weapons and November 17 paraphernalia.

July 4th - Greek police discover the main November 17 hideout.

July 17th - Police detain Alexandros Giotopoulos on the remote island of Lipsi as the possible leader of November 17.

July 18th - Greece charges the first three November 17 suspects ever captured.

January 6th, 2003 - Anestis Papanastasiou, the last of a total of 19 suspected guerrillas, is arrested and later charged with membership of the radical leftist band.

March 3rd - The trial of 19 suspects opens. The next day Giotopoulos pleads not guilty to charges against him. He is charged with 963 crimes, including designing and planning every single November 17 attack.

December 8th - A court convicts two men as the chief assassin and the mastermind of November 17. Thirteen others are convicted of crimes ranging from murder and attempted murder to possession of weapons and explosives and setting up and membership in a criminal organisation. Four defendants are found not guilty.