| 5/1/2022 | Singer Sakis Papanikolaou,the singing accompaniment of the great team of Panathinaikos on its way to the Wembley final in 1971, dies at the age of 92. He collaborated with most Greek composers and conductors such as George Mouzakis, Manolis Chiotis, Mimis Plessas, George Katsaros, Costas Giannidis, George Theodosiadis, Zak Iakovidis, Takis Athinaios, George Mitsakis, Costas Hatzis, Haris Andreadis and many others. |
| 5/1/2014 | Portuguese football forward Eusébio (da Silva Ferreira) dies of heart failure at his home at the age of 71 years. Nicknamed the Black Panther, he is considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. During his professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 matches. He played for Benfica for 15 out of his 22 years as a footballer winning eleven Primeira Liga titles, five Taça de Portugal titles, a European Cup (1961–62) and helped them reach three additional European Cup finals (1963, 1965, 1968). He was the European Cup top scorer in 1964–65, 1965–66 and 1967–68. He won the Ballon d'Or award for European footballer of the year in 1965, was the top goal scorer of the 1966 World Cup with nine goals helping Portugal to reach the third place. |
| 5/1/2009 | Vangelis Depastas, former athlete of Panionios, dies of heart attack at the age of 77 years. We had won gold medals in 800m and 1500 at the Athens Balkan Games in 1957, and was a protagonist of the Mediterranean and European Games by winning many silver and bronze medals. He broke the greek national record in 800m eight times and in 1500m twice. The stadium in Schimandari was named after him. |
| 5/1/1989 | ESPN cable network receive television rights to 175 major league baseball games a year for $400 million |
| 5/1/1988 | Utah Jazz, Pete Maravich, known as “Pistol Pete”, dies of a heart attack at the age of 40. Three years before, on 14/12/1985, Utah Jazz retired his shirt with number 7, and three years later, in 1991, Bob Dylan will write “Dignity” inspired by the player’s life |
| 5/1/1984 | The captain of the Australian cricket team, Greg Chappell, plays his last game, against Pakistan in Sydney, scoring 182 runs. In his career, he played in 87 Tests, amassed 7110 runs at an average of 53.86 with 24 centuries |
| 5/1/1971 | The first One Day International (ODI) takes place in Melbourne Cricket Ground. The match is between Australia and England and ODI matches will gradually become more popular than Test matches. The term “test” is thought to arise from the idea that the matches are a “test of strength” between the sides involved and have been first played in 1861-62, to describe an English team that toured Australia during that season |
| 5/1/1971 | Harlem Globetrotters loose to N.J. Reds by 100-99, ending a series of 2495 wins |
| 5/1/1948 | Warner Bros present their first coloured TV movie about Rose Bowl |
| 5/1/1941 | A Greek Army football team plays against an English one (4-2) at Leoforos. Two months later, Panathinaikos face a team of English aviators (6-2). The English took these initiatives aiming to reinforce the ties with the Greek people |
| 5/1/1934 | National and American baseball leagues select a uniform-size ball. It is the first time in 33 years that both leagues use the same size ball |
| 5/1/1930 | Doctor Christos Koryllos dies at the age of 88. He was the founder (1891) and first president of Panahaikos Gymnastic Club, one of the oldest clubs in Greece. In 1923, the club was merged with the two year younger Gymanstiki Eteria to create Panahaiki |
| 5/1/1914 | Henry Ford, the owner of Ford Company, and one of the richest men in the world, announces his five-dollar day program, according to which a workday is reduced in length from 9 to 8 hours and the minimum daily pay is raised from $2.34 to $5 for qualifying workers. The term “Fordism” was given to the methods applied by his industry during the period between the two World Wars and involved the improvement of “mass production” methods |
| 5/1/1912 | First US Hockey Association game in Victoria |
| 5/1/1903 | Representatives of American and National leagues meet for the first time. National proposes a league of 12 teams, but American League rejects it |
